My cabin was in the middle between the elevators and the panoramic/big elevators. So no long walk trough the straight hallway.
But the ship is really big and there are long walks from the aft to the front of the ship. And the elevator area and the elevators are sometimes really crowded especially in the morning on port days in the med. I prefer smaller ships with a better layout and less pax, but the World Europa is the only ship in the med in wintertime, that sails from Genova on a Sunday, I hope for 2026 that there will be an other ship in the med.

8 hours ago, Mezqal said:

I've been aboard, so here we go.... took the pic from

@Essiesmom thx

Yes there are the elevators in the back of the world europa. But they are only from the World Promenade to the buffet I think, not to the sun deck? My cabin was  also in this section and I always used the bigger Lift section and the Panoramic lift.

On the image you see the elevators near the orange-pink lights.

Yes, this status match program is so stupid, so a lot of people are diamond on her first cruise and don't unterstand how it works with the perks. On US Cruises are so much diamond people from the status match, in Europe there are all experienced MSC Cruisers. On my last Lirica Cruise there were only 15 diamond members, the captain and cruise director have time to speak with all guests and its really relaxing, on US Cruises i don't join the diamond party any more, to much people. Our whole family ist diamond with multiple times 10 000 points. So a new real diamond plus level, with no status match,  will be a good idea.

Other cruise line do not status match, its only MSC.

Please don't wear shorts for Dinner in a YC Restaurant in Europe. European People dress more up than Americans. Sometime they send you back to your cabin to change clothes, especially for a gala/elegant night.

On 5/10/2024 at 4:04 AM, KeepCalmBearOn said:

 

If you mean you were on the POA, it is not anything like and other NCL ship, it is a world unto itself.

Are you sure, all NCL Ships have freestyle cruising with no formal evenings and more or less no dress codes. We like to dress up, eat in a speciality restaurant in normal clothes and not in shorts and flip-flops and things like that.

There were a lot of people on the first NCL Cruise on the POA and a lot of them said, never ever NCL! The service was really bad, never saw a thing like that, it was more special than expected. And we had a big itinerary change with a really bad communication from NCL to the pax on the ship, that was not good and the compensation for that was really laughable. 
It was your first and last NCL cruise and we hope there will be some other ships in Hawaii with a only Hawaiian cruise like the POA itinerary, I don't understand the law that forbid US cruises with a non US Ship or Crew -> and also the POA was build in Germany not the US... really strange the hole thing there.

I was last week on an MSC Lirica Cruise from Marghera. 
The Embarkation was smooth from the Venice Cruise Terminal (Stazione Maritima di Venezia). They send the Luggage by bus to the Ship. The Pax had to check in in the Terminal like for a normal cruise and then board a big Tender boat to the Marghera industrial Port. This take 30 minutes with the Tender. One hour after we were in the cruise terminal we ware on the ship. But we had Priority (Diamond Member and Aurea Suite). For normal pax there was a longer line at the check in, perhaps 30 min more?

Disembarkation:
The Ship docked a 8am in Marghera, or half an hour earlier. They began at 7.45 am with Group 1 to disembark. First the handicaped people, then Diamond and other they want do go early, then Aurea and then the rest of the ship. The last regular Group were at 10 am. 
You disembark like from a normal cruise, go by foot to the luggage tent in the industrial port, pass customs/Guardia di Finanza (we were in one non-EU country) and then you go with your luggage to a shuttle bus back to the Venice Cruise Terminal, where you left the bus and there are taxis, the people Mover or you can walk to piazalle Roma or the train station.
It take also 1 hour from then we left our cabin to the train station. Very smooth and well organzied. 

There are also transfers to the airport or Venezia Mestre train station, not Venezia St. Lucia train station or a luggage service to Venezia St. Lucia (15 Euro/Luggage).

Guests who stayed on the ship the had more options for excursions or a  espresso shuttle boat service to Venezia San Marco for 40 or 45 Euro/Person.

Also YC have to wait until the ship is cleared bay the local autorities. Nobody can to magic for you in this situation.

So its really to short to go to the train. It can also be bad weather or the port pilot is to late or busy and you miss the 8am dock time, or or or. 

Fore one day this program is to much. Better to stay in Venice or Venice and Murano. But with Burano you don't have a lot of Venice in this day. There are so much interesting things do see in Venice. 

There is no priority with Diamond on normal port days. YC can go out first, but its to early to catch the train.

It's 2 min walk from the Ship to the trainstation, but the lines in the ship can be long especially when you are not in YC. So this will probably not work, on my last MSC Cruise to Flam with a big ship there were long lines in Flam.

Most of the people will board in Venice, so there are not of excursions.

Where you board the ship?
When you will do an excursion in Venice on your own, they will transport you to the Venice Maritime Station in Venice, this took about 40 Minutes by boat. Then you are near the Canale Grande an can do a tour on your own. 
I will board the MSC LIrica in Venice-Marghera next Saturday and can inform you how it works on this ship at the moment in Venice.

3 minutes ago, bob10173 said:

Sorry, cannot read German.

Look on your country side, there will be informations about Venice. Or you can translate it with google.

And Norwegian is really an other cruise experience, more freestyle and less formal than MSC. We were an a Hawaii Cruise with a Norwegian Ship, but it was to freestyle for us. The Ship was without Haven.

On the German Website: 

VENEDIG - MARGHERA KREUZFAHRTEN 

The Infos are on the website and you recive emails about the process in Marghera/Venice. 
They will bring you to the Venice Cruise Terminal by boat or bus from Marghera Industrial port side.

Whats with the Pride of America today? She is underway from Pearl Harbour to Honolulu instead of Maui.

28 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

this information came from whom?

Crem members from the tecnical team.

9 hours ago, Middleager said:

Do you know of any cruise ship that doesn't need maintenance?

 

You've never seen many drunken elderly people on a cruise, where have you sailed?

 

Maybe your son will be hooked on cruising.

 

We've been on several cruises.  Ship happens, with all ships.  Cancelled or changed itineraries.  Shortened port of calls.  Services/shows cancelled.  We may or may not like the compensations, sometimes zero compensation.  But we always get pampered on cruises, I get to be on vacation with my wife.  Life is short, we make the best of it and enjoy it.

yes most of the europeen cruise ships, not owned by an american company, were in better conditions than the american ones.

MSC has also old ships but never so rusty like the american ones from NCL, Carnival or also Cunard. I like the QM 2 but she is mostly in bad conditions, they fix the chimney with some bands before a TA or things like that in the past.

Drunken elderly? We sailed al lot in the last years with MSC, Cunard, Princess, Carnival, HAL, Disney, Costa and on European rivers. And we never saw so mutch drunken elderlys in bars or the dinner restaurant or in corridors like this week.

on more than 30 cruises we had one or two changes of ports but only for some hours.

9 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

I was not aware of this 2 day dry dock, as it is not listed as scheduled in the DNV database.  It is unusual, for a ship of 20 years old to have just a 2 day docking, especially since unforeseen problems are often found when the ship goes dry, but it makes some sense as an interim docking to make up for the obviously missed docking about a year ago, and to reset things in line with the 2025 class renewal timeframe.

 

To be completely factual, one of the "seven generators" is the emergency generator.  As I stated before, the ship will routinely sail with one main generator down for overhaul, for weeks at a time, so this would not cause the USCG to prevent the ship from sailing.  Even with two main generators down, the ship would not be prohibited from sailing, and could still likely make full speed.  If, however, the problem was with the emergency generator, then that would definitely be a "no sail" item.  Failure of the emergency generator is definitely a safety concern for the ship, and in not specifying that as the problem, I find your answer somewhat disingenuous.  Especially as you camouflage the emergency generator in a lump with the other generators, calling it "just" one of seven. 

 

Now it all makes sense.  Hilo is the typical day for crew fire drills, and also the weekly test of the emergency generator, which apparently failed during this test.

One Problem was the emergency generator and then also an other generator failed, for that we were 60 hours in Hilo.

14 minutes ago, Capitan Obvious said:

 

 

 

 

Same story...it is ALWAYS a "once in a lifetime" cruise and the compensation is never enough. Somebody please put another record in this jukebox.

 

 

Looks like you missed a zero. 20% on a $9000 cruise is $1800 plus the $200 in OBC...that comes to $2000, not $200.

 

 

 

You seem to have a lot of information about the problem, how many generators were involved, the US Coast Guard involvement, how much additional time is needed for repairs, and the future ship schedule...yet you complain that they don't give you any information? What do you want, the name of the mechanic who fixed the generator?

 

Seriously, folks. If Hawai'i truly is your "once in a lifetime" vacation...at the very least...get off of the computer and go outside and see Hawai'i. Once you go home, Hawai'i will be a memory, the Internet will still be there when you get home. Why waste "once in a lifetime" on the Internet?

The Infos are from crew members there we speak not from the offical ships information canal, there are no infos about the generators until this morning from the captain! 

We won‘t book a next NCL Cruise so only 200 obc for us, thats nothing,  2% of the price.

I think also your not happy on a cruise like this cruise. Its much easier to speak from far that is all ok and the Informations clear and promptly.

There are two or more generators down not only one. And the US Coast Guard stopped the ship to sail with the broken generators. It will need a week or more to solve all generator problems.

For the spirit pax its also a challange with the port change today.

44 minutes ago, Panhandle Couple said:

I am sad that your cruise didn't go as planned.

I'm not certain how the long flights to Hawaii have anything to do with NCL.  Do you think you will miss your flight home?

 

Until a problem is verified, and a new part delivered and installed, there is not much updates they can provide. Hourly updates are pointless unless something actually happens.

 

I think sailing by Molokai in the daytime would be nice, as very few ever visit it.  Sailing at night removed any scenic views on any of the islands, which was sort of odd.   Also, they stay mainly inside controlled water area, so may be using the next available slot for the route they are planning, similar to ATC for flying.  

For 26 hours travel time this is a huge disappointement! We missed one port and lost one port day in Kauai.

Hawaii is a once in lifetime holiday for us europeans!

We are experienced cruisers, and had other cruises with itenary changes but much better acted and informed than this time, that is a fact.

40 minutes ago, zqvol said:

20% is more than generous. 

20% future cruise credit for a changed and one missed port and 200 Dollar obc? We do not book an other cruise with NCL, so  200 Dollar refund for a 9000 Dollar cruise?

They ruined our day yesterday with no clear information about the problem and departure time. So our car trip to Kona was too short, and when we returned to the ship there was clear that we do not sail until the evening…

Yes it was big generator problem and the solved it now.
So we will set sail at 8 am with a sea day to Kauai and some scenic cruising to Molokini, Molokai and so. Tomorrow we will have a full day at Kauai.

NCL was not doing a good job with the communication yesterday, so no infos about the real problem yesterday and no word why they dont sail in the evening.

We are really disappointed about that and for our long flights to Hawaii, that also ruin our holidays.

We will resive 100 Dollar onboardcredit for pax 1 and 2 and 20% for a future cruise.

For sure, that was our first and last NCL cruise and we will not use the 20%.