The bottom line of my review is that the Breakaway 12 day cruise is amazing. Lots of bad reviews on here, I only had a few "complaints"-if you can call them that- so I wanted to post.

My boyfriend & I are 41 & this is our 5th cruise, 4th with NCL. Boarding in NYC was super easy, using our casino at sea card was a must-almost everyone is a latitudes member now so those lines are long. And its from the Spirit 5 years ago! We don't really gamble! We were ushered past everyone & on the ship at noon despite not even getting to the pier until 11:30. Some advice about checking your bags at the pier-be nice to the guys & tip them well. So many people were rude to them & we thought it couldn't be a coincidence that a lot people still didn't have bags at 8pm & we had ours at 2.....just an observation!

We also tipped our room steward on day 1, along with a note asking for more hangers (you will need them), fresh ice daily & to empty the mini bar. He was awesome-did everything. We were able to hang up everything & had ice fresh twice a day & had room to put our leftover beer from the buckets in the minibar. (I think we had leftover beer once...!!!!!!) Read more