So this was my first time cruising with Norwegian. I’ve cruised on another line before, but it was my wife and I’s 10 year anniversary, so we decided to stay in The Haven. We also brought our infant son and my mother in law.

We flew in to SeaTac the morning of the cruise. I would have preferred to fly in the night before, but didn’t want to worry about lugging my son’s car seat everywhere with us. Traveling with kids already requires a lot of extra stuff. At any rate, when we got to baggage claim we saw representatives for NCL directing us to the bus transfers we paid for. They took our luggage from us, which was nice, and it later appeared at our stateroom.

I found the bus transfer process to be very hectic and disorganized. The outdoor holding area had passengers for the Joy, as well as princess. Everyone is given a different colored ticket to get on a bus. The problem we found was that there were so many people in the holding area, that voices easily drowned out the announcement of what color ticket would getting a bus ride. So then a bus shows up, goes to a random pickup spot, and large groups of people are moving to see if it’s there bus and trying to get on. I think a better way of doing it would be to designate pickup points. This line is for only green ticket, this line is for only white tickets etc. having the lines and bodies constantly intermingling and masses of people moving from one pickup spot to another was just ridiculous. It also took about an hour for our bus to arrive. However, that did not bother me too much because it’s about 20 miles each way from SeaTac to the pier. Read more