Our group consisted of my daughter, wife and myself. This was are first experience with FreeStyle cruising on NCL, but not our first time cruising. We have cruised previously on Disney and Carnival.

Embarkation went very smoothly, we arrived around 10:45am and there were about 50 people in front of us on the side we were told to go too. We got a boarding number 2 and was very excited we wouldn't have to wait long. About 11:40am they started boarding and we were on the ship before noon. We went straight to the buffet and it was already very busy. We found a table by the window and enjoyed our first meal on the ship. After lunch we explored the ship before we could get into our room. We found the layout of decks 6 and 7 to be confusing, but we eventually figured it out by the end of the week. We made dining reservations for Teppanyaki for Saturday night and Endless Summer for Thursday. Both of these meals were wonderful.

Freestyle wasn't really to our liking, we tried Aqua and Versailles main dining room and weren't that impressed with the menu choices, so we ate one night at Teppanyaki and one night at Endless Summer, and the rest of the nights at Market Cafe. Both of the premium restaurants were very good, but had to pay extra. The food choices, quality, and temp were very good in the market cafe. But the two main dining rooms were a big disappointment, if you didn't get there before 6:00pm you would have to wait, service wasn't that good, and the food wasn't that good. Read more