We took this Dec 10th cruise. Overall it's not bad if you have no/low expectation. Consider taking this cruise if you plan to just kick back and relax. They do have children activity areas (price included in cruise price, except for port days) where you could leave your kids and have some private time with your partners. Do not listen to the morons here who are suggesting leaving your kids at home. If this is not for kids then there is no other cruise that is for kids. For adults, we saw little sections where adults had created for themselves where families did not barge into. I am giving 2 stars mainly because of NCL management and food.

Check-in: It was a breeze. Left our bags with porters and went straight to obtain our key cards. There was almost no crowd around 12:30 PM. We were two adults, a 5 years old and a 7 months old. All of us were given our own key cards.

Photos/Gallery: This is a HUGE money spinner for NCL. They start clicking from the time, even before you board the ship. From there, they are everywhere (except in restrooms, of course) with their cameras in hands. Because it's a big money spinner, the whole crew push for it. On second night, they had the 'dress up or not' (it did not feel special later when we found out that they had this event for two nights) event. That night we were all dressed up and thought of taking a picture with the captain of the ship. When we said hello to him he had no smile on his face and felt like he really didn't want to be there. Funny enough we realized later that he was smiling in the picture. They take your picture if you like it or not. Then they print every god damn picture they clicked. Only 10% of them end up buying. Who is taking the rest of 90% printing cost and their operating cost......exactly!, ,,,the one who are buying! So, this is how the pictures are so expensive. Read more