Norwegian Dawn Review
An Enjoyable 12 Day Repositioning Cruise - NYC to Miami
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We were poking around on NCL's "Hot Deals" page and came across this 12 day repositioning cruise. Norwegian's DAWN serves the New York City market during the spring and summer but gets "repositioned" to the Miami market for the winter. These cruises are popular and come with some pretty reasonable prices. A couple clicks later and we were in.
This was our third cruise and our second on DAWN. When we cruised on DAWN last year from NYC through Canada and New England we had a balcony cabin and frankly have gotten spoiled. Balconies are great and we've gotten to really like the wall to wall and floor to ceiling window they provide. Of course having a place to sit and watch the world go by isn't to shabby either.
Sailing out of New York harbor was really special this time around. DAWN has been sailing from New York for eight years but will be returning to Boston in the spring. This was her final departure from New York so passing by the Statue of Liberty was done with much fanfare.
Cabin Review
Balcony
The NCL Dawn cabin was smaller, had less closet space, the bed was harder, and bedding not as comfortable as experienced on Carnival Miracle. Our NCL Dawn bathroom did have a shower door instead of a curtain which we prefer. Our balcony was one of the ones forward that were particially enclosed (not wide open) which we ended up liking because it gave us some additional shade and protection from rain.