The ship: We had a quiet and clean inside cabin on the 9th deck. The room is small, but comfortable, with a nice size shower! There was no refrigerator in our room, but our room stewards did well with supplying us with ice. Our room stewards did a great job with our room despite having lots of rooms in our hallway that contained teenagers and kids, which gave them a huge workload. We told them to skip our room a couple times. Here is a tip that your cabin stewards will appreciate: on Cozumel day tell them to not worry about cleaning your room, we just exchanged towels. This is the one port where they can get off the ship to communicate with their families and do a little shopping. The ship's overall crew seemed very friendly and helpful. The only problem we had was while eating breakfast on the 12th deck outside, my husband got sprayed with a deck washer's hose. This has happened to me before on a previous cruise. My husband asked him to stop since he was trying to eat; the employee looked at him, stopped, and began spraying again this time the water landed in my husband's food. My favorite relaxing areas on the ship were the comfortable loungers on the 7th deck and the chairs and loungers on the 12th and 13th decks. They were great places to watch the sun rise and set. I also enjoyed the swim-against-the-current pools which were located within the fitness center and the sauna inside the spa. The library had a large selection of books to use for free.

Entertainment: Soozy our cruise director was funny and personable. The NCL Production Company were very good, but lacked some pizzazz of other singers and dancers we have seen on previous cruises. Our favorite was the Second City Comedy Troupe and their improv show which was hilarious. We also enjoyed listening to Prism and Selwyn Wright in the clubs.

Dining: For the first time in our cruise history, we really enjoyed the buffet. We ate all of our breakfasts and lunch up there as well as three of our dinners. We just loved the views and eating in the open air outside on the 12 deck aft. While not gourmet by any means, the buffet had a wide variety of different foods. I thoroughly enjoyed the salads which they freshly prepared, the pasta bar, and especially the Indian food, which I thought was delicious. The desserts that you can grab and go looked a lot like a tasteless gelatin like substance, but they had a nice selection of fruits, a crepe station, ice cream, and a chocolate fountain, where if you grab a bowl of ice cream they will smother it in chocolate for a very tasty sundae. We also ate at the Windows dining area twice which was our favorite dining room due the elegant ambience and great service. The Windows was also nice since they allow more casual attire with the same great service. They didn't really have the traditional lobster night on this cruise in the main dining rooms, which was disappointing. They did include some small lobster pieces in a couple of entrees though. Cagney's was fantastic with Prime quality steaks. Read more