I will try to complete this review in sections to make it reader friendly and hopefully helpful!
Some background:
I took this cruise with my husband and our two teenage daughters, 13 and 16. While this was our first cruise on NCL, we have all cruised before: 5 on RCI, 2 on Carnival and 1 on Disney. Because I wanted to cruise Glacier Bay, my choices were somewhat limited. My TA recommended giving NCL a try.
LOVED our stateroom! We have sailed on prior sailings in a mixed bag of rooms. Depending on price I sometimes will book and inside vs. a balcony. But I decided with Alaska, I was going to book a balcony. We booked a mini suite on deck 11. #11098. I loved everything about the mini suite. The bathroom was the biggest we have ever had on a ship, including Disney, and it had a full tub/shower. The room itself had enough elbow room for the four of us, it had plenty of drawer and storage space, and the décor was lovely. I will note here that I peeked into other mini suites, and the décor in other rooms I saw was tacky. I have no idea why our room was different, but we had a soft beige carpet with a light green ivy pattern, and maroon accents in the room. The closet/desk and drawers were a nice walnut color. As long as the room is clean I don’t really care what it looks like, but I did really appreciate our room color scheme when I saw the other rooms! And I can’t understand why ours was different. At any rate, doesn’t matter… moving on…. There was a hairdryer in the room that was one of the best “away from home” hair dryers I have ever used, good power. Our balcony was very clean and I am pretty sure it must have been recently painted, it was pristine white. We had two chairs and a small table. And we had a WONDERFUL week of sunny mild weather, so I used our balcony a lot! There was a stocked mini fridge in the room, with ample room for us to put in our water/soda that we brought on board.