Just arrived backed in Pittsburgh from an awesome 9-day vacation with my wife and two children (five and three years old).

For a quick history, my wife and I were frequent cruisers with NCL prior to having children, but we stopped cruising after a bad trip with our one year-old to New England and Canada…With kids, cruising had simply become unenjoyable.

As a substitute, we've been taking the kids to Disney World for weeklong vacations for the last four years. These have been great trips and enjoyable, but physically and mentally exhausting. Read more