My wife and I along with two other friends received a free cruise from our local hockey team for buying some tickets so we decided to take a getaway in the middle of the cold months. We chose the Sky because it offered us the best date selection and we had not been on NCL before. This was by far the smallest ship any of us had been on. Embarkation was easy we did most of it on-line before so it moved quick fairly painless one of the easiest we have ever had actually.

We boarded and walked the whole ship it was fairly small by our previous experiences we checked out all the dinning rooms and bars and everything else withing 25 minutes. So we decided to go to lunch (there were 4 of us in our group). We decided to go to the dinning room because their options looked better than the buffet (it was horridly small). We met another group of 4 who the sat us next to and began to talk. Thank god we could talk to them it took us 2 hours to eat lunch it was the same for the other table. Our server was the same and she had to be the rudest person I have ever met on a cruise ship.

After that we managed to get everything together and do all the regular stuff that you do. The muster drill seemed more like a military exercise than something on a vacation. Our crew reps were forcing us to stand in perfect lines with no talking and no room for fun. I have been a firefighter and paramedic for over a decade this is something simple and easy but they were making it out to be brain surgery. Read more