This review describes our 8-day cruise from LA to the Mexican Riviera on the Norwegian Star sailing on October 5th, 2006. This was our 4th cruise with NCL and our 7th cruise overall. We have sailed on Carnival and Royal Caribbean as well. We are a married couple from Connecticut and both are 50 years old. This was our first cruise on the west coast and we were both looking forward to visiting the ports on the Mexican Riviera.

I work for a company based in Irvine, CA. I had arranged for a business trip to visit the headquarters, so we had spent a few days in Orange County using a rental car out of John Wayne airport. On the day of our embarkation, we dropped the rental car off at the Long Beach airport and took a shuttle to the cruise port in San Pedro.

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