This was my second cruise, first for my partner. Cruised before with NCL and was so impressed with them that I wanted to try it again.

Our "obstructed view" cabin was great. It was on deck 8 and was oriented fore-aft instead of port-starboard, which made it feel roomier than the standard port-starboard oriented staterooms. We were lucky that our window was between two lifeboats, so we could actually see out the window and had something of a view. The room was well appointed with enough storage space for all our stuff, although this particular orientation had only one set of drawers for storage instead of two sets in the other obstructed staterooms. The bathroom was bigger than on the last cruise I took and felt quite roomy. It was always spotlessly clean.

Our room steward was very good. We never actually saw her until the last day when we were leaving the room for the last time. But she kept the room up very nicely, beds made up, ice in the ice bucket, clean towels, towel sculptures, etc. And she always managed to get in for the "turn-down" service while we were out and about after dinner. The bed was comfy and I just love the European style bed covers. Read more