This review is in regards to a cruise on NCL "Pride of Aloha". Myself, my wife, and several friends booked a cruise from Blue World Travel to cruise aboard the "Pride of America" NCL's newest ship. This was a chartered occasion to be held from 08/01 to 08/07 2004. Earlier in the year of 2004 I was notified by Blue World Travel that the "Pride of America" had sustained severe damage due to a storm while in dock. Due to the damage the "Pride Of Aloha" (which was the "SKY") built in 1999, was going to be renovated to sail in place of "Pride of America".

This was going to be me and my wife's 24th cruise, and as always we were looking forward to this cruise to Hawaii. We had cruised with NCL in the earlier years on board the "Starward and Southward". And we still have fond memories of those cruises. The "Starward" being our very fist cruise. So you can see by the number of cruises we have been on, we enjoy cruising very much. And since we had not been on and NCL cruise in years we were very excited because of the fun and good time's we had on the "Starward" back in 1983. As far as we were concerned there was no such thing as a bad cruise.

And than we sailed on the "Pride of Aloha", BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!!!!!! This cruise was the worst vacation experience while on broad this ship. First the embarkation process by NCL was a total disaster. People started boarding the ship Sun. at noon, pre-registration was done for hundreds of passengers including myself who arrived two days prior to speed up boarding the ship, at the same time prevent crowd's. It was horrible, the buses were dropping people off faster than you could board the ship. I stood in one of the six line's they had turning into two line's to enter. It was a mob scene. Read more