Pride of America Reviews

I strongly recommend the POA Hawaiian cruise with Norwegian.  We left Honolulu on June 24th, 2017 returning on July 1st, 2017.  From start to finish it was a wonderful trip.  The staff were all very helpful and professional. Our cabin was lovely and was very clean.  Our cabin steward, Eston, was always available in case we needed anything.  The ports of call are perfect.  You have plenty of time to go ashore and do so many great activities.  The food was great!  We only ate at the buffet once; we preferred the "sit-down" restaurants.  They were quieter and you get personalized service.  We also upgraded our dining for 3 nights, eating at 3 of the restaurants available.  They were all wonderful.  We could not possibly eat all of the food available to us at the Brazilian restaurant.  The steakhouse was really good; we were celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary.  We were pleasantly surprised with a serenade from our wait staff!  The entire trip was great.  We loved the ability to just "walk off" with our luggage the day of disembarkation-no need to wait for colored tags, etc.  There is no "alcohol/beverage" package available, so drinks can be pricey.  We did pre-order bottled water to be delivered to our cabin, so that was a great benefit to us. 

Everything should be improved. Dining experience was horrible. Poor quality food and very repetitious. Lazy workers. Overall a very bad experience. Need more supervision of workers and some were not friendly at all. 

I loved the fact that you could travel to the different Hawaiian Islands in style. We had enough time to explore the islands and enjoy the amenities of the ship. We had two nights that were scheduled for cruises along two coasts. We were able to watch the lava flow and the Na Pali Coast from the ship.

All of the staff on the ship were friendly and eager to help.

The food was delicious and there was a lot of variety.

Overall this was a wonderful way to see Hawaii. I absolutely loved this vacation and would definitely recommend this vacation to anyone.

Generally, cruises from Hawaii cost more than mainland ports. The ports of call are beautiful but food on this cruise did not meet my expectation. I would do it once to see the other islands but i rather fly to other islands and stay there longer to get to do more.  

I was a bit skeptical of this cruise because of some of the reviews that I had read.  I was wrong to be worried.  This was the perfect way to see all of the islands in one week.  The ship is smaller but lovely.  No gambling because Hawaii does not permit it.  The food was OK, we like the specialty restaurants and they are great.  The balcony cabins are small but functional.  We upgraded to a penthouse suite for our anniversary and it was spectacular.  Very large room with butler service.  Only surprise was that the butler service gratuity was not part of the gratuity that you pay.  Not an issue, just a surprise.  The perks that come with a suite are well worth the added cost.  It was a good way to show newbies the Hawaiian Islands in a short amount of time. 

LOS RESTAURANTES,  las actividades en el barco y  los espectáculos de teatro

Seria grandioso si se preocuparan de hablar español también tendrían mas visitantes .

The best part of this cruise for me was the Big Island. Volcano National Park was amazing and had active lava flow while we were there. Kona was incredible. Sea turtles were everywhere while driving and stopping on the side of the road to explore the black lava coast.  Please know that when you get to Kona you will need to be tendered into port so allow extra time. My advice is to get off early and walk over to Lava Java for breakfast. Great food at an open air, on the coast restaurant with a live musician playing a Ukolele. Then head over to Fun in the Sun Rentalz and rent mopeds to cruise Kona. It's pretty inexpensive and great service and they offer military discounts. You can also rent snorkel gear here too for $5. Then moped over to Kahalu'u Beach Park for some excellent snorkeling... for free. My son had curious sea turtles swimming right up to him. 

The cruise ship itself was fine. It's basically a floating hotel. You don't really spend much time aboard. There was one night that we went to a magic show and it was pretty good. The musicians were cruise ship standard. The bartenders at the Waikiki Bar are pretty entertaining and fun. If you are a smoker, you will get to know them well as this is the only place you can smoke aboard. If you are heading to Hawaii on the Pride of America, say hello to Marla from Connecticut and Dave from Hawaii at the Waikiki Bar. 

I truly enjoyed the cruise.   Staff was great.   Enjoyed  seeing the Captain several  times   on board with. his family.   Seeing the lava spill into the pacific at night is  spectacular.     We were able to  enjoy breakfast at Cagney's each morning.  I wish they would change the menu  a little or have a daily  special to change things up. 

I certainly would recommend this cruise.