My wife and I wanted to join my niece and her husband in getting a taste of Europe and experiencing some places we never been to before. Having been on many NCL cruises before and having booked the Butler/Concierge level suite we were expecting a much better experience than what we had. Now don't get me wrong, when it came to the average crew member all I can offer is high praise. The butler Randy, Room Steward Wesley, Maria who tended bar, The Sommelier in Cagney's to name just a few) were spectacular. It is people like this who make we want to continue to cruise NCL as they each went above and beyond my expectations and made a great vacation for us. The room was average, decent size, but far smaller than the forward suite we had on our Alaskan Cruise. I would've rated this cruise higher except for the following reasons:

1. From around January of the year of the cruise, I was calling NCL weekly trying to get them to book me into their hotel in Barcelona. I kept getting told that they were not yet available and try in another week. This went on through September when suddenly I'm told there must've been a computer glitch because now they are completely booked up and I had to find my own place to stay.

2. Found my own place to stay, then one afternoon my wife says she happened to look at the NCL site and noticed that we are no longer at Barcelona, but it was changed to Terragona for embarkation and Monaco was removed as a port and replaced with Cannes. Again, this in itself is not a problem as I understand that port changes are something Cruise lines can and will do at times. The problem I have is with NCLs lack of communication, I should not have had to stumble across this but should have been contacted with this information and be available to answer questions I may have about the changes. Read more