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899 Norwegian Gem Bahamas Cruise | Great Stirrup Cay

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Doug Parker

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A review of Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Gem on a three-night cruise from PortMiami to Nassau, Bahamas and Great Stirrup Cay, NCL's private island. 

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0:14.9

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0:16.8

Simone and her husband took a three-night sailing on Norwegian gym out of Fort Miami. It went over to

0:22.9

Nassau in Great Stirrup, Norwegian's private island. She joins us to talk all about it. How you doing,

0:28.8

Simone? Good morning, Doug. Good morning. A lot to unpack here. You're typically a Royal Caribbean

0:33.8

cruiser, and you decided to take the little jump over to NCL for a sailing to see

0:38.4

what you thought. So before we get to the ship, we'll take a step back. What made you want to

0:41.8

take this three-nighter out of Miami? We really wanted to try something a little bit different.

0:48.4

Like you mentioned, we usually sail Royal Caribbean. One thing that we found attractive about some of these

0:58.3

Norwegian ads that we've been seeing online and such was sort of this all-inclusive pricing package.

1:07.9

So we decided that it would be a good idea to give them a shot and kind of, I don't

1:14.6

want to say compare the two, but there are a cruise line that we want to sail again.

1:19.2

You're in South Carolina. You make your way down to Port Miami. Any pre-cruised time in South

1:24.2

Florida? No, no. We just, we're lucky enough to be driving distance from Miami.

1:31.3

It's a long drive, but the driving distance nonetheless, so we just left night before,

1:36.4

drove straight through and got to the port. When it came time to board Norwegian Jim, how was the

1:43.1

embarkation process and how long did it take you to get

1:46.5

from the curb to the ship? And I'm curious just because sometimes people find cheaper off-site

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