Norwegian Dawn Review

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singsong01
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Oct 2013
Cabin: Mini-Suite with Balcony

I've had a total of 4 cruises on NCL (10/19/03 - Majesty; 10/12/08 - Dream; 4/21/12 - Dawn; 10/18/13 - Dawn) and have the 5th one coming on in 16 days (but who's counting) on 4/19/15 on the Dawn. My first four cruises have been to Bermuda due to the convenience of getting to Boston (nothing like getting out of the car and on to the ship in a matter of a couple of hours!) and my upcoming cruise is a 12 day repositioning cruise (first time doing this) leaving out of New Orleans and coming back to Boston. I just love, love, love cruising on NCL. It has been a great experience each and every time, even when the weather didn't want to cooperate. I found all of the staff to be extremely friendly. They are also amazing at remembering names! On a ship that has a couple thousand people, one would not expect the staff to remember your name when you walk in to a particular establishment (my husband is still tickled that one member would always call him "Sir Kevin". Made him feel like royalty!).

We loved the fact that there was always something to do. Every night when we would get back to our cabin, my husband would be as excited as a kid on Christmas morning when he would see that the itinerary for the next day had been slipped under the door. There were times there was almost too much to do because we would have to pick between a couple of things that were going on at the same time. It was also nice to know that we didn't HAVE to do anything if we didn't want to (which was sometimes the option I chose).

We found that the food selection was great. If we wanted to be more casual, we went the buffet route and if we wanted to be more "grown up", we would have our meal in the formal dining room. On our last cruise, on two of the nights we had dinner in the specialty restaurants (Teppanyaki & Moderno) and we had also eaten in La Cucina on a previous cruise. Even though you had to pay a little extra for the specialty dining, I definitely felt it was worth it. On our upcoming cruise, we have the ultimate dining package and have booked a different restaurant every night (except the French one...I'm not much into eating things I can't pronounce, but that is my issue, not NCL's).

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