I picked this cruise over others because of the itinerary. Before we ever sailed, we had issues with our plane reservations which we booked through them. They never communicated with us anything about them and assumed that we just knew to go into their web site and look at our cruise documents for our plane ticket information. No one ever told us to do that. They failed to get us seats on our outbound flights which was a huge hassle since both my husband and I have disabilities. You can not call one number and get things done. You have to call one for the reservation, one for the plane, one for entertainment, one for dining. I was on the phone for hours as you would be on hold for up to 45 minutes. Many of the departments are only open on weekdays during business hours and this includes Premier Air even if you have an emergency and your plane is late as ours was. Our plane was 1 ½ hours late leaving the US be and we only had 15 minutes to make our connecting flight in Germany. By some miracle we made it.
Some other people from our state made it through NYC but their luggage did not. They were more than 50% through the cruise with no luggage and NCL took no responsibility for their luggage although they had booked their plane reservations through them. They try to cut the reservations too close to avoid people arriving too soon at the terminal. Beware making your plane reservations through them. I highly recommend arriving a day before. This is the first time I have arrived the day of the cruise. It was a nightmare.
The communications from NCL, except to not arrive at the port early, was the poorest of any cruise line I have ever been on in my life. They called, texted and emailed us not to arrive at the port early, yet could not communicate a single word about our plane tickets.
The cabin was in a good location, but smaller than I am use to for a balcony.