We live in Vancouver and we booked our cruise from Travelbestbet.com with agent Laura. At first we booked an obstructed view cabin to lock up our air flight booking. The agent's air flight price was half of what NCL charged but it was not arrival guarantee, so we had to land at Miami the night before just to reduce the risk of missing the ship. Then when we saw the balcony price came down a few hundred dollar, we called the agent to upgrade for us. Our travel agent did a great job and everything was organized for us including all the airport to seaport transfers.

We stayed at Quality Inn at the international airport because they have free shuttle 24 hrs. We arrived at Miami 11:30pm and pick up a hotel phone at the airport to call the hotel. Then we went to the front of the airport and watch the hotel shuttle to come by. Waive your hand and they will stop in front of you. The hotel is clean, comfortable and free breakfast. Then we took the shuttle back to airport to get on the transfer shuttle to the port which is run by NCL. (Quality Inn has its own shuttle for $10 usf.). The shuttle stopped in front of the ship and the porter take cared the luggage for us( just make sure you have a proper tags on your luggage.).

The embarkment was very smooth( half hour) as we used the latitude member line which is for repeat passenger. Read more