Instead of writing a long essay, we’re posting our running notes from our recent two weeks on NS. HAL has been repositioned in the Carnival Corporation stable of brands at a much lower level, similar to Princess, and far below Cunard, whereas it used to be much closer to Cunard in style and refinement. We won’t consider cruising with HAL again at any price. For the record, we had a VB level verandah.

Here are our notes:

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