We left Ga on March 4, 2009 for our 9 day NCL cruise from Miami Fla. We stayed at the Fortune House Condo in downtown Miami. Miami is not an easy city, the Fortune House was not as bad as the reviews, however, it had a lot of modern doors, lighting, closet space and a beautiful view of the bay. Beware they only offer $20.00 per day valet parking, there are not trolleys to take your bags up to your room, as we were driving an SUV we had to take all of our cruise luggage up by ourselves. There was not coffee pot, We had 4 people, all adults, and the sofa did not make into a bed, as we had thought. Breakfast was only for 2 and you had to pay for the other guests with you, staff very business like but not friendly, they were all foreigners and acted like they did not understand most of what we said. It was in downtown but off a side street with other hotels and a very beautiful part of Miami on the bay. They said we could see the cruise ships but that did not happen, beware when the website or hotel tells you that in Miami. You could see them way in the distance as they came in at night, just a lot of lights, but not the actual ships in port, it is blocked by other buildings.

Embarkation was very easy with NCL, they sit you down and take you in groups on board so there was not the usual long lines

Once on the ship, they serve champagne and orange juice, I must have misunderstood I thought it said champagne and mimosa's. Read more