Norwegian Star Review

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First Time NCL and Alaska on the Star

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First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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Sail Date: May 2008
Cabin: Aft-Facing Penthouse with Large Balcony

Background: We are mid 50's, celebrating 33 years of marriage. We have lived in Florida since 1996 and a year ago moved to the Atlanta area. This was our 13th cruise, but our first on NCL and first to Alaska.

Travel/Hotel: We flew into Seattle the day before our cruise and we stayed at the Seattle Sheraton both pre-cruise and post-cruise. Booked with Priceline for $110 and $91 respectively. Very nice hotel, wonderful location. Walk to Pikes Market and many nice restaurants in the area. Ate at "Cutter's" pre cruise- very good seafood/sushi restaurant. They provide free transportation back to your hotel after dinner. Post cruise we ate at "The Brooklyn"- awesome array of oysters, yummy martinis and delicious food! The Pikes Market Brew Pub was also a fun place, with microbrews that were great. Ate Mother's day brunch in the Space Needle-great food and an unbelievable view-wonderful!

Embarkation: This was the first cruise out of Seattle Pier 66 this year-and it was bedlam! A line that snaked around the building, no porters available, a man telling us to take our suitcases and find the end of the line. NOT! DH found a stevedore to take our luggage and we found a table with no line to the left of the Big long line. Not the most cordial bunch..but they checked us in and gave a number. Then I overheard them referring to another group as VIP's, and they swept by us. So I went back to the ladies and told them we were suite passengers, and lo and behold, we became VIP's too! We were brought in and loaded our carryon bags through the xray machine. Security asked to see the corkscrew that was in our bag with our wine and champagne. We showed him...looked for the corkage table (oops! no corkage table!) and we were then led into the vip lounge, where we met our Butler, Roy and our Concierge, Simone. They checked us in, gave us our room keys and we were on our way to have lunch in Versailles. (No one told us Cagney's was open) As we boarded the ship, we were offered a glass of champagne-2.0!? Had a few glitches with our lunch order but had the cold banana soup (thanks-SakesDad!)-delish! Then we decided to explore the ship while we waited for our room to be ready-1:30 they promised.

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