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Had I known how bad the food was I wouldn’t have booked. Knowing now how bad the food is I won’t be booking again. I was clearly misled by the slogan “nobody does dining like Norwegian”. I took that to mean they did it well….my mistake lol

I have to assume it’s due to COVID related cuts. They wouldn’t have been able to run a cruise line for decades with food this bad. There would be no second time cruisers.

I have no axe to grind. This was my first cruise in 10 years and I came in to it expecting decent food in the dining rooms. I wasn’t expecting gourmet food. What I was served was the quality I’d expect from Golden Corral. Their slogan of “No one does dining like Norwegian” is a joke. I’ve been served better food when visiting my grandmother at a literal nursing home. Hopefully the signature dining locations are better. The food was bad enough that I wouldn’t risk taking another cruise with Norwegian.

We just disembarked from the NCL Breakaway yesterday. Our experience with the food was awful. I lost 5 lbs over the course of the week because I struggled to find anything that was worth finishing. We ate in the main dining rooms and the buffet along with a couple specialty dinners. I talked to other passengers who agreed with my assessment. Poor quality steaks in Cagneys, sushi was bulked up with too much rice, etc. I think my wife said it best…when you combine the demographics of the guests with the quality of the food, it felt like we were on a floating nursing home. Chocolate silk pie with the texture of jello, icy ice cream, mushy shrimp, rubbery fried chicken, every bread product was dry and stale. I could go on all day. We found the quality of the main dining room to be only slightly better than the buffet. I know its difficult to cook 15,000 meals a day, but if I were the head chef, I’d be ashamed to sign off on any of the food I ate. Before this trip I didn’t think I was a food snob, but maybe I am. The plus side was that the poor quality food pushed us to eat on shore as much as possible and we had some great meals on shore, my favorite being in Bar Harbor. This was our first cruise on NCL and needless to say we won’t be cruising on NCL again.