Norwegian Sun seems to get somewhat good reviews online. I thouroughly researched it prior to booking our cruise this past February (2011). Once I boarded the ship, I realized why the reviews were "tainted". The average age of the population on the ship was pushing 65 (and that's being nice!). I have never seen so many wheelchairs, walkers and scooters in my life (not for the disabled, but for the VERY old). It seemed like more of a seniors cruise where Bingo was the most attended event, by far.

KID'S CLUB/KID'S ACTIVITIES - We figured since we booked during school vacation week for the Northeast, that there would be a lot of children for our children to play with. In fact, there were less than 50 kids on the whole ship (age 2-17). When signing the kids up for "Kid's Club" were were told that they had a much better turn out for our voyage versus the past few weeks. Kids Club was very average. They provide you with an Agenda for the week, but each time we dropped the kids off for something specifically scheduled on the agenda, they never actually did the activity. All they really do is play games, the same games, over and over. It gets very boring and by the end of the week, the kids didn't even want to go anymore (two boys - Age 7 and 9). There was a basketball court which was really the only thing to do other than swim in the pool. The "kid's pool", the ship claims to have consists of a tiny pool that is a foot deep and the size of a plastic one you'd put in your backyard. It is more for a 2-3 year old. There's also a hot tub, but since it's so far away from anything else, the kids don't want to use it. There are two other pools on the ship. One they make for adults only, but since there are no gradual steps into it, the older people (ie, most everyone else on the ship) use the one for the kids and complain when they get splashed.

FOOD - The food on the ship is not good at all. The cafeteria is SO SMALL that you can't even get into it without waiting in a line of 25 people. This line is there all of the time. It was so bad that people would come and sit at the tables waiting for them to open the food and then make a mad dash for it. The dining room was open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. However, breakfast was not good at all. Lunch was okay and dinner was pretty good, but not great. The freestyle dining is more of a pain then "relaxing" as they say. The main dining rooms typically had a wait since no one wanted to pay to go to the other options. The restaurants that charge covers, were okay (we went to three of them), but not really worth the money. They were more of what you'd get on Royal Caribbean in the main dining room. The portion sizes in all of the restaurants were very small. I am not a big eater, however was hungry after eating most meals. The sports bar has food (free) during it's hours, however, they people that work there don't want to serve you unless you order drinks. They are very rude! Read more