Background Information: Husband (43) and I (33) have cruised five times prior to the NCL Dawn cruise (four with Carnival and one with Celebrity). This is the second time weve taken our daughter (3) and my mom (56). We are a middle-class family with the residing in suburban New Jersey (Wyckoff, NJ) and both are educators (husband teaches high school English, I teach college Communication). Hubby and I had one room and my mom and daughter had the cabin next door (8076).
I APOLOGIZE FOR THE VERBOSENESS OF THIS REVIEW&THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG REVIEW SO SET SOME TIME ASIDE&LOL!!!
Embarkation: We arrived at Pier 88 after 12pm for our 5pm sailing. The ship was supposed to leave at 4pm but courtesy of Cruise Critic, we knew it would be leaving an hour later. Check-in was a breeze. Waited on line for no more than five minutes and set up our room accounts. The real wait occurred after checking in. We found out the Dawn didnt arrive at 10am as it was supposed to but actually arrived at 11:45am. So, when we pulled up and I saw passengers on the ship, I was excited to climb aboard but found out at check-in that those were the passengers hanging out from the cruise coming in.