We chose this cruise again this year and perhaps we shouldn't have.

Lots of little minor things that added up to a not spectacular cruise. It didn't get off to the best start. We were staying the night before embarkation in a hotel in Manhattan. Luckily i managed to go on to the Hotel's free wifi before checking out on the morning of the cruise. I am a member of the CC roll call and just wanted to check what people were saying. They were saying the ship was to be delayed arriving in port and all the allocated arrival times were no longer valid. Now, we realise unforeseen circumstances can arise (bad weather)but apparently this was known from the day previous to sail-away that this was the case. We received no email/text or phone call from NCL regarding this and luckily hadn't flown in and headed straight to the port (apparently a few fellow Brits had) it would have been a long wait! In the day of 24/7 communication this wasn't good enough and it seemed only the people coming from the UK had no communication but perhaps this was not the case.

As a result of the 5 hour delay, we arrived in Cape Canaveral very late and our excursion to Kennedy Space Centre was cancelled by NCL. This was going to be one of our highlights too. To add to our disappointment when we eventually got clearance to leave the ship we met people coming back on who had stepped on to the cruise port and had about turned, ALL was closed in the terminal so no opportunity to buy souvenirs. We were surprised at this as 4,000 passengers could have generated a good income. Read more