Norwegian Dawn Review

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Sail Date: Jan 2015
Cabin: Family Suite with Balcony

Sailed 1/11-18 MSY rt MSY

Flew down the day before stayed at airport hotel overnight - next day return to airport to take NCL chartered motor coach to port ($20 charge).

Bus takes about 25 minutes to go the 12 or so miles from the airport to the port.

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Family Suite with Balcony

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Stateroom data - Suite 12030Similiar to the NCL STAR there are 24 suites forward of the ships library - 12 on each side.The first stateroom either side of the library is just like the one on the Star - floor to ceilingwindows and NO Balcony followed by -5- suites with a smaller balcony than I had on the Star -which was great these were not so invasive of the interior space and instead of a coffee table toeat room service meals a standard size table with 4 chairs was in place. Another neat feature was thecordless cell type phone provided for the cabin to take anywhere on the ship.Forward of the 1 suite with no balcony and the 5 with are 6 more balconyless suites.At the forward end of Deck 12 are the 4 Deluxe Owner suites with no balcony and floor to ceiling windows.A note about the suites with balconies - unlike the one I had on the Star with a cover over the deckthese on the Dawn are open with no awing thus are exposed to the weather and other elements.A privacy element is in play because from Deck 13 above people can view down into your balcony.While at tender port at Belize the rain was so monsoonish that it fell on my balcony deck and seepedpast the calking to flood the carpet interior. Maintenance came with a wet/dry vacuum and did a numberfollowed with two giant snail like blower fans to dry it all out.Other than that the stateroom has all the features that the Star did - double sinks separate shower and bathcloset space in foyer to the bathroom - but I like the more liveable space provided on the Dawn.The price difference varied around $2000 more for the Balcony. For others reading this review realizethat for that amount of savings one could go up one Deck (13) and get all the fresh airing and viewing.One last critic - do you recall the running jogging track on the Star running thru the tunnel on Deck 13 ?On the Dawn this track is moved further aft near the Star Bar and Cagney's. But the die hard runnersstill use the old track running right over the first five suites causing a thump a thump a thump of feetpounding on the ceiling at some of the most inconvenient times of sleeping. NCL tried to inhibit this bymoving some deck lounging chairs in a pattern to discourage this but then even moving the furnitureon the deck caused unpleasant noise - nature of the beast - no satisfactory solution.

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