What do you think about norwegian cruiseline?

I hated it! Long lines, understaffed, and disorganized doesn't even begin to summerize it.

Not my favorite. Although I've only been on two other lines, I found that I did NOT like the freestyle dining experience at all! When I would try to get into a MDR, the wait was usually horrible, or not acceptable to a family with two kids. I missed having the same wait staff all week, and the chance to make new table friends. The buffet got very boring and predictable, and I wanted to be waited on instead of shuffling by an array of food behind a sneeze guard. That means we had to go to the specialty restaurants to have a relaxing dinner. That also meant extra money we wanted to spend on shore excursions was eaten up. I also found that they seemed to nickel and dime you at every turn. RC and Carnival didn't seem so nickel and dime oriented. Finally, we had a theft that could have only been done by an employee. It was from our room. All of our small souvenirs were in a bag in a dresser drawer. Any larger ones were spread in our luggage or in the safe or elsewhere. The last evening on board, while we were out of the room, someone grabbed the bag. I can only surmise they stopped because of fear of being discovered, and had not had a chance to ascertain what was in the bag. We came back and proceeded to pack our suitcases. I took one half of the room and my husband took the Half that had the souvenir bag. After packing we checked each other's sides as well as our own to make sure we hadn't left anything in a drawer, closet, or elsewhere. All clean. We only discovered the theft when we got home and unpacked. I realize that thieves are everywhere and not just on NCL, but this experience totally soured us on using them ever again.

So do I..its been a bit of a stretch to take a serious plunge with another line. But I've opined more than once, old reviews and old sailings may not mean much as time passes. And btw OGW, I hope a whole bunch of peeps appreciate the due diligence it took to do that analysis. Those games they play have been bugging me for awhile now, and we finally decided to do something about it.

And yes ... I still love sailing Norwegian .... very much...

So .. always knew that the "Free at Sea" was not free but actually was able to put a price on it yesterday. For the first time we booked a sail away balcony (mainly because of the cost difference) This is a BX class. And a week after booking we were assigned a cabin. A nice 8th deck balcony. The first balcony at the front. Well I saw this week that they were offering the free at sea promo and for all the balconies all 5 options were included. So I called them up to see about adding that. It was nicely explained that the promo does not apply to sail away bookings and yep I do recall reading that sometime in the past. They did however off that I could get the package if I agreed to go from a BX to a BD which was the next class up at a price difference of 460 per person ($ Canadian). The funny thing is that the BD rooms are right beside the BX cabins and they are still assigned by the cruise line. So there it is. The extra charge for the exact same room with and without the "Free at Sea" package amounts to 460 per person ($ Canadian) or $920. That amounts to about $702 in US bucks. And then of course you have to pay the 18% gratuities on what the cost of the dining and drink package would have been which is about another $300 US.

So .. as the man said ... no such thing as a free lunch ... you can pay me now or you can pay me later ... but one way or the other we will always pay.

Not complaining ... just laying it out there as an FYI for those that did not know.

Hope they keep a few of the Oriental artwork here n there. And the plaques near the bridge explaining it all...

Yep .. it was originally constructed for a Star Cruise lines but when they bought NCL in 2000 many of their new ships went to NCL instead of Star. Spirit was one of those. Love that ship.

Good grief...considering her size, that's like a brand new ship. We had a cruise on her scheduled mucho years ago, but my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer...it was caught very early. the oncologist said take the cruise...we did, but needless to say our minds and hearts weren't in it. she finished radiation and chemo, and midway thru it I called NCL and rebooked the same cabin, same restaurants...told her it was "do-over"...to this day that ship is our absolute favorite. And of course, we've been on ships TWICE her size. You know, Im sure, it was originally built for, shall we say, smaller people. I think its the only ship NCL purchased from another line. Its obviously long in the tooth..I expected it to "be gone", but this refurb indicates they intend to keep it. Wished it sailed out of a port in the USA.

OK .. after seeing this I MUST get back on the Spirit. We have been looking at a Med cruise in 2021 and that has been where the Spirit has been sailing. Hope she stays there. This update looks awesome. Spirit was my first cruise.

https://cruiseline.com/advice/what-s-hot/news/norwegian-ship-receive-14-new-venues-100-million-renovation?fbclid=IwAR0qSqe9Xsr5OLKZGFpa9lwZRaR5jahAgPHPzNXVTE4nmAScijkz31JS28o

After Royal, it is our favorite line,