This was our first sailing with Norwegian Cruise Line. We had four people in our party--two adults and two children (ages 8 and 11). We had chosen this cruise because it was one of the few "Nickelodeon at Sea" cruises that was a 10 night sailing instead of a 7 night and it left out of New York which meant no airfare for us (yay!).

We chose to get to and from New York by hiring a driver from a local limousine company. The cost of this (from South Jersey) was about $400 roundtrip + tip. We found this to be very reasonable considering the fact that parking, tolls, and fuel to park at the cruise terminal would have been almost $400 for the 11 days. Doing it this way also allowed us to relax during our ride and not have to fight the city traffic.

We arrived at the cruise terminal about 11:00 am. When we got there, things were very organized. It looked like a lot of people and we tought we were going to be waiting forever, but it ended up taking us about 35-40 minutes total from when we got there, to when we actually boarded the ship. Read more