January 31, 2009 thru February 7, 2009
We booked Dawn as a low cost cruise we could take our 11 year old grandson on. We had sailed the NCL Dream before and had a very nice time. We had cruised many other ships and companies prior to the Dream, but we found the Dream to be more than adequate. This caused us to rebook on NCL. The Dawn has changed our mind about NCL and Norwegian Cruise lines completely and forever.
First The Dawn is a beautiful ship. It is very pretty and has a lot of visual amenities that make it nice. However, it is not a functional ship at all. I guess if you were very wealthy and could afford to personally own the Dawn, you would like this particular ship as your personal home. It is very hard to navigate around the interior. Really though, as a non balcony/suite passenger you only get deck 12 and deck 7.