I want to preface this review that I'm far from a seasoned cruiser but do travel a lot...
I really didn't know what to expect from this cruise, at all! I had perused the NCL website and semi familiarized myself with some of the amenities the ship had to offer. I had cruised on the Pearl a few years ago (the second voyage! amazing.) and I absolutely LOVED it. It seemed that this ship while being significantly bigger and boosting more restaurants/better entertainment, still mirrored the Pearl in some ways. So I was hopeful!
I wasn't disappointed but I wasn't floored. Epic? Sorta. It's HUGE. Towards the end of the trip it was fatiguingly huge. As in, I'm in the aft of the ship but I need to run and get something from the forward where my room is. Yeah, see you in twenty! While being very impressive by the sheer mass of the ship, the novelty wears off. You start to notice how many empty common areas there are... Decks of unused pool chairs in the quiet area... Our ship was almost full but those areas were predominantly empty. It was like they just built them for bragging rights about the square footage. Unwise use of space.