NCL Food & Shopping & Spa

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BAKERSGIRL

Guest
Hello! I just had a couple of questions about NCL. Mostly about the Food and Shopping on board.

1st - How is the food quality? I have only cruised on RCCL ( loved their food ) and Carnival (hated their food).

2nd - Good shopping on board? Or at least cruise ship typical?

3rd - How is the spa and what are the prices like?

I might book a small NCL cruise tomorrow and would appreciate the feedback. I have wanted to try NCL for a while, but am quite an addict of RCCL.

TIA!!!:daisy
 
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davejohn

Guest
I can address the first 2, never used the spa on NCL.

Food is very subjective. I've found the food in the main dining rooms to be good, but not great. I thought HAL was better. On the other hand, all of the restaurants have been excellent, but you incur a $10-20 surcharge.

On board shopping is pretty typical. Lots of jewelry, perfumes, clothing and they run special gold and gem stone sales during the week. The Dawn had one big shopping area (Galleria) while the Gen had several smaller ones.
 
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nmnita

Guest
I would pretty much agree with davejon, Food is subjective as it apparent from your overall view. I thought the worst food we have had on any of our 20 plus cruises was RCI, not awful, just not particularly good. I would put NCL ahead of RCI and yet HAL was our favorite.

As for the shopping, very average, nothing to get excited about. If you cruise to shop you may be disappointed. Again, after so many cruises except for maybe a few little things a couple of bottles of booze we don't shop anymore.

I haven't used the spa often, but a few times yes. The prices are as low if not lower than most lines we have cruised.

Hope this helps some.

Nita
 
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