Without question the BEST review of this cruise on you tube. We go next week and we were hanging on your every word. Very professional and polished. Thank you so much it must have taken you ages to film and edit. Simply brilliant 👌👌👌
Se helpful! I want to visit at least a couple of European countries on a short trip and am considering a cruise. Thank you for making traveling easier for so many people!
Hi Kate, great video, we really enjoyed it. Thank you. My wife and I are going on the same cruise in reverse in April of next year and were wondering about our options in Naples. I am a History major (twice removed) and would love to see Pompeii, however do you think we can squeeze in a visit to Pompeii and your recommendation of route B for the on off bus tour. (There betwn 10am and 8:30 pm) I am guessing not but thought I would seek your counsel regardless. Other option would be to just do both on off tours and grab lunch while on route A perhaps? Thanks for whatever help you can offer. You must get questions all the time.
Hi! Happy you liked it! I think it is possible, both routes would take 3 to 3,5 hours if you don’t get off and then to Pompeii 40 min drive, 2 hours there, 4,5 hours so all in all 9 hours will do, but I would start with Pompeii and then return to Naples and decide based on time what else you can do. Luckily the port is right in the city. Have a great holiday ☺️
Thank you so much ☺️ so happy it helped you! Hope you will have a great trip 😉 and thank you so much for the super thanks 🙏 it is actually my first one!
Great video, I really like your explanations. I will be on the same cruise in 3 weeks. A few questions for you if you don't mind. Did you leave rome to go to the port of civitavecchia? how did you find the port? easy? For Mallorca, how do the buses from the port to the city work? Can I buy locally? For Florence I have already seen that we have to take a shuttle. is it easy to find? Thank you so much. :)
Hey happy you liked it! We took a taxi to the port in Rome, for Majorca we bought shuttle bus from the shop from ncl you can get it on the reception, in Florence the tourists busses were right next to the shuttle bus stop, at least in our case, of course I don’t know if it is always the case. But it should always be there 😉 have a great trip
Very helpful. I am going on a similar NCL cruise so thanks very much. Could you please tell me whether the breakfasts at the restaurant that they opened up were complimentary?❤
Hey nothing wrong with it, just a bit of a hassle, you can do the train or take a local tour they offer the round trips to Florence, they are usually right next to the bus stop where you will be dropped of, so it is very convenient
Thanks for your video. Please allow me to add my feedback from my recent Mediterranean cruise from June 22-July 2. Maybe my comments can help someone thinking about booking this ship. It was just me. I booked an inside cabin and paid x2. Being solo I didn't mind the cabin, I actually thought it was nice. I can see how with family it might not work so well. I had a great cabin steward and most of the "working people" were really nice. My pros: Cabin steward, and other "working people", ports (I had 7 in 10 days). That's it for pros. I actually told my cabin steward that he was too good for this cruise line and this ship. My cons: The food in general was horrible. I live in Las Vegas. The cheapest buffet here in town would be better than the one on the ship. It was a joke. Food quality was nonexistent. I didn't expect much from a buffet but I couldn't believe how bad things tasted. They couldn't even make an omelette without burning it. Maybe if they were making it correctly in a pan instead of on a crepe iron it might have been better. Just the overall selection and especially the food quality was subpar. The dining room food wasn't much better. Very hit or miss. I would have the same thing on a different night and it would taste differently. I really enjoy eating in the dining room but never knew if what I ordered would be good or not. To be honest, I was embarrassed for them. This was not the quality type of food you would find in the dining room on a cruise ship. Things would come out cold, salty and taste like they were prepared way before you ordered them. Most the the staff were really nice. But even the servers would tell me they would get complaints on things tasting too salty. What I also didn't appreciate is that they wouldn't even enforce their own dress code in the more formal of the two dining rooms. I was was told to take off my baseball hat in the less casual dining room but people could wear shorts and beach attire in the more formal. I had three nights of specialty dining. I did two in Le Bistro and one in Cagney's. Le Bistro was excellent. Some of the best escargot I have ever had. Two wonderful meals there. GREAT service all around. I had the same waiter both nights. He would call me by name and seemed to really care about my dining experience. My interactions with the manager were also good. They treated me like a king. My night in Cagney's was not so good. My filet was perfect but my earlier courses were not so good. A crab cake with so much salt you could hardly eat it and lobster bisque soup that as another passenger put it, "tomato soup with a tiny piece of lobster." The service was just ok. That's my dining experience on the Epic. It really pissed me off that I constantly received voice mails marketing to me. Come on now. I'm on vacation and I can't avoid being spammed by the cruise ship I've paid to be on? There were a lot of things that were just marketing to get you to cruise again. So many places on the ship (events) just getting you to spend more money. The ship itself needs to be retired. Lots and lots of peeling paint all over the place, rust etc... The deck plans and overall layout of this ship are strange, but I knew that going in. It had the itinerary I wanted so I booked it. They changed one of my excursions and never even emailed me. I asked two different people at the excursion desk and both were totally rude. I heard about some other people who's excursions were completely canceled and they were not informed until they got on the ship. My overall experience on this ship was not good. I would never sail on NCL again. Poor food quality, constant marketing for future cruises, art, jewelry and anything they could make more money on. Try fixing up your ship or retiring it. Do something. Try buying some decent/good quality food instead of the nasty stuff you are currently purchasing. Sorry for the long review but if it can help anyone else, it was worth my time to write it.
Thank you so much for sharing! I have to agree that maybe Epic was not the best experience, I do prefer the higher end ships of ncl. To me service was hot and miss sometimes great, once bordering on rude, so I get your frustration 😉
Worst cruise ship I have ever cruised on. Eleven days of pure torture. This ship feels like a dark, dank, dirty, seedy two-star Las Vegas Casino, only in Pahrump, NV. The food was horrible, the crew were constantly angry, often agitating passengers. My check in was botched, my app never worked, my name was wrong, all my excursions were cancelled for no reason "call Miami" not our problem. The worst of all of these issues is you can't see the ocean on this ship unless you have a balcony. You will not find anywhere on the ship to relax and enjoy the ocean unless you want to gamble. The layout of the ship could not accommodate the masses and with only two elevator sets on the ship it would often get aggressive. The crew was ill-equipped to handle moving the masses during excursions, events, etc. It constantly felt like walking around Disneyland at peak season. This felt like a low budget cruise carrier! First and last time on NCL
Without question the BEST review of this cruise on you tube. We go next week and we were hanging on your every word. Very professional and polished. Thank you so much it must have taken you ages to film and edit. Simply brilliant 👌👌👌
Thank you so much David!!! So happy you liked it! You have made my day 🥰 hope you have an amazing cruise 🚢
What did you think of the ship
Eloquence throughout the blog no boring moment …good job for all the tips cruising this November 1-10
Advice is pure gold!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much! Happy you found it as such!
Nice cruise report. Excellent photography .
Much more interesting is the very beautiful narrator!!
Oh you are so sweet 🥹 thank you so much ☺️
Hello. It's a very good explanation. Great in images. Thanks. See you.
Thank you Hyde 🙂 happy you liked it! And thank you for watching! Have you ever been on a cruise?
Awesome and beautifully done!!!
Thank you so much for writing 😊 appreciate it 😉
So interesting! loved it!
Thank you Katya, happy you liked it
Thoroughly enjoyed your in-depth video. Very interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing this
Thank you so much for writing 🙂 so happy you have liked it! It is always so nice to receive such comments of appreciation 🥰
Awesome video I was scribbling down notes re the ports - we go on Epic next month, thank you so much it was super helpful x
Thank you so much 😊 it made me so happy you found it useful! 🥰
Se helpful! I want to visit at least a couple of European countries on a short trip and am considering a cruise. Thank you for making traveling easier for so many people!
Thank you so so so much for writing 🙂 your comment made me very happy! I’m so glad to help! Hope you will enjoy your journey
Hi Kate, great video, we really enjoyed it. Thank you. My wife and I are going on the same cruise in reverse in April of next year and were wondering about our options in Naples. I am a History major (twice removed) and would love to see Pompeii, however do you think we can squeeze in a visit to Pompeii and your recommendation of route B for the on off bus tour. (There betwn 10am and 8:30 pm) I am guessing not but thought I would seek your counsel regardless.
Other option would be to just do both on off tours and grab lunch while on route A perhaps?
Thanks for whatever help you can offer. You must get questions all the time.
Hi! Happy you liked it! I think it is possible, both routes would take 3 to 3,5 hours if you don’t get off and then to Pompeii 40 min drive, 2 hours there, 4,5 hours so all in all 9 hours will do, but I would start with Pompeii and then return to Naples and decide based on time what else you can do. Luckily the port is right in the city. Have a great holiday ☺️
Love your detailed review. I’m planing to go next year and your video helps a lot. Thanks! ❤
Thank you so much ☺️ so happy it helped you! Hope you will have a great trip 😉 and thank you so much for the super thanks 🙏 it is actually my first one!
Thanks! It is really interesting video!
Thank you 🥰happy you liked it
Awesome!
Thank you 😊
you are making me hungry. I am going to Barcelona in October to sail the Mediterranean on Th Escape.
Hope you will enjoy it! 😉
Love it
Happy you have enjoyed it 🥰
Great review! What is the name of the Tapas place in Barcelona?
Thank you so much ☺️ happy you liked it! I honestly don’t remember, sorry about that
Where did you find a coffee cup printed backwards? (13:22) I want one too.
The result of video editing 😂
@@ATWKate It's hilarious.
Thank you for watching! 😉Let me know if you have any questions!
Great video, did you buy a thermal pass or is the sauna complimentary? Thank you!
Thank you 😊 sadly it was not complimentary
Hello, love your video. What month did you go on this cruise?
Hello 👋 thank you so much! So happy you liked it! In May
Great video. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Quick question: Where did you get your euros from?
Thank you 😊 happy you liked it! We got from the atms that is probably the best way
Great video, I really like your explanations. I will be on the same cruise in 3 weeks. A few questions for you if you don't mind.
Did you leave rome to go to the port of civitavecchia? how did you find the port? easy?
For Mallorca, how do the buses from the port to the city work? Can I buy locally?
For Florence I have already seen that we have to take a shuttle. is it easy to find?
Thank you so much. :)
Hey happy you liked it! We took a taxi to the port in Rome, for Majorca we bought shuttle bus from the shop from ncl you can get it on the reception, in Florence the tourists busses were right next to the shuttle bus stop, at least in our case, of course I don’t know if it is always the case. But it should always be there 😉 have a great trip
@@ATWKate
Thank you very much, it's kind of you. It helps a lot.🤗
What dates were you on the cruise, I am from Hawaii and got on in Rome on 5/20 it was such a great experience thanks for sharing this
Sounds great 👍 love Hawaii 🌺 have been once. We were just recently on this one, mid May.
Very helpful. I am going on a similar NCL cruise so thanks very much. Could you please tell me whether the breakfasts at the restaurant that they opened up were complimentary?❤
Happy you liked it 😊yes they were complimentary
With the Florence train - I was thinking of taking it on my upcoming cruise? What was wrong with it? Why do you recommend the transfer instead?
Hey nothing wrong with it, just a bit of a hassle, you can do the train or take a local tour they offer the round trips to Florence, they are usually right next to the bus stop where you will be dropped of, so it is very convenient
@@ATWKate thank you!!!
@@stephaniebarahona1281 you are most welcome 🤗 enjoy 😉
This review has been an eye opening for us! thank you!. Just a question, how do you book the shuttles? and how much you paid, can be paid with CCard?
Happy you liked it 😉you can book on the reception, price don’t remember anymore, sorry but I think under 10 euro per person
Do you need to go to a place that is the reception or can you do the booking on the tv screen in your stateroom? Thanks!❤
Hi. How long can you explore the city? Thanks
Hello, it depends on a port from 2 days the longest I have had to the more common 12-14 hours to 6, 8 the shortest
Thanks for your video. Please allow me to add my feedback from my recent Mediterranean cruise from June 22-July 2. Maybe my comments can help someone thinking about booking this ship. It was just me. I booked an inside cabin and paid x2. Being solo I didn't mind the cabin, I actually thought it was nice. I can see how with family it might not work so well. I had a great cabin steward and most of the "working people" were really nice.
My pros: Cabin steward, and other "working people", ports (I had 7 in 10 days). That's it for pros. I actually told my cabin steward that he was too good for this cruise line and this ship.
My cons: The food in general was horrible. I live in Las Vegas. The cheapest buffet here in town would be better than the one on the ship. It was a joke. Food quality was nonexistent. I didn't expect much from a buffet but I couldn't believe how bad things tasted. They couldn't even make an omelette without burning it. Maybe if they were making it correctly in a pan instead of on a crepe iron it might have been better. Just the overall selection and especially the food quality was subpar.
The dining room food wasn't much better. Very hit or miss. I would have the same thing on a different night and it would taste differently. I really enjoy eating in the dining room but never knew if what I ordered would be good or not. To be honest, I was embarrassed for them. This was not the quality type of food you would find in the dining room on a cruise ship. Things would come out cold, salty and taste like they were prepared way before you ordered them. Most the the staff were really nice. But even the servers would tell me they would get complaints on things tasting too salty. What I also didn't appreciate is that they wouldn't even enforce their own dress code in the more formal of the two dining rooms. I was was told to take off my baseball hat in the less casual dining room but people could wear shorts and beach attire in the more formal. I had three nights of specialty dining. I did two in Le Bistro and one in Cagney's. Le Bistro was excellent. Some of the best escargot I have ever had. Two wonderful meals there. GREAT service all around. I had the same waiter both nights. He would call me by name and seemed to really care about my dining experience. My interactions with the manager were also good. They treated me like a king. My night in Cagney's was not so good. My filet was perfect but my earlier courses were not so good. A crab cake with so much salt you could hardly eat it and lobster bisque soup that as another passenger put it, "tomato soup with a tiny piece of lobster." The service was just ok. That's my dining experience on the Epic. It really pissed me off that I constantly received voice mails marketing to me. Come on now. I'm on vacation and I can't avoid being spammed by the cruise ship I've paid to be on? There were a lot of things that were just marketing to get you to cruise again. So many places on the ship (events) just getting you to spend more money.
The ship itself needs to be retired. Lots and lots of peeling paint all over the place, rust etc... The deck plans and overall layout of this ship are strange, but I knew that going in. It had the itinerary I wanted so I booked it. They changed one of my excursions and never even emailed me. I asked two different people at the excursion desk and both were totally rude. I heard about some other people who's excursions were completely canceled and they were not informed until they got on the ship.
My overall experience on this ship was not good. I would never sail on NCL again. Poor food quality, constant marketing for future cruises, art, jewelry and anything they could make more money on. Try fixing up your ship or retiring it. Do something. Try buying some decent/good quality food instead of the nasty stuff you are currently purchasing. Sorry for the long review but if it can help anyone else, it was worth my time to write it.
Thank you so much for sharing! I have to agree that maybe Epic was not the best experience, I do prefer the higher end ships of ncl. To me service was hot and miss sometimes great, once bordering on rude, so I get your frustration 😉
Do you save times for the tender boat to Cannes?
Yes on the reception
Excellent video. Very professional, but with too many face shots.
Thank you so much 😊 happy you liked it!
@@ATWKate Please....Keep up the good work.
Deep, man voice.
Something with your hearing? Or speakers maybe
what month did you go?
In May
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🙏
My question is when u will visit India ? and how to meet u ?
No plans on visiting India any time soon ☺️ sorry
Ohh hoo Ohh no
Did you stay in heaven
No we did not
Sagrada Familia is one of the ugliest looking buildings I have ever seen… looks demonic in my opinion
Ok, I think it’s nice
Girl can drink some coffee
I love my coffee ☕️
Worst cruise ship I have ever cruised on. Eleven days of pure torture. This ship feels like a dark, dank, dirty, seedy two-star Las Vegas Casino, only in Pahrump, NV. The food was horrible, the crew were constantly angry, often agitating passengers. My check in was botched, my app never worked, my name was wrong, all my excursions were cancelled for no reason "call Miami" not our problem. The worst of all of these issues is you can't see the ocean on this ship unless you have a balcony. You will not find anywhere on the ship to relax and enjoy the ocean unless you want to gamble. The layout of the ship could not accommodate the masses and with only two elevator sets on the ship it would often get aggressive. The crew was ill-equipped to handle moving the masses during excursions, events, etc. It constantly felt like walking around Disneyland at peak season. This felt like a low budget cruise carrier! First and last time on NCL
So sorry to hear you have had a bad experience. It was not so bad at all with us
I have Spanish blood in me, & that sounds about right, I think Hercules is the founder of Barcelona 💪🦸
There we go ☺️ I’m with you