Pride of America Review

NCL Pride of America - Best Ever! Sailed Hawaii May 24-31, 2014

Review for Hawaii Cruise on Pride of America
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flgranny4
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: May 2014

My husband and I celebrated our 20th anniversary and my 60th birthday with a gift to ourselves of this great cruise. This was my 3rd cruise and my husband's 1st cruise. My husband didn't like the idea of being "stuck" on a ship and not getting off if he wanted to but by the first day he was singing a different tune and was loving all the stuff to do on the ship and said we shouldn't have book so many excursions. The ship was more than we imagined and had so much space to put all of our stuff. We were spending 3 days before the cruise in Aston Waikiki Beachside Hotel (excellent hotel if you want to save money and be close to everything), the 7 days cruised, and then 7 days in a timeshare unit on Maui so we had to pack a lot of clothes because we didn't have access to a washer/dryer until we got to Maui (10 days after we started our trip) - everything fit in the great little cubby holes/drawers/closet. We had a aft balcony room on the 8th deck that was amazing! I loved going outside to see the views and took lots of pictures.

The room steward was amazing - he cleaned the room every time we left the room and kept every fresh and clean. The servers in all of the restaurants were also very good at their job and made very good recommendations and never rush our meals - this is a big plus because we were supposed to be relaxing! We purchased the ultimate dinning plan because of the cost of the specialty restaurants it made sense to pay the extra $119 pp because I read great reviews on upgrading. My favorite restaurant was the Jefferson Bistro - they have the best lamb chops! My husbands favorite was the steak house. Every thing we ate was great - it didn't matter if it was breakfast buffet, poolside lunch, or the special restaurants.

The on-ship activities were plenty and we didn't get to use them all because of the excursions I had booked before we sailed - if I had the Daily News that they put in the room with the next days activities I could have done more on-ship stuff we seemed to be off-ship with the stuff I would have picked to do on-ship and most of the excursions were so early that we didn't get to do any of the nighttime activities - we were just too tired after dinner! The off-ship excursions were:

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Excellent! Would love to go again, and again!

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