On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:47:51 -0400, Thumper
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:26:20 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:

On 9/23/2011 6:58 PM, Bill wrote:
On 9/23/2011 6:35 PM, Old Sarge wrote:
Didn't NCL remove one of their two ships in Hawaii?
Since I believe they are American flagged, they are bound by US Labor
laws and must pay minimum wages and abide by the law in total. I thought
I saw where they removed one ship due to it being too expensive to
operate there. A friend of mine got a Purser job on one of those ships.

They had 3 ships. They removed 2 a few years ago. Too much capacity was
leading to very low prices (which I took advantage of).

People complained about the service. I didn't find it all that bad, at
least not in the dining and housekeeping areas. Food was terrible.

Bill,

I know at least a dozen people who have sailed on that NCL ship and that
same itinerary at different times. You are the first one who *didn't*
find it terrible.

You must be easy to please. :-)

Maybe I am easy to please but I was satisfied with our cruise on NCL
Hawaii, and I quite liked my other NCL cruises. On the Pride of
America, I found the service generally good except that they were
woefully understaffed in housekeeping. The itin. which was the
reason I picked it, was good and the excursions were good. I don't
ever eat in the extra price restaurants, so it doesn't matter to me
what time you have to call in the morning. Most of the other things
people complain about are things that don't matter to me.

The travel web sites are full of reviews by people who not only didn't
find it terrible, but really liked it.
Thumper