First time on NCL and everything was great. Easy embarkation and disembarkation. Restaurants, bars, our cabin and most of the Staff were everything we were expecting. We went with another couple who had recommended NCL to begin with. We at twice at Cagney's Steakhouse and Le Bistro. We had everything from snails to steak and it was delicious each time. We had booked a number of shore excursions that mostly we enjoyed. We could have used more information about the Flam train ride. It dropped us off then left with everyone's backpacks still on it. The excursion to Dublin wasn't very good. Our hop on/off bus driver had to spend so much time at the 1st stop explaining he wasn't the Spanish speaking driver, we lost a lot of time at other sights. To be fair we had booked our own tour of Jameson's Distillery and had to get off the bus to make it on time. In general there seemed to be a problem with the shore excursions. We were rounded up in the theater first, given stickers, told to wait. And the staff couldn't have been more overwhelmed and unfriendly, from the Manager down. I can't remember seeing a smile from any of them whether on the pier or at the Shore Excursion desk. We learned it's better to book your own shore excursions. We had two of them in Scotland & Ireland that were wonderful. Having said that we signed up for more NCL cruises with their deposit plan. We loved out time on the Pearl!