Friends recommend the liner. We stopped at lovely places and had fantastic experiences. The restaurant staff were absolutely incredible. Attentive, friendly, professional, knowledgeable. Couldn't have been better. Our cabin was awful on the 4th level, but we did book an open allocation hoping for a better one, so that was partly our own fault. However I think that NCL aught to warn passengers and they shouldn't really have cabins in those parts of the ship at that high price! We were above the laundry and at the front so it was very noisy at night. If the waves were high it made a very loud crashing noise all night against our wall! We had a dripping sound in the wall between us and the cabin next door and a loud thudding from the laundry presumably. We liked the free dining options and the food was excellent everywhere we ate. The pool was crowded and not much fun..too small for the number of people. Overall, as cruise ships go, this is probably a good one. We just had a lousy cabin which coloured the trip for us!