My husband and I chose to go on a cruise for our honeymoon. After doing all of the planning for our wedding, it was nice choosing a vacation that neither of us had to do a whole lot of planning for because it was already planned for us. We left from Tampa on the Norwegian Dawn. We had 2 days at sea and stopped in ports at Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; Costa Maya, Mexico; and Cozumel, Mexico. The days at sea were a nice opportunity to enjoy the ship and meet people. We purchased the deal that the spa had on the first day to have access to the pool, hot tubs, steam rooms and sauna. We definitely got our money's worth, going down to the spa at least once or more every day. The staff knew us by name and even knew which locker we preferred and always saved it for us to use. The fact that children were not allowed at the spa was a huge perk for us, as we both loved children but didn't really want to be around kids on our honeymoon. The views from the spa were also enjoyable.

The sports bar was great and had all of the football games showing throughout the week. We even met some other couples from Charlotte when we went down to watch the Panthers game on Sunday night. The casino was another fun place to meet people. The dealers were great and remembered our names and were very friendly do us.

On the first night on board, we put our name into the drawing to dine with an officer on board the ship. We never expected to actually be chosen but we were. That was one of the biggest highlights of the entire week. We dined with Miseur Alain, the hotel director who is originally from France. He was very entertaining with lots of stories and advice for future cruising. It was on this night that we already started planning our next cruise. I highly recommend putting your name in for this dinner. It was very entertaining and educational and on top of that, we were served free wine for the entirety of our meal. Read more