We wanted to try sailing out of New York. We've sailed from New Orleans, Galveston, Tampa and three times from Miami. When I google mapped the route from LaGuardia and it said over an hour to go 10 miles, I couldn't believe it. But it took well over an hour on a shuttle/tour bus. Nice ride from the airport. After the cruse we took the 3 or 4 hour tour offered by Norwegian. Well worth it, we had time to kill before our flight anyway. We got to see many of the places we've seen on TV; the bull, Rockefeller plaza, times square and many more. Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there, way too busy for a Midwesterner like me.

On the way out of port we saw the statue of liberty, the front of her. From the park off of the interstate you only see the back of the statue. It was raining both on departure and return but, the view was still spectacular. It rained almost every day we were gone but, it cleared up for the beach day and for a little pool time.

The best part of the cruise was the thermal pass. We had thought about getting one on the last cruise but didn't get around to it. The first day on the ship we were walking around getting our bearings and stopped in the spa. After a shoulder rub and some sweet smelling potions we decided to go for it. Best decision of the cruise. We missed the first day thinking they said open until 11pm and getting there at 9:50 only to find out it closed at 10 but, after that we when every day. Steam room, sauna, three different whirlpools, heated loungers. Got to admit on the last day we were the ones that others probably complained about. We met another couple and got talking in the big whirlpool. The one with the chairs and the high pressure sprayer and the fence like structure that you can lean on and talked so much and over the noise that other people started giving us those looks. Sorry enjoying ourselves. Read more