Cletus Van Damme
Previously known as Cheesney Hawks
- Location
- Out in the sticks...
I've been on the Norwegian Epic, it was huge. My parents paid for it otherwise I don't think it's what I'd do. It's not a cheap cruise line, so I believe.
The food was really good, really good. The drinks are extortion, so you need a drinks package. We had a cabin that was on the side of the ship, I'd of hated a cheaper cabin where I couldn't sit on the balcony looking at the sea, was a great place to sit with a drink.
The things I didn't like is that getting off the thing at ports was a real pain due to the sheer volume of passengers. If you didn't pay really extortionate fees for excursions, you just didn't really have a clue where you were going (to be expected). I really liked Lisbon though, gorgeous city, except being approached by drug dealers constantly. The entertainment on the ship was pretty poor, just really not my thing at all. The ship was really all centered around a huge casino, which again is not my thing, but most of the passengers were from the USA, whom love casino's. Just a small amount of the Americans disgusted me in the way that they talked to the staff like they were crap, in a really loud manner, just really not my thing at all. I found the staff to be really polite and helpful in every respect. I can't stand t*ssers that talk to staff like that. When you chatted to the staff, most were from the Philippines, very humble, with familes back home, making money to send home to support them.
I went on a Med cruise starting at Barcelona finishing in Southampton, at the start of September. It was red hot in the med, but once it was coming home in the Atlantic, it was pretty cold. You couldn't really sunbathe on the deck or go in the pools, I was really bored. The sea was also rough in the Atlantic. Despite being a huge ship it was constantly moving from side to side.
Summing up: I'd do it again maybe, on a much smaller ship. Just too many people for my liking, hard work disembarking the ship at ports. I'd also imagine that smaller ships can visit different ports, that are possibly more interesting. The size of these goliath ships, restricts where they can dock. Everything is about getting money out of you. I guess it's what to expect, just wish it was a bit more reasonably/realistically priced..
It's something I'll probably do when again when I'm quite a bit older, I'm 51 now. If I'm still alive then, I'll maybe do it again.
The food was really good, really good. The drinks are extortion, so you need a drinks package. We had a cabin that was on the side of the ship, I'd of hated a cheaper cabin where I couldn't sit on the balcony looking at the sea, was a great place to sit with a drink.
The things I didn't like is that getting off the thing at ports was a real pain due to the sheer volume of passengers. If you didn't pay really extortionate fees for excursions, you just didn't really have a clue where you were going (to be expected). I really liked Lisbon though, gorgeous city, except being approached by drug dealers constantly. The entertainment on the ship was pretty poor, just really not my thing at all. The ship was really all centered around a huge casino, which again is not my thing, but most of the passengers were from the USA, whom love casino's. Just a small amount of the Americans disgusted me in the way that they talked to the staff like they were crap, in a really loud manner, just really not my thing at all. I found the staff to be really polite and helpful in every respect. I can't stand t*ssers that talk to staff like that. When you chatted to the staff, most were from the Philippines, very humble, with familes back home, making money to send home to support them.
I went on a Med cruise starting at Barcelona finishing in Southampton, at the start of September. It was red hot in the med, but once it was coming home in the Atlantic, it was pretty cold. You couldn't really sunbathe on the deck or go in the pools, I was really bored. The sea was also rough in the Atlantic. Despite being a huge ship it was constantly moving from side to side.
Summing up: I'd do it again maybe, on a much smaller ship. Just too many people for my liking, hard work disembarking the ship at ports. I'd also imagine that smaller ships can visit different ports, that are possibly more interesting. The size of these goliath ships, restricts where they can dock. Everything is about getting money out of you. I guess it's what to expect, just wish it was a bit more reasonably/realistically priced..
It's something I'll probably do when again when I'm quite a bit older, I'm 51 now. If I'm still alive then, I'll maybe do it again.
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