Norwegian Spirit Review
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This was our first time on NCL and I can honestly say we enjoyed it very much. The traffic getting into the terminal was pretty heavy (about 11:45) and I'm sure it only got worse. There were only 2 ships in town so I'm really sure it's a nightmare when there are even more ships there. The embarkation took about 45min-1hr from the front door to being on the ship. Not too bad I thought, torture for my 6yr old...Lunch buffet was waiting when we got on and you can go to your rooms at 2pm.
Rooms: the room we had was 9081 9th floor inside in the middle crossway. Definitely nice, out of the main traffic and not near anything very loud. The cabin steward was very nice and when he found out my DD liked the towel animals he made 1-2 a day for her. The room was clean and seemed bigger than other inside cabins we have been in. The shower was a very nice size with glass doors (unlike other cruises). T.V. for those who have to wait around for everyone else to get ready for dinner consists of CNN,ESPN,1 cartoon channel 1 movie channel and TNT. The rest is ship stuff.
Dining: We definitely love the Freestyle thing, go when you want where you want. There are video boards telling you which places have a wait and which do not. The food was good, typical cruise fare is a fair assessment I feel. The presentation was excellent but you felt you were missing something when you tasted it. The portion sizes I would describe as sensible to small. If you had all the courses, bread soup salad main course & dessert you didn't leave hungry. But if you are a main course kind of a person you are going to be disappointed. Ill give you an example, main course of lobster ravioli & shrimp dish consisted of exactly 2normal sized shrimp and 2 normal sized lobster ravioli and 3-4 stalks of asparagus. The service was good, sometimes a bit long between the soup & the main course (close to 1/2 hr one night) but that might have been from my DD ordering off the kids menu. I don't think they have the kids food accessible easily in the main dining rooms. (or they were just slow). Room service: Heard of 3-4hr wait times. I called one morning and was told pretty much to forget it, that they had no idea when they could get it to me. The next morning I was told a half hr wait which turned into an hour.