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Pride of Aloha - Hawaii

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mbettyboop
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: May 2007

My new husband and I sailed on the May 6th Pride of Aloha cruise with 2 days pre-cruise in Oahu. I booked the cruise, hotel and airfare through NCL and felt it went pretty smooth considering. After my final payment, the cruise price dropped almost $300 per person and I was a little upset at first because I knew I could not get any money back. I ended up calling customer service and politely asked if I could get an upgrade or OBC. The lady I spoke with was very nice and after a little bit of holding, I was given a 9 category upgrade! I went from an inside to picture window cabin.

We flew from Sacramento, CA to San Francisco and then on to Honolulu. The flight was uneventful. When we arrived in Honolulu, they was a NCL greeter waiting for us and she escorted us to baggage claim an on to the shuttle to take us to the Waikiki Beach Marriott. We were able to check-in for the cruise at the NCL office at the hotel and had to wait about an hour until our room was ready. We went and had lunch and returned to pick up our room keys. The hotel was very nice and our room was pretty, but we were given a horrible location. The room was on the 4th floor and faced another hotel, where they played loud music and the garage trucks picked up the trash right outside of our room at about 5:30 am. Needless to say, we did not get that much sleep there. Thank god for jet lag and already getting up early.

On Sunday, we checked out of the hotel and were shuttled to the port. Since we checked in at the hotel, we went straight thru security and picked up our cruise cards. Even though there were a lot of people checking in, we were on the boat in about 10 minutes. Very easy embarkation. When we boarded, we were greeted and then we made reservations for the specialty restaurants. They had a table set up to do that right when we boarded. We booked Kahili the first night and we did not want to go to the sail away BBQ and since we had purchased the Honeymoon package, we booked at Le Bistro for Tuesday night. We had lunch at the buffet and then went to our room.

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