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Norwegian Cruise Line

MS Norwegian Sky

Your Rating:Five Stars
Reviewed by: D.M. Berkely
# previous cruises: 10+
Date of Trip: March 4, 2001
Itinerary: Caribbean - Eastern

Overview
Excellent ship, cruise and staff. Satisfactory activities, especially good for active, younger groups. I highly recommend the Sky and we want to cruise again on NCL ships with "Freestyle" approach in dining (anytime, anywhere), tipping charged $10 pp per day on credit card and late departure from ship. We were pleasantly surprised on this first cruise on NCL.

Public Areas
Very good although open areas more limited than some other, newer cruise liners. Poor library.

Food and Service
Excellent and one of the greatest strengths of ship. Freestyle approach in dining superb and much better than other cruise lines I have used (except Rennaissance R ships). 3 restaurants have even better cuisine: Italian, Asian and Continental ("Le Bistro- which we liked the best) with a requirement of $10 pp extra plus a tip. Four seasons and Seven Seas restaurants had same kitchen and menu. Top deck buffet had more choices but quality not as good as restaurants. We want to return to Freestyle dining.

Cabins
Outside, large porthole cabin which was spacious in comparison to some other cruise lines (RCI ship cabins were much smaller). Cabin had a refrigerator (not a mini-bar), laptop modem jack (high access charges), shower with adequate space and many comfortable features. TV has outside AV jacks for viewing your camcorder shots (bring recharger and extra tapes). TNT movies along with one movie channel which was free. Usual CNN and ship info channels. (turn up volume on channel which shows the bow of the ship camera view: it gives you the announcements into your cabin). Adequate closet but small. Quiet area around our cabin except when loading bags.

Entertainment
Didn't go to many shows.

Activities
I had already been to all the ports multiple times so I enjoyed the ship. I got off at San Juan, rode the free trollies and used the Internet Cafe' across from the ship terminal. I shopped in St. Thomas..porcelain prices for Lladro' still are cheaper than U.S. In St. Thomas, leave an hour or more before ship departure...traffic jams. Know from which marina you have departed to go into the city. We have beaches, pools and spas in Florida home location so we did not use pool or spas on ship. I did not care for most of the activities.

Who Goes
Fellow passengers were very nice and in general, a quieter, more affluent group than Carnival passengers. Some Europeans were aboard.

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