Pleasant 1st vacation with NCL

This was my husband and I first trip with NCL.  One of the major plus of this ship was the cleanliness (which can be partly attributed to the fact it's a fairly new ship). However I did notice shoes under the bed which did not belong to us as well as a head wrap.  So the room was not throughly clean, although I had no real complaints with housekeeping...as generally work very hard. The food was good and there are many options including a 24hr diner.  However we waited excessively to receive meals from Tasty (even when being one of the 1st customers).  One of my complaints is the lack of entertainment on the ship.  We exited at every port, but while on the ship some of the entertainment was pretty dry.  Entertainment consisted of art shows, games shows, BINGO, ice/fruit sculpting, sexy leg contest.  I thought BINGO packages wee fairly expensive in comparison to other cruise lines and especially in regards to payouts, but it was all fun and games.  Much of the entertainment I felt like required extra expense from customers.  We paid to see the illusionary show, thermal spa room, and various games shows.  The director Salais and assistant director Mandy were awesome and really played their parts.  Service was pretty good.  I enjoyed small gestures such as cold wash cloths and water when coming back into port.  Now the ports of calls were amazing.  We truly enjoyed Belize.  I would recommend not buying an excursion package from NCL but to rather simply pay for transportation from one of the locals.  We found things such as snorkeling, parasailing, etc were less expensive once you reached your destination.  We went to a smaller island off of Belize which was phenomenal.  The island is very small and literally in the middle of the ocean and offers snorkeling.  We also visited a park in Honduras (not the Gumbalima) great butterfly exhibit, moneys walking around (able to pick up) and parrots.  Costa Maya was beautiful although they were not offering swimming with the dolphins (coming soon).  Overall the itinerary for ports are fabulous.