I've been on several Carnival Ships and this time we decided to go with Norwegian We EXPECTED a much better experience. We heard Norwegian is a step up in Quality.... DISAPPOINTING is the word to describe our vacation. The ship was old and had nothing to do except eat. The on-board entertainment sucked, the activities sucked, and the food was just so-so. More on the food, they have two restaurants that are included in the cost, not counting the Garden Cafe. The two restaurants have almost exactly the same menus, To get something different you have to go the unpaid restaurants, Yes you get different food but its very pricey.
Rooms: The rooms were smaller than the rooms on any of the Carnival ships, our week was like living in a medium size walk in closet. We Thought we were going on a different ship, seems the ship we thought we had was not finished.
Excursions & Ports Stop number 2 was Belize, turns out the port is owned and operated by Norwegian. Wow you leave the ship and all of a sudden everything triples in price. the Belize port was such a waste of time, oh by the way there are no transportation off the island, they have you until the ship leaves.
Small, hard bed, little storage space.
New Orleans is a fun place, but we spent only a few hours looking around
Good off the ship experience, went on excursion not tied to the ship, much cheaper costs
Owed and operated by Norwegian, we called it the rip off port