Pride of America Review

7 Day on the Pride

Review for Hawaii Cruise on Pride of America
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really4me
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jun 2014

This is my 2nd cruise sailing with Norwegian in a suite; still my favorite line but I can concur with what I've read about the Pride of America Hawaii cruise. Others said that this ship isn't as nice as most in the NCL lines, the food in specialty restaurants is substandard to other ships and the service is totally different. It was still fun, the food was not great but acceptable in the Liberty and the wait staff were rushed and hurried at times and while others went out of their way to be friendly and helpful in both the Liberty and the Skyline. We only dined there twice and that was enough for us. SAILORS BEWARE, NCL DOESN'T HAVE LOBSTER NIGHT ANY LONGER. That was the first I'd heard of that when we boarded and asked which night is was to take place. That was a huge disappointment.

On the Dawn our concierge service was totally different than on the Pride. We were not even given our concierge's phone number and all requests we were told were to be sent through our butler. That was different than what I had seen on the Dawn. On embarkation we had to stand in line with the passengers for security check point, and there was no help for bags unless you rounded up a steward with a cart yourself, after security we were escorted to the lounge area for suite passengers. From then on it went pretty smoothly.

I wouldn't recommend La Cucina. It was so wonderful on the Dawn and the Pride was so inferior to it. I had the pork scallopini with creamy polenta which I liked but no one else cared for their pasta dishes and they ordered a variety of different things. The suppa was very good as were the salads and bread. They served a gluten free roll and had gluten free pasta choices as well. We dined 1.5 hours and never got dessert because of another appt. we had to be at..

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Now the review of family cabin 9198 where we stayed. Our Butler was Parker who was very helpful and went out of his way to do what we asked but he seemed to discourage many things that I asked about. Don't know if this was do to not wanting to do it or knew it was going to take forever but all in all it worked out fine. I read reviews so I knew to tell the steward not to make down the bed early. He had difficulty understanding what we meant. It makes it impassible to do get to the balcony door when the bed it made up. It is a nice wrap around balcony. Our daughter had the adjoining room and they won't any longer open balcony doors. That was a disappointment. The master bedroom lacks drawers but has a large closet. The bed is comfortable and it's a quiet suite. No noise is heard from the above decks at all in the master suite. Our grandkids were slept in the other part of the cabin are young and didn't hear any noises that would wake them up. If you've read the bathroom is small believe it. No tub either, and I thought being a suite it would have one. 9198 if aft and rocking is felt and it gets pretty rough in Hawaii sometimes. It didn't bother any of us but passengers forward were very sea sick. If you have motion sickness you need to get the patch behind your ear a few weeks ahead of time someone told us. He waited too long and it didn't work for him. I was promised the Lavage coffee maker and this suite only has Lavage coffee in a maker that doesn't make lattes like the other suites have. I was ticked at that so they brought us a bottle of champagne to make up for it. They also brought me soy milk because of a milk allergy but really, you wouldn't believe how tiny the refrigerator is.

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