Before I get started, please allow me to apologize for this being my first posting and yet we have been avid readers of the message board and have thankfully received numerous tips and comments that have greatly enhanced our cruising experiences. We have been cruising for the past twenty five years and have been on a total of 35 cruises. Most have been with RCCL and HAL but we have strayed to Celebrity and NCL in the past, before the advent of free style cruising.

We just returned from the Epic on September 4th and overall, we had a nice trip. This was the first time we cruised on a brand new ship which was our allure to decide to take this cruise. This is the second NCL cruise as "Free Style" and we have already booked two additional cruises on this line in late December and March 2011 so we are committed to the concept at least for the time being. Having some experiences with cruising we offer the following comments and observations about this new ship. Some will disagree with my comments...but these is our observations and opinions.

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