Great shore excursions but some negatives from the on-ship experience

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 40

Review summary

Everything (I mean everything from specialty restaurants to on-board activities like laser tag, go kart etc) are fully booked on Day-1. you need to book restaurants and shows at least 2 months in advance, and get on the ship early and book on-board activities. The ship has simply too many passengers and the "free-style" set up only works for people are planners. If you don't plan ahead, you will be frustrated and disappointed that everything is booked up. Sliding doors require a push of a button which I think is dumb design. They should just have motion sensors. Imagine your hands are full with food and drinks and you need to open the sliding door to get to the pool area.... Gym is rather small (compared to Royal Carribbean). But I think the target customers for NCL are not the gym type, so that might be okay. Water slides are fun, but for some reason, they are not open during the day where we are at-sea.

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Ports of call

Seattle, Washington

Ketchikan, Alaska

Juneau, Alaska

Skagway, Alaska

Victoria, British Columbia

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