Having been long time "Cruise Critic" lurkers it's our usual pattern to start frequenting the "boards" as our cruise times start to get near. Who writes these reviews ?... folks that either love or hate their cruise experiences. The guys that don't write... generally just are happy enough to leave the rest of us to the fodder.

Like a mail-ordered-diploma none of us have to be qualified to speak our minds... some reviews have a basis... others not. The most frequent contributors are those folks who have a gripe... understandable... if they actually have enough previous cruise experience to know what to expect on the ship they're writing about. We do about 2-3 cruises a year... this review is being written as we walk in our door from our 7 day love/hate relationship with NCL... Norwegian Cruise Lines.

You can be sure that the reason we booked this cruise was for the convenience and the price... certainly not the food... but we'll get to that later. Read more