Norwegian Pearl

I know there has been quite a bit of pro and con discussion about NCL on
this newsgroup, but has anyone had any recent experience on or about the
Norwegian Pearl?
TIA,

--Jean

Jean O'Boyle wrote:
> I know there has been quite a bit of pro and con discussion about NCL on
> this newsgroup, but has anyone had any recent experience on or about the
> Norwegian Pearl?
> TIA,
>
> --Jean
>
>
I seem to recall that Peg and Derek loved that ship.

>> I know there has been quite a bit of pro and con discussion about NCL on
>> this newsgroup, but has anyone had any recent experience on or about the
>> Norwegian Pearl?
>> TIA,

> I seem to recall that Peg and Derek loved that ship.

I'm not sure, Erm...I think that was the Norwegian Spirit...the one you and
I liked so much.

--Jean

We now cruise with NCL exclusively, and love all of the ships that we
have been on--Gem, Spirit and the Dawn. We have never sailed on the
Pearl, but we have had very good reports about her. Lori Cunningham
(Cruise TA extraordinaire) was on her just recently, so she might be a
good one to ask.

Bestest,

PegNDerek



On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:54:25 -0400, Ermalee <Ermalee> wrote:

>Jean O'Boyle wrote:
>> I know there has been quite a bit of pro and con discussion about NCL on
>> this newsgroup, but has anyone had any recent experience on or about the
>> Norwegian Pearl?
>> TIA,
>>
>> --Jean
>>
>>
>I seem to recall that Peg and Derek loved that ship.

> We now cruise with NCL exclusively, and love all of the ships that we
> have been on--Gem, Spirit and the Dawn.

Don't know why anyone would go on one line exclusively, that would be
boring. I was on the Dawn. Not much to love about the Dawn. It is
passable, but nothing to love. The food was the worst I ever had on a
cruise line.

--
Charles

"Surfer E2468" <pocomount@> wrote in message
news:20527-48E146E1-984@storefull-3353.bay....
> We are going on NCL in nov. we do not really prefer NCL,but when the
> price is really low for a 14 day cruise,we take it,at least we will be
> at sea for 7 days.love those sea days.

Which ship, Annie?

--Jean

For us, NCL fits the bill VERY nicely indeed.
(1) It sails year-round out of our home port of NYC, so there are no
additional travel arrangements that we have to worry about in terms of
getting back and forth to some other home port city.
(2) We absolutely adore free-style cruising, especially with all of
the fabulous extra restaurants, eating when and where we like each
evening, and not having to dress up for dinner unless we want to. We
have never had a "bad" meal on NCL, although some of the meals are
occasionally better than others.
(3) Freestyle cruising also removes a lot of the pressure to "join in"
various ship board activities that hold no appeal for us. We enjoy a
totally relaxing experience and do not feel that we are being slighted
just because the hairy chest contest and others of such ilk are not
our cup of tea!
(4) We are delighted to see the many friends that we have made among
the officers, staff and crew on board each ship on various vessels,
and they are very happy to see us too. It is a friendly arrangment
and one that we treasure!
That is why we switched to NCL ships, and have no particular wish to
change our pattern for the time being. We have sailed with Celebrity,
HAL, Premier and a variety of the older, now defunct, cruise lines in
the past, and have now found a line that we prefer and genuinely
like--as "boring" as it may seem to others. We work very hard for our
cruise money, and see no reason to spend it trying things that we are
not sure about. Eventually, it would be fun to try Princess or RCI,
but that is something to think about for the future when our cruise
dollars are (perhaps) not so dear!

Peg


On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:39:31 -0400, Charles
<fort@his.com.remove.invalid> wrote:

>In article <p7c0e49e8uivsv09u8chk3rjmtviej0dmv@>, Peg
>Caldwell-Ott <caldwellott@pipeline.com> wrote:
>
>> We now cruise with NCL exclusively, and love all of the ships that we
>> have been on--Gem, Spirit and the Dawn.
>
>Don't know why anyone would go on one line exclusively, that would be
>boring. I was on the Dawn. Not much to love about the Dawn. It is
>passable, but nothing to love. The food was the worst I ever had on a
>cruise line.

In article <28i2e4pu6595hlcp56q27ndifitg5j922g@>, Peg
Caldwell-Ott <caldwellott@pipeline.com> wrote:

> (2) We absolutely adore free-style cruising, especially with all of
> the fabulous extra restaurants, eating when and where we like each
> evening, and not having to dress up for dinner unless we want to. We
> have never had a "bad" meal on NCL, although some of the meals are
> occasionally better than others.

I tried all the extra restaurants but one which I was not able to book,
and they were far from fabulous. The extra restaurants were on par with
the free restaurants on other cruise lines. The buffet food at lunch
was horrible. I did not care for free-style because on the Dawn that
meant booking all the extra restaurants the first day or having to eat
at 5:30 or 9:30 and not in between.

> Eventually, it would be fun to try Princess or RCI,
> but that is something to think about for the future when our cruise
> dollars are (perhaps) not so dear!

Yes, NCL is a budget cruise line so it does fill a niche. I prefer
getting more than NCL offers.

--
Charles

"Surfer E2468" <pocomount@> wrote in message
news:20527-48E1765D-1021@storefull-3353.bay....
> JEAN:
> We are going on the NCL MAJESTY from philadelphia to the cribbean and
> back to charleston south carolina,the 14 day cruise was only $600.00
> including port tx's ,we thought it a good deal even tho we have been to
> all the ports,we will only get off the ship,walk around a bit,and then
> take advantage of an almost deserted ship.(we hope)

That's a good price, Annie..especially for 14 days! Is it over
Thanksgiving?

--Jean

"Jean O'Boyle" <j.oboyle@removefudged.> wrote in message
news:yTbEk.2706$be.2138@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...

Rosalie..the pictures of the food were scrumptious! They do not seem to be
scrimping on their food either.
The ship was quite lovely too, it's too bad NCL is having financial
problems.
Sounds as if you really enjoyed this ship...was this the one to South
America?
Thanks again.
--Jean

Thanks to everyone who answered my post....since it's a family cruise, we
have decided to instead take the Voyager of the Seas on Dec. 14th....

--Jean<---really getting stacked.