Thesullivanster

I'm looking at a cruise on Freedom of the Seas. I understand that a spacious balcony room generally means there is a tad more room and it has the square footage to show that. What I don't understand is why a spacious one would cost LESS than a regular one? $895 for regular and $859 for spacious. Is there some detraction from the spacious balcony that I'm missing? I don't know why someone would pay less for more space.

Thanks for your opinions! I should have specified that we pretty much have an idea of when we want to go and where, I was just keeping it general because I didn't want that to influence the responses since some ships only go certain places. We are likely not going to be able to do longer than 7 or 8 days this time but someday we will definitely do that panama canal one, that sounds like a really cool trip! Right now we have been looking a lot at one on the Dawn. Anyone else been on that ship? The other one we are looking at is a similar size out of LA but I can't remember the name of it right now.

Hi all! We are looking for opinions of veteran Norwegian cruisers. We love the line and are looking into our next cruise April 2019. Our first cruise was eastern carribean on the Jewell and our second was also eastern carribean with different stops on the Epic.

Here is what we learned about our preferences: how nice and new the epic was was nice but we pretty much liked everything else about the jewell way better. We are small ship people I think. On the epic, it seemed like the service, food and entertainment, while still great, was just slightly lower quality simply because of the number of people on the ship. we also hated the fact that there was never deck chairs available to lay out on unless you get up super early and put your towel on one. This was never a problem on the jewell and we think its because everything was just less busy in general.

In keeping these things in mind, can anyone who has tried a lot of ncl ships recommend a specific ship for our next cruise? We have been looking at cruises out of LA because we have never been western carribean and porting out of US is ideal for us. We dont really want to go to all those same stops we have been to, Belize, Honduras, etc. but it has to be warm. We are open to anything really though, even been looking out of san juan.

Really what we look for is good service, good food and the ability to lay out and have less wait time in general at bars and pretty much everywhere we go. Also we noticed that the crowd was more fun out of Houston than Florida. We are a young married couple who are getting a break from young children and want to get away from other peoples children too. going out of Florida was like 50% families with kids and 50% older people.

Hi all! We are looking for opinions of veteran Norwegian cruisers. We love the line and are looking into our next cruise April 2019. Our first cruise was eastern carribean on the pearl and our second was also eastern carribean with different stops on the Epic.

Here is what we learned about our preferences: how nice and new the epic was was nice but we pretty much liked everything else about the pearl way better. We are small ship people I think. On the epic, it seemed like the service, food and entertainment, while still great, was just slightly lower quality simply because of the number of people on the ship. We were not fans of the drag queen show but thats neither here nor there lol we also hated the fact that there was never deck chairs available to lay out on unless you get up super early and put your towel on one. This was never a problem on the pearl and we think its because everything was just less busy in general.

In keeping these things in mind, can anyone who has tried a lot of ncl ships recommend a specific ship for our next cruise? We have been looking at cruises out of LA because we have never been western carribean and porting out of US is ideal for us. We dont really want to go to all those same stops we have been to, Belize, Honduras, etc. but it has to be warm.

Really what we look for is good service, good food and the ability to lay out and have less wait time in general at bars and pretty much everywhere we go. Also we noticed that the crowd was more fun out of Houston than Florida. We are young married couple who are getting away from young children and want to get away from other peoples children too going out of Florida was like 50% families with kids and 50% older people.

Thanks in advance!