Booked the 10 day Ireland tour out of Southampton for May 2023.
I got sucked in by the itinerary, drink package, wifi and the BOGO air etc.
After spending the last 2 days reading, researching etc I am having second thoughts.
Lots of bad reviews about the ship, the service, the food and more. And of course the BOGO air seems to be a nightmare.
The cruise came to $6900 for everything (no excursions of course). We are not really drinkers (very rare) and the gratuities we are hit with for the bev package are high at $400 (218 x2) - highly unlikely we would get full advantage of this unfortunately. Wifi is limited to 150 mins as well (which was misleading but no surprise there). Excursion choices are VERY LIMITED which sucks since part of the deal was $50 off excursions each day. I do have 3 of the AMEX NCL offers (maybe a 4th if I check with my brother-in-law so I save at least another $1050 netting out to $5850). Not cheap of course.
With all the negativity I am reading I am actually very much considering cancelling.
FYI we are new to cruising only done 1 - RC to Alaska which was amazing in every way. We have nothing substantial to complain about RCCL (bathroom sucked but that's about it)
Any comments you guys care to share are welcome.
Thanks.