I picked this ship and this sailing because it was out of New York and I wanted to go north. I had been on Norwegian previously and had to go experience. This was also a very good experience my only issue with the cruise was the fact that they only put on One show per evening, unlike celebrity and Disney which has two seatings per night. I therefore the first thing we had to do when we got on the ship was make our reservations for the shows. This was absolutely not what we wanted to do when we first got on the ship but we knew it was necessary otherwise Not only would we miss out on the basic shows we'd miss out on Six which was just coming on board. So that was annoying. It takes out the spontaneity of when you want to go and it forces everyone to pretty much eat dinner around the same time so they can get there for the one and only show.

We ate in two specialty restaurants Cagney's and the French restaurant. As native New Yorkers who can get virtually any food from any restaurant we were very very impressed with both restaurants. My husband continues to talk about Cagney's and we are going back on the Breakaway in October in Europe and he can't wait for me to rebook the restaurant. We've never been to Greece before but the restaurant is all he speaks of.

Having recently been to Newport we skipped getting off the ship that day and basically we had the run of the ship and my husband was able to go down the slide numerous times as no one else was waiting for it so that was very good because on sea days there's no ability to get a lounge by the pool. Having been on many cruises this is not indicative of Norwegian only. Read more