THESE ARE MY OPINIONS ON MY CRUISE. We vacation a couple times a year work permitting, so we know our stuff. this is our second NCL cruise and maybe our 20th or so cruise overall. we do like the freestyle come and go as you please, and find we can pack less because we dont have to pack all the fancy clothes like on silversea. we are both in our early 50's and enjoy longer cruises and sea days. longer cruises typically have less children and an older crowd (most of the time).

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we arrived to the ship at about 11am more or less we stayed just a few minutes from port and were on board in less then an hour, and in our room to drop off the bags in no time. getting off in LA we had a car service, so at 7am we went for a quick last breakfast the driver called at 7:30 we were self baggage and off the ship by 7:45am and with no one in line for customs in the car by 8:05am. we live in los angeles so we were home by 9:15am they had two doors open on disembarkation and that early in the morning it all was smooth. Read more