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My cruise on the 'battered' Norwegian Dawn

Original post by Reesa

Hello all--for all of you planning a cruise for your Honeymoon-I thought this might be helpful!!

Well, besides the freak wave and the storm we were 'riding'--the food was pretty decent and the service was excellent. The freesyle ding was def a good thing! They had great outside entertainers (Ed Alonzo and the Edge).

However, we were scehduled to stop in Nassau Bahamas, which was cancelled b/c the ship had to be back by 5:00 a.m. on the day of return (instead of 8:00 a.m.) due to 'orders from the Port of NY'.

When we arrived onboard, we learned that it was actually an event on the ship happening (rumored to be a commercial filming for the cruise line). We each received a $50 credit for the inconvenience of missing Nassau Bahamas.

Then we sailed into a storm and the ship gets crushed by a huge wave! Everything in our stateroom fell to the ground and our bed was swaying from left to right! QUite an experience. Everyone will received a 50% return on what you paid for your ticket and 50% off a future cruise-- but the $50 for missing Nassau made many very angry!

I hope no one who booked a cruise for their honeymoon is worried--all cruise lines will be extremely cautious from now on for sure!!


dccl Posted:

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thanks for writing that because we were planing on going on a cruies and that scared me but not anymore. cant wait.
cuomster Posted:

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Sorry about your horrible experience. I don't know if you heard, but in the Post today they stated that the reason the ship had to be back was to film on an episode of 'The Apprentice'. Technically its a commercial for them. Nice that they would risk everyone's life by boating thru a storm to make it on an episode. It was rumored they paid $1,000,000 for the appearance.

I think a full refund is in order!!
Reesa Posted:

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OMG!! No wonder they were in such a rush to get back to NY!!! Wow--they are going to be in some deep trouble!

junebride! Posted:

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Glad you're ok and have such a great attitude...some people mihgt have had their whole memory ruined by it...and now you cna go on another cruise without spedning too much $$$
Reesa Posted:

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Thanks all!!

Now I def think they rushed back!! A refund is def in order! What I also didn't think of on the ship and heard on the news afterwards (And am thankful for!) is that in such a storm, they wouldn't even be able to bring down the lifeboats! YIKES!
MrsMichel07 Posted:

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Posted by cuomster

Sorry about your horrible experience. I don't know if you heard, but in the Post today they stated that the reason the ship had to be back was to film on an episode of 'The Apprentice'. Technically its a commercial for them. Nice that they would risk everyone's life by boating thru a storm to make it on an episode. It was rumored they paid $1,000,000 for the appearance.

I think a full refund is in order!!



I also heard this as well.

I heard people are suing the s$%t out of them!!

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