This was out 6th cruise with NCL... We enjoyed the cruise and like cruising with NCL but had two bad experiences this time that will keep us from cruising with NCL until we have cruised with RCL a couple of times... Overall we have been on 11 cruises and the main reason we have cruised with NCL and Carnival is that we can drive to New Orleans in 5 hours....

Overall the cruise was good but our first and only meal in the MDR was on the first night aboard... We had the lobster and filet beef... Not very good at all... the lobster was so small and very chewy and the filet was not good at all in any way... It was not a filet but a thin strip steak with many tough bites that could not be swallowed.... Because of that and because we found the buffet to be great we chose not to eat any other times in the MDR...

We chose to leave the ship in New Orleans on Sunday Morning and carried our two small carry on's off the ship as advertised by NCL.... WOW! what a mistake.... we had been told we could leave the ship at 7:45 a.m. so we arrived on deck 6 with our two small luggage's at 8:00 a.m. To our great surprise there were approximately 1000 passengers ( per the front desk) waiting in line on deck 6... The line went down the length of the ship in one hallway and back up the other hallway...(this is a 8:10 a.m.) over half of these passengers had large suitcases and the hallways were almost blocked and unpassable....No one was allowed to leave the ship... Read more