Archive for January, 2009

Freestyle Dining!

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Today we will again be focusing on the promises made at NCL.com regarding Freestyle Crusing, this time looking at one of the more important aspects of a cruise: Eating.

This Pig Had No Idea What it Was in For

This Pig Had No Idea What it Was in For

The food on the ship was by far the weakest of any of the cruises that anyone in our party had been on before.  While some items were quite yummy (avacados, pretzel rolls, hot dog sausage, pig’s ears), for the most part, the food sucked.  Let’s see what was promised to us on the Norwegian Website…

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Freestyle Cruising Is Always Awesome (except for when its not)

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

For my first post regarding the cruise that I just returned home from, I would like to focus on Freestyle Cruising. “What”, you may be asking yourself right now, “is Freestyle Cruising?”. Let me enlighten, courtesy of Norwegian Cruise Line’s website, www.ncl.com:

With Norwegian Cruise Line, Freestyle Cruising® is all about flexibility and freedom. Freedom from stress. Freedom from schedules. Freedom to create your own vacation.

Sounds great right?  The ship that we went on, the NCL Spirit, had Freestyle Cruising.  I thought it would be interesting to delve a little bit deeper into what exactly Freestyle Cruising is vs. what NCL claims it is.

Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line

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2009!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I have returned from the aforementioned cruise and will be writing about it in a series of posts in the coming days, so stay tuned. If anyone would like to volunteer their services for a massive laundry undertaking, I am currently in the need for help!