Pride of America Review

NCL Hawaii Cruise Somewhat of a Disappointment

Review for Hawaii Cruise on Pride of America
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2-5 Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Dec 2011
Cabin: Balcony

This was our third cruise, over 30 years....and our 50th state. Hawaii is beautiful. Because of our total unfamiliarity with the state we elected to rely heavily on the organized tours at the ports of call. It was the easiest way for a couple of seniors to learn the lay of the land, so to speak. If we ever go to Hawaii again we'll rely more on car rentals and drive ourselves to places we are interested in seeing and photographing.

In a nut shell....the ship's staff was great. All the crew members were extremely courteous and helpful, without exception. Always going the extra step to assist us.

The ship was NCL's Pride of America. Somewhat of a disappointment. Rather cramped stateroom with a small balcony which was about half the size of our balcony on the Princess Sapphire two years ago. Our safe, where I wanted to store my wife's Ipad, was defective and we had to call for a crew member to come and fix it. At least three mornings we had no hot water in the head. So no hot shower available those mornings. The king size bed was fairly comfortable but the couch (a hide-a-bed) was horrendously uncomfortable to sit on. There was no computer WI-FI available on our deck so, to download our home town newspaper, I had to take the Ipad down to deck 5 or to the library on deck 6 to get a useable signal. Even there it was excruciatingly slow. Very frustrating. Unlike other ships we've cruised on, this one's PA system did not reach into the stateroom. The result was that we missed many announcement that were made over that system. They could be heard out in the passageway....but not in the stateroom.

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Balcony

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8602 - deck 8, on the port side of the ship...about mid-ship.

Tiny balcony. Cramped cabin. No access to PA announcements in the cabin. Couch very uncomfortable. Closet and drawer space was sufficient. (we travel rather light). We had good view. The life boats were below our level. Short walk to the mid-ship elevators. No hot water on three days in the morning. Very clean. Adequate lighting but you just about have to turn them all on with the single switch in order to have sufficient light for reading. The bed mattress was so-so. We slept well....but we were exhausted at the end of each day's activities so it was easy to drop off to sleep.

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