Norwegian Sky

Our 2nd Cruise of 2009 was on Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) on board the Sky for a quick 3 night cruise to the Bahamas with our friends. We had not cruised on NCL before and were a little leery to try it based on the freestyle concept. We aren't big fans of that but it was a good deal so we tried it out. It wasn't a horrible cruise but we just like the traditional cruise dining and not the seat you anytime anywhere concept. We like that we get to know our servers and that they get to know us.
The Sky was originally part of NCL America fleet based in Hawaii and sailed under the name Pride of Aloha. She was built in 1999 and is starting to show her age a little.

We left out of Miami. My friend Louise (Weez) got some good pictures of us leaving port.

Time for some drinks as we leave!

The girls got matching pedicures for the cruise!

All dressed up for dinner one night.

Too much coffee for Trav!

On our 3 night cruise we stopped at Nassau and NCL's private island. We didn't even get off the ship in Nassau. We did venture over to the private island with Weez and went snorkeling. Travis stayed on the ship.

This is pretty much all there is to NCL's private island. It is not nearly as big as Royal Caribbean's two private islands. So crowded here good thing Trav stayed on the ship he would have hated this.

Headed back to the ship.

Our lovely ladies all set for dinner

The highlight of this cruise was the pub crawl we did. Weezy got some good pictures of this with her camera. I wish some other lines would do something similar since they all have so many bars now. This was so much FUN!!!!

Overall we weren't overly impressed with NCL. I wouldn't totally rule it out if the price was good but we just aren't big fans for the freestyle concept. We did have a blast with our friends and hope they had great time to.