Main public beach area has very little shade - far less than what Princess Cays or Disney's Castaway Cay has. Sand quality was comparable to Princess' and Disney's islands.GSC features live music, beach volleyball, slides, water sport activities, and a miniature straw market.Returning for tenders seemed a bit chaotic - no organized lines just a mass of people waiting to file through the checkpoint area. Tender ride was better on the way back.We shared a cabana rental with another family we were traveling with. Cabanas cost $299 and you receive: priority tendering, 8 bottles of water, fresh fruit plate, chips & salsa, and $50 toward specialty foods or any kind of drinks. Cabana attendants took our island BBQ lunch order and brought food to us so we didn't have to walk all the way back over and stand in the lines. They also brought our drinks, including the unlimited pop as that also was good on the island (unlike Princess). The Island BBQ was comparable to Princess, but not nearly as good as Disney. We had burgers, hot dogs, pizza (terrible), variety of cold salads, and more fruit. If desserts were available at main pavilion, we weren't offered them.Cabanas feature 4 deluxe loungers, dining table and 4 chairs, mini fridge, outside shower, and a hammock in the back. 8 beach towels are provided so you don't have to drag them with you off the ship.Cabanas are located away from main area on a separate beach area. Relatively few other people not in cabanas made the trek over so it was uncrowded.It would be nice if another set of restrooms were available closer to our beach area.

Great Stirrup Cay

This was my 3rd time visiting Nassau. Since we decided to splurge on a cabana for Great Stirrup Cay, we opted not to do any excursions. We got off the ship shortly after 10am. Walked around trying to find free wifi unsuccessfully (later found out that we should have headed over to Conch Fritters or Senor Frogs). Did some shopping downtown & in straw market. Found a Christmas nook in The Linen Shop that had nice quality merchandise. After a couple hours, returned to ship.

Nassau

We had an oceanview stateroom on forward port side of deck 4 with an unobstructed porthole window. It was a small but perfectly functional room for a 3 day cruise. There's only 1 accessible power outlet at the desk so it's good to bring a power strip. Since NCL is a Pepsi ship, I brought on board an 8 pack of small bottled Diet Cokes which fit perfectly in the mini fridge (I did have to call Housekeeping to request that the mini fridge be emptied of all the minibar crap, which didn't occur until after 1st night turndown service). Beds were not plush, but they weren't rock hard either. Pillows were OK. Linens were nice. Didn't hear much hallway noise during the night.

Background Information
I booked this cruise for three main reasons: 1) A group of cruise bloggers/travel agents had organized a block, and I was interested in meeting folks that I've gotten to know through Twitter, 2) I had a few unaccounted vacation days to use this year (for solo travel sans husband) and wanted to do a weekend cruise with one or more of my girlfriends, and 3) going on this cruise would bring me even with my husband in terms of number of cruise lines sailed (4) and total number of cruises (10)!So I went into this cruise with appropriate expectations, given this is referred to (even by the ship's staff) as a "booze cruise" and this was one of the oldest & smallest ships I've sailed on.

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