dramatech

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a loose child on deck 8. Please find the parents and inform them that they need to teach their children manners. Thank you for your time and enjoy your day on the Cruise critic forums.

I had that on my ship sailing. They ran past me and the person I was traveling with. Right in the middle no sorry or anything just went right through full speed. Parents should keep their kids under control so that things like that don't happen. Plus they could get hurt if the boat shifted to one side suddenly.

I went on the Norwegian Jade and I'll say this about any cruise I have or will ever be on. Do not go into expecting perfection. If you do you will be disappointed. We had some issues on our cruise but never once did I let it get us down. We had a blast. Don't read the reviews of every single cruise ship because from what I have learned from those reviews is people mostly post their bad times and not the good ones. They just wanted a venue to complain. This site has some people that genuinely review and tell you what their full experience is. So final advice just go into this with an open mind and have fun. Then you won't have to worry about those reviews.

Hey there, I went through a travel agent and not directly through Norwegian. However, I was informed that they will refund 100% of that money if you are still outside of their cancellation period. I changed my reservation two times with the agent and had no issues. :D Hope this helps a bit.

We did cagneys twice. Also we did Teppenyaki twice. and Le Bistro once. We got Teppenyaki twice because the first server was so bad at doing the job the manager comped us a second meal with their top chef and a free bottle of wine of our choice. So worth it the second time. I'll go again when I take my next cruise to show my brother who is going with us this time. So Teppenyaki is #1 on my list :D.

Just wanted to add I know you said smoking but if you decide to try and vape that falls under the same rules on the ship as smoking. Saw people trying that on my last cruise and they were asked to stop.

I didn't have the heart to tell him the bad news about deck 0. Lol :P

That's cool you'll be on shortly after me. I booked Dec 1st.

Hey all I just booked my trip on the Norwegian Bliss in Dec of 2018. Super excited. Not much is known about the cruise ship at this time and my Travel Agent has not got any other information as to restaurants or anything on the ship. Has anyone else heard any rumors or news on what may be featured on the Bliss. I'd love to hear about it.

That means that you do not have a deck assigned yet. That too will come shortly before sailing. You will get a deck number and room number at the same time. It does not hurt to call your travel agent at this time either to see if there is a room higher for the same price. I did that as well and got a slight discount.

Hi Rukie. What you booked is called a Guaranteed stateroom. That means you will not know your room assignment until 1 to 2 weeks before sailing date. With the booking of the room you may not get the best view but you are guaranteed a stateroom no matter what. When I went on the Jade I bought a Minisuite GTY and ended up getting an aft room that was so amazing and large that I will never sail on anything less. I hope you get the same luck of getting the room you will love.

Have a safe sail :D.

NCL does not ascribe to "Formal Nights" on any of it's cruise ships, however, there will a couple of "dress up or not nights" or " night out night" usually on sea days.

 

Cruise casual or resort casual (nice shirts for guys, nice tops and slacks for the ladies) is top dress code. There are some who prefer to dress to the nines... it's freestyle, wear what ysou want to wear. We usually dress resort casual or better but that's just us.

 

Enjoy your cruise and relax your dress code... bringing a smaller suitcase is good.

I spent most of my time in shorts. The only time I changed it was when I did cagneys or some other special restaurant. I put on pants. That was about it. They didn't say a word. NCL is very relaxed with dress code.

Use the force wisely :D

We got there 10 min after they started but we were still far back. I don't know if the time will be the same but when they say what time they will give out tender tickets get there early. We got group 5. Mind you if you have an excursion booked you'll have a ticket already that will serve as your tender ticket.

If you like to eat early some places fill up quick. It's best to plan ahead and make your reservations early.

I thought the magic show was very entertaining. To each their own.

I don't doubt some people liked it but yeah I didn't at all.

Will be sailing the Jade next month. Our room will be right above yours. My DW was wondering if you noticed any ship movement being in aft? I also was wondering if had any copies of the daily activities? Thanks for the info.

There was quite a bit of side to side and back and forth depending on the seas. We had two days of moderate seas. So it rocked you to sleep. The day before we docked in Houston OMG. That was bumpy you'd feel the back hit the water. It woke me up maybe 2 times but other than that it again rocked me to sleep. I do have most if not all my daily activities sheets. I'll take some pics and post them for you all. Mind you they won't be the same on the cruise.

I will preface these photos with this is my brand new camera. I have not had a real chance to mess with it. I just uploaded them all. It has a huge zoom so I was taking photos of other ships and people so I can work on my editing afterwards. So there are a lot of close up photos. Enjoy all the photos :D.

http://s11.photobucket.com/user/dramatech/library/Cruise

We went to 3 of them as we did cagneys twice and we also did tepanyaki twice due to the one guy that did our show didn't do any of a shower and the manager came up to us all after our dinner and said he'd like to make up for the awful show we had and set up our group with two others and made it a huge party with two of their very best cooks. He also complimented us with a free bottle of wine of our choice. It was amazing. We had so much fun. The other was the Le Bistro. That was an amazing place to eat as well. If you can go there. They have escargo that I have never had before but it was excellent. The best part of the entire cruise I'd be honest is some of the small events you can do on the cruise ship. You can get a drink watch a shot or go play deal or no deal. Even bingo was fun although we didn't play cause we didn't want to spend money at that time since we had one more excursion left and wanted to make sure we saved money for any trinkets we wanted. We watched though :D. Also the other best thing was the dining packages and drinking packages. I was able to get my drinks for free. I was a bit tipsy during the cruise :P

You should. Just be sure to check out the freestyle sheet they give you every day and you'll be set :D.

Oh there is lots of time for that. I talked to a family on the cruise they said there was some activities for the kids that kept them busy so they don't drive them nuts the entire cruise. They had the splash academy that they said the their boy liked. He was 8 though so I don't know if that fits your situation. They also had Wii night. They had Wii sports and some other games that would keep the kids occupied. There were also various family projects going on throughout the week. So if you get a chance to go to any of those you can get that cocktail and let them play :D.

Hello all,

I just got back from a cruise on the Norwegian Jade. We were in room 11152 and that was the aft mini suite. Great room the only thing is the long walk that you had to take to get there. It was especially difficult after a show having to walk from the front all the way to the back. There are a lot of reviews that I read before taking this cruise and I will say only pieces of it were true. For example, people complained about the food at the buffet. Well it wasn't great but to be honest what do you expect from a buffet that is having to give 2000 people food almost round the clock. In that retrospect it was good for me but not perfect. People also complained about the staff. I never once had a problem. I treated them with respect and they did the same with me. They were all great. I was at the customer service desk and one guy complained that his expectations were higher about his room and his service. If I could give some advice to people stop setting your expectations so high. Be happy with what you can get and enjoy your vacation. We had a great time the food in the complimentary dining and the specialty dining was great. Service was excellent. They even welcomed us back to a restaurant we had not been to in 4 days. They just new us right away.

Now I will not say that the cruise was perfect. There were some flaws. For example, having to speak to some of the crew members regarding finances or even to carry on a conversation was sometimes hard. Some of the spoke very little English. That is something the cruise line needs to work on. When they come on the PA system I couldn't understand what they were saying. Luckily, I could piece it together. The other thing is the entertainment shows were well outdated on this cruise. We had a great comedian by the name of David Naster. He was AMAZING!!! The other shows was some washed up Vegas act guy named cripton and renata. The show was pretty crap to be honest. He was super cocky and full of himself. Demanded that we all stand and applaud him. He had 3 shows during the cruise we skipped the other two except for elements we were stuck with him. Besides him the rest of the elements show was great.

Last thing that wasn't perfect that fit with all the complaints was the belize city tendering. It was super slow and long. They only had 3 boats helping us tender. They need to work that problem out. If we didn't go get a ticket to get off like we did that day we would have been able to get off the boat at around 1 and have to be back by 3. We got off and didn't return for about 4 hours. So we're lucky.

Long story short we did not let any of this stuff ruin the vacation. The excursions were great. The crew was helpful and fun. We had the drinking package and dining packages. They were great. Saved us a ton on drink money. This crews line was great as long as your there to just have fun and be worry free. The crew takes care of everything and all you need to do is go along for the ride. If you do go on the cruise I would highly recommend going to Cagney's. Great place to eat. Went there twice it was so good.

Any questions I'd be happy to answers. I'd post pictures but the site doesn't like my nice pictures. I'll include a link later to some of the pictures I took after their all up on the web. I took to many (over 1,000 photos) :P.

I just got back from the Norwegian jade and they showed movies in the medusa lounge on a small 50" screen. It really wasn't worth it unless your really bored in my opinion. It would have been better if it was on a bigger screen and a better sound system.