Norwegian Spirit Review

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Just not our bag

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mchall6252
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jan 2010
Cabin: Balcony

First, I need to state that we are experienced travelers, except when it comes to cruising. We have cruised just one other time - the Alaskan Inside Passage about five years ago on the Celebrity Mercury. One of the reasons we have shied away from cruising is that I have a propensity to get seasick. I was fine on the Alaska cruise (wore the patch) but the rough seas we experienced on this cruise (wave spray splashing OVER the 11th deck) were more than I could handle.

We made our first mistake by booking a room so high and so far forward. We didn't research this well enough, and now realize that I would have been much better off in the middle of the ship. Also, our room was right under the night club and it was incredibly noisy. A couple of nights (well, really, early mornings) we heard the pounding bass from the music over our heads until 2 am.

Other than the wrong location, the cabin was fine. The bathroom was roomy, the bed was comfortable, and everything seemed to work OK after we got the closet doors fixed while we were unpacking. This seems to be a problem - we heard of others with the same issue, the doors came off the tracks or jammed so that you could not open the doors at all. One strange thing is that when we were packing up on Saturday night, we found an abandoned suitcase under our bed! Gotta wonder how long that had been there, and when was the last time someone cleaned under the bed???

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Our cabin was directly below the night club - bad, bad idea unless you're going to be in the club until it closes. It was very, very noisy until the club closed, 2 am one morning! The cabin was ok, the balcony was good but we rarely used it because of the terrible weather. The bathroom was very good and very roomy. The closet was plenty large enough and there was enough storage for all our belongings. The cabin lacks AC outlets, but I brought a multi-outlet adapter and that worked out just fine. It was convenient enough to everything.

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