Norwegian Pearl Review

Norwegian Pearl - Southern Caribbean

Review for the Southern Caribbean Cruise on Norwegian Pearl
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Sail Date: Feb 2007
Cabin: Mid-Ship Mini-Suite with Balcony

I'll try to keep this short, but informative, and break it into sections. We were on the Feb 2-11, 2007 Southern Caribbean cruise.

Embarkation: We arrived at the Port at 10:20am on Friday after flying in that morning (never book a date before checking to see what else is in town that weekend - Super Bowl - no overnight rooms available). We went to the Suites/Latitudes line where there were only two couples in front of us. We were allowed into the terminal at 10:45. The other two couples went to the Suites line and we went to the Latitudes line. In about 5 minutes we were registered, had our pictures made and made our way into the reception/waiting area. We picked up our cards and were seated (1st in line) in the reception area. We had to wait about 30 minutes to board the ship, but there were refreshments (cookies, juice, and water) available so the wait wasn't bad. By 11:30 we were boarding the ship (the back-to-back guests and suites got to go on before we did). We went straight to our room, a mini-suite on deck 11, port (left for you landlubbers) side, where our cabin steward Michael met us. The room wasn't completely ready yet, but Michael let us leave our carry-on luggage in the room. From there we went to the Garden Cafe and had a light lunch (well, DW had a light lunch - mine was a little bigger). The selection and quality were excellent! We explored the ship for awhile and went back to our room around 1:30. Michael had finished by then and the room was spotless (more about the room later). Our bags began arriving around 2:20. By 2:45, all three bags had arrived. We changed clothes and proceeded to the Sky High Bar where our Cruise Critic group was having an impromptu sail away "party". We met several of the group and watched from the starboard side (right side) as we pulled away around 5:00pm.

Room: Our mini-suite was beautiful and just right in size. We had plenty of room for bags. All but the gargantuan one fit under the bed. The really big one went into one side of the large closet (lots of nice wooden hangers). Near the closet were four large drawers for clothes, plus a large double shelf area, with a door, above the drawers. There were also three drawers by the desk/makeup table, next to the refrigerator. There were also two shelves above the refrigerator, and a safe with plenty of room for all of our valuables. The balcony had a large sliding glass door that opened easily and stayed open if you wanted it too (although if left open too long the mirrors and glass would fog up because of the humidity and air conditioning mixing). There were two chairs and a small table on the balcony. In the room there was a comfortable queen sized bed and a couch that could be converted to a double bed (we didn't need to). Oh, the hair drying worked very well according to my wife. The bath was good sized, similar to the one in the AC Penthouse we had on the Jewel last year. There was a full sized tub/shower, a sink area, and a small toilet area with a sliding glass door. In my opinion, there was nothing to complain about. We thought the room was nearly perfect in size and functionality. Our cabin attendant, Michael, was attentive, but not overly so. He was around when he needed to be and not when he didn't need to be. We used the sign outside the door to tell him when to turn down the bed and when to make up the cabin and it was always done in a timely fashion. We always had plenty of towels, linens were always clean, and the room was kept neat (except for our stuff all over the place - after all, we were on a vacation!). We used the four cup (three in reality) coffee maker at least twice a day and Michael kept extra coffee and creamers stocked for us. We also had cute towel animals every night, including a penguin and a dinosaur. Our cabin was in an excellent location, halfway between the forward and midship elevator banks, so it was very to convenient to get wherever we were going.

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