I took my mother on a six night Canada/New England cruise in September of this year. I went through an online travel agent, and had everything arranged from my flights to the transfers to the ship from the airport in New York. When I arrived at the airport, I had been told that there would be a Norwegian Cruise Line Representative there to meet me and take my mother and me to the ship. There was no one to be found. I called Norwegian Cruise Lines and they said that they do not offer transfers from the Newark, New Jersey airport, where we were. I called my online travel agent, and they said that Norwegian said they had a transfer out of that airport, and that they would see what they could do. In the mean time, after waiting at the airport for over an hour, I had to get a taxi. The taxi got us to the ship right as they were doing the safety drill.
As the ship left the New York port, we went to deck seven, and watched as we went past the Statue of Liberty. It was a very beautiful beginning to a trip that had started out so bad.
The first day of our cruise was at sea. We explored the ship, but we were disappointed to find that there was not much of the ship to explore. There was one gift shop, two jewelry/watch shops, and a liquor shop. We resorted to going to the "scrabble room" and playing cards out of boredom.