Norwegian Pearl Review

Feb 17 Review of the NCL Pearl

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Norwegian Pearl
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First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Feb 2008
Cabin: Balcony
Traveled with children

We just returned from a 5-day sailing on the NCL Pearl to the Western Caribbean. This was our first cruise with NCL after having sailed 3 times with RCI (Mariner) and once with Disney. We are a family of 4 (late 40's parents and two daughters 12 and 15). We also took my fun-loving 75-year-old Mother-In-Law, who is recovering from ankle surgery and two girlfriends of our daughters with us on this sailing.

HOTEL - We arrived in FLL a day in advance and stayed at the Hyatt Place in Plantation. It was recently renovated (formerly an AmeriSuites) and we found it to be a beautiful hotel with great service. The only problem we had was at check-in when they said we had booked 5 rooms rather than two. After showing them our confirmation paperwork, they agreed to change our reservation to just 2 rooms. We later figured out there was another guest arriving that night with the same exact name as my MIL (we booked the rooms in her name so she could earn the points). Even their middle initials were the same - the only way we caught this was by looking at the home address. What a coincidence! Fortunately, they quickly reinstated the other party's reservation for 5 rooms and everything worked out fine.

EMBARKATION - We had arranged for a limo to pick us up from the hotel at 10am, and we arrived at the port by 10:45am. Check-in was quick and painless, although we had to wait until 11:30am to board. The only snag was we had requested a wheelchair for my MIL because she can't do a lot of walking yet, but when we got to the terminal, there wasn't one available. This made boarding very difficult, but somehow we managed to get her on the ship. Fortunately, she had rented a scooter from an outside company, and it was waiting for her in her cabin. Unfortunately, this wasn't the only time we would have an issue with getting a wheelchair (more on that later).

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