I am sitting here on our balcony of the beautiful Norwegian Pearl writing (starting) this review while it is fresh in my mind. We are certainly not looking forward to debarkation tomorrow. This review will be broken down into several categories along the way, to hopefully make for better reading.
This was a 9 night cruise with an itinerary that would include the ports of Dominica, Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua, and Tortola.
Embarkation in Miami was pretty straight forward. We arrived at the Pier via a rental car shuttle van at around 12:30pm. Since we are past NCL guests (known by NCL as Latitudes members), there was a separate line for check-in. Check-in was pretty easy, and we were only on line for about 20 minutes. From the check-in point, it was on to the luggage x-ray lines, which were not too long at this time, and then on to pick up our room keys. A quick photo later, and we were heading up the gangway ramp to board the ship. All in all, from the curb to the ship took about 30 minute's total. Not bad at all.