We did a Norwegian Cruise in Hawaii, around the various islands. We paid for State Rooms, and they had no problem cashing the check, and giving us balcony’s below the galley’s where we were serenaded with pots and pans into the late night, and were waken each morning at 4am to vacuum cleaners going over the floors, and breakfast shift beginning the day’s feasts.
In the evenings, we feasted on day old Sarah Lee bread, and meals that were fixed “cafeteria style”; our rooms were cleaned promptly by 4:30pm, or not. The staff was American, and generally not happy about their jobs. Despite the “sailing” being between the various Hawaiian islands, the ship was in dismal condition.
I took photo’s and documented what happened, and everyone in the party (family, celebrating Mom and Dad In-Law’s Diamond Anniversary) was given a credit equal to the price of the cruise. We passed, we wasted one vacation on Norwegian, we won’t waste another when we have had such wonderful cruises on Princess, Celebrity and Carnival. Norwegian is the cheapest of the cruise lines - for a reason.
I suggest you drop the extra ~$100 and go on Carnival, or Royal Caribbean - and see what cruising is really all about. You don’t know what you are missing, until you see what you have missed.
Maybe you can help. Friend of our in Florida (she’s a travel agent) always keep begging us to go on a cruise but I don’t like the party all night crowd, the kiddie crowd, or the wear a suit to dinner crowd. Who has the best cruises for casual adults?