My wife and I went to Hawaii on our honeymoon and always said we would go back for our 25th Anniversary. The honeymoon was 12 days and we visited 3 islands. For this anniversary trip we could only take a week off so this cruise seemed like the best way to see the most and get back to all the same islands we visited on our honeymoon.
We have cruised probably 20 times, but never on NCL... Princess, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Carnival. When I first started researching this cruise with NCL I was excited. We booked it almost a year ago. Then I started reading the reviews and thought... YIKES... did we make a mistake? Have you noticed there are very few middle of the road reviews for NCL and this ship... people either love it or HATE it and it seems the hate it is in the majority!
Well, onto the cruise. We did add one extra day to the itinerary and flew into Honolulu on Friday. Stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. I guess it helped with the jet lag, but we pretty much spent the whole cruise waking up early and going to bed early. We barely could stay awake to watch the lava flow as it wasn't till almost 10PM!