Solid partial view with larger bathroom than Princess or Carnival, maybe just lucky with the Star, but who spends time in the cabin, LOL

Very Easy port do DIY, plan to spend either a couple days before or after cruise, we did before.   

Venice

Easy to DIY, broken tendering process here as noted.    Found the hike to the top of the old fort and a nice meal town a great 1/2, too bad we lost an hour just waiting for our tender

Kotor

Grabbed a taxi to spend a relaxing day at the beach then back to the ship, a perfect relaxing day.

Corfu

Besides the long wait in the theater and standard pricey cruise tour it was good to get a separate tendering boat to the port and a small private bus tour of the archelogical site, Oia, then Fira, an very below average meal and a little free time in Oia and Fira.   If I had to do it again, might consider DIY, but not having to fight the crowds is a plus and likely worth given the $ to NCL

Mykonos

Another easy DIY port, short taxi ride to nice beach for a lovely afternoon

Argostoli (Kefalonia)

Grabbed a cab to the top of the cable car then driver dropped us off at the old city entrance, a nice DIY day!

Dubrovnik

Did two specialty restuarants and they were solid, but if I had to pay would say they were only as good as main dining on Princess, but with more personal service, so luckily they were free, LOL

DIY tours at Kotur, Corfu, Mykonos, Argostoli and Dubronvick,   did NCL Ultimate Santorini to avoid the crazy tendering if you don't have a tour, was still a mess but at least got to see the big things.Picked the Star for the port lineup; 6 ports in 7 days, can't beat that ( Kotor, Corfu, Santorini, Mykonos, Argostoli, and Dubrovnick

Loved the Freestyle dining and on ship good service was very good and low upsell, get high ratings for this!

Norwegian Star Review

Great ports, great service, very average food/entertainment

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