Background: Our group was my husband and myself, daughter & son-in-law, grandson 21 and granddaughter 19. We booked 3 cabins.
I had read all the NCL Spirit reviews and the Roll Calls, so I had a lot of good tips and it sure helped. First of all, reading such negative reviews had me worried. It turned out to be fine. We thoroughly enjoyed this cruise and my family did too. Even though we much prefer Celebrity (we have cruised many times), NCL was very good. It does, however, cater to a much younger clientele than Celebrity, and that's why we wouldn't take an NCL cruise in the future.
Embarkation was very smooth. We drove to NYC, parked right on the pier, and went on board very quickly. The ship was beautiful. Very well maintained, clean and decorated very nicely. The cabins were fine, BUT.....Cabin 6569 and 6567 are located right under Henry's Pub. The noise and banging and chair scraping was very bad. Don't book those cabins.