Our cruise left New York on June 28, 2008 and returned on July 6, 2008, NCL Spirit. Our itinerary was San Juan, Tortola, Samana. My wife and I have been on 7 cruises in the last 15 years. Four of the last 5 cruises have been on NCL. We loved the Freestyle dinning. This cruise we had a total of 11 people, family & friends counting ourselves. We had 3 balconies, 1 inside and 1 oceanview. We are not rich people; we put money aside for a nice vacation every year. If you're just going to work any not enjoy some of your money, it makes work even harder.
We did have a good time. Some things were just not up to any cruise ship standards. I did write a letter to NCL. They basically said we will notify the different departments on the ship. They just blew me off! I have only written 1 letter about any cruise or vacation I have taken and this one needed to be sent to NCL. I guess this makes the second letter.
NCL changed the itinerary, from St. Thomas to San Juan PR. Now we did book with a travel agent and she said NCL is the only cruise line that doesn't notify them when they make an itinerary change. Being a returning member, don't you think they would have notified us when they made the change? It wasn't big deal, but I was just at San Juan and didn't need to go back again. . The ship had 2250 people, according to the cruise director, on board and it should only have 1996. That may account for some of the problems we had. NCL did make money, so I should be happy. The ship didn't appear to be over crowded, except at dinner time.
Our cabin was fine. It was what we expected. Balcony was great. It's a ship not a hotel. Space is always limited.