I am disappointed to say that Norwegian will never see me on one of their ships ever again. The Spirit is an embarrassment and Norwegian should ditch the "Freestyle Cruising" since they can't deliver on what they promise it to be. This cruise was so bad that the first thing I am doing after I arrived home is writing this.

We took an 8-day cruise on the Norwegian Spirit on May 20th from NYC to St. Thomas U.S.V.I., Tortola B.V.I., and Bermuda. We booked this cruise because it was leaving from NYC so we wouldn't need to fly anywhere and it fit into our busy schedules. We liked the itinerary at first, but when we were at the ports we realized it wasn't the best. We arrived in St. Thomas around 1 in the afternoon and left around 1 in the morning. This sounded great, but everything in St Thomas shuts down at 5 pm. The stay in Tortola was too short. Our time in Bermuda was good.

We live in Queens, NY so our travel to the port was a short cab ride. There were two other ships in port leaving the same time we were so there was heavy traffic going to the port. We ended up getting out of our cab on the east side of 12th Ave. and walking to the port. This probably saved us a bout a half-hour of sitting in traffic. Read more