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NCL
Pride of America
Hawaii

Linda Marshall
Sailing Date: January 7th, 2006

This was a new ship however, inadequately staffed. The room stewards did a fine job. The free styling restaurants had up to a one and a half hour wait to even get seated. They took an additional one and a half hours to serve you your meal. We rarely made it to the shows as a dinner would take three hours and was not worth the wait. The main daily entrees we were limited to three options. One meat, one pasta and one vegetarian. They had there optional standby menu however, they were not very tasty. Sizzler does a better job. It appears they are trying to force you to go to the restaurants that have a fee attached. They were hard to get into and defeated the free styling reason we went with NCL as you had to have reservations. The main dining room food was the worst I have ever had on a cruise. This is the second time I have been disappointed with NCL's food. The other trip was to Alaska. The check in was smooth! The ports were great. The itinerary showed a conflict of times in Kauai. One schedule showed being in port two days. The actual schedule left the port at 6:00 AM the second day.

Pride of America is the wrong name for this boat.