My wife and I are just past 70, both of us retired; we sailed on the Norwegian Pearl on the April 6, 2015, cruise out of Miami. This was a an eastern Caribbean 10-day cruise to Tortola, Antigua, Martinique, St. Kitts and St. Thomas with two days at sea each ways. I chose this cruise mainly because it went to islands that, with the exception of Martinique, we had not visited before. This was our fifth cruise with Norwegian.

The embarkation was very chaotic; boarding was delayed due to health issues on the previous cruise (need to sanitize the ship). NCL contractor running the terminal was overwhelmed by the amount o people in terminal (some people were given group number, some others not), refreshment were not offered. It was almost 3PM when we were authorized to board (we arrived at noon), it took another hour before we were authorized to go to our cabin (balcony on deck 10).

Not much to complain about the room, no ice bucket: it came back toward the end of the cruise; I’m assuming that the absence was related to the need to sanitize the ship after the last cruise problem. Same applies to the Coffee machine (not a problem for us as we don’t drink coffee). Room lighting can be improved. Our room steward was good, friendly and unobtrusive. Read more