Norwegian Star Review

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NCL Star March 6 2016 Sailing

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6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Mar 2016
Cabin: Family Suite
Traveled with children

We had wonderful cruise! A really great family vacation! I will preface this by saying, we do not expect everything to be perfect and we try to remain flexible, which was necessary for certain aspects of this cruise. Our embarkation and debarkation was super smooth.

We have been cruising every year during the first week of March, to avoid spring break crowds later in the month. Well, because of leap year this year evidently many colleges bumped their breaks up a week. We cruised out of Tampa on the Star and two colleges in Tampa were on spring break and the Star was loaded with them. I think our cruise was sailing close to passenger capacity, or at least it seemed that way.

Fortunately we were able to upgrade to a family suite for this cruise and thank goodness we did so....this allowed us to stay away from the "breakers", as we referred to them, for breakfast and lunch using mainly the dining option for those in the suites. We then used specialty dining for most of the cruise along with an evening at Ginza and one in the Versailles main dining. The breakers did not use the specialty dining when we were there. The one night in Versailles we were surrounding by about 60 of them at large loud group tables and it was not enjoyable.

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Family Suite

Cabin SJ

Our suite was wonderful, quiet, clean and well appointed. We had room 12518. We had five in our suite (3 adults and two kids) and really appreciated the extra large bathroom space and large shower! I had read a review indicating the joggers using the jogging track above our room were loud, early in the morning. We never heard anything like that. We had a wonderful butler and room steward. We will definitely look to book a suite again, because of the many amenities which accompany it.

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