We are a late 40s-early 50s couple who have cruised on HAL, NCL, and Carnival on 12 cruises. This cruise was a celebration of our 5th wedding anniversary. We were married on the NCL Sun and continue to cruise for our anniversary every year. Overall, we were very impressed with the Westerdam's understated decor, variety of musical entertainment, excellent service and crew attitude ("can-do" from everyone encountered) and the food served.

The weather unfortunately was pretty bad for this cruise, in fact the worst I have seen in 25 years of cruising. Last year we went right through Tropical Storm Olga on the Miracle and thought that was bad but it only lasted a day. This week had several days of clouds, high winds (Gale Force 7), choppy seas and extreme side to side rolling of the ship. A cold front had dropped down so quite chilly as well. We have strong constitutions so we did not get ill, but one day our room steward told us that half of his cabins had "do not disturb" and were suffering from seasickness.

CABIN: Our cabin (5190) was fabulous. Lots of cabin storage, comfortable bed and furnishings, huge bathroom. There were some issues with maintenance at first (light burned out over dressing table, shower cord twisted and no water coming out) but these were quickly taken care of when reported to our very efficient Room Steward, Indra . Interior furnishings were in good shape, however the lounge chairs on the balcony and ottomans had areas of torn rattan. We were surprised that a suite would have such ratty looking balcony furniture. Read more