Pride of America Review
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Mindy Kohn, our NCL rep, was incredibly helpful (she seriously had to answer more questions for me than anyone gets on a college final exam!), as was our group coordinator Leonie. We were able to use the ship's chapel on the day and time requested, have a cocktail hour on the first day just before setting sail as requested, and use a conference room on the last night as requested. Leonie even gave us more time that we requested for use of the chapel and conference room, and set us up to all leave the ship together as a group on the last day.
Our waitstaff at Skylines (Caitlin and Kevin) were full of excitement and offered to help me set up favors at the table each night at dinner and to help put out place card holders and even allowed me to use confetti on the table, which I suspect is a pain to clear off. And they came up to the Liberty restaurant to see us on the night of our vow renewal and to open the bottle of wine we had ordered, plus did their best to see to it that we'd be well taken care of on that night, which we were.
Boarding was always fast and easy (the only time we had to wait at all was for a tender in Kona, and even that wait wasn't too bad), and we were never bored! We had a group of 19 people and I never heard any complaints about the cruise from anyone.
Cabin Review
Balcony
Our balcony cabin didn't have nearly the storage space of our son's inside cabin (due to his cabin not having a sofa, I suspect) nor the storage we had on Carnival or Disney, but was far more spacious than our inside cabin for three on Celebrity for the Baltic Sea Cruise (where I couldn't even get to the bathroom once our son's "chair" turned into a "bed" at night). We were only a few doors away from the elevators but the cabin was plenty quiet other than for when we opened the balcony door to hear the ocean and then we once could hear from our bed a guy on his cell phone on the next balcony. We had a refrigerator, but it was full of stuff they want you to buy and even were it empty, it wouldn't have held the plate of chocolate covered strawberries our NCL rep gave us for our anniversary. I loved having the balcony to relax out on late at night and star gazing was great out at sea, as usual.