This is a review of a cruise on NCL's Norwegian Sun, San Francisco to the Mexican Riviera and return to San Francisco, 12-23 October 2009.

We booked the cheapest inside cabin, which cost slightly less then $750 per person, including port fees, taxes and the automatic $12 per day gratuity charged to your shipboard account. According to the cruise broker I used this was supposedly almost a 50% discount, but I noticed that booking with NCL directly on their website was the exact same price. So, either NCL lowered their prices to fill up the ship, or the discount was not real. At any rate, it certainly was cheap.

At this low price, I did not expect anything extraordinary, and I was right. I will rate various services, described below, on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being poor and 5 being excellent. On the whole, I find this cruise earns a rating of only 2.5. Read more