Originally Posted by carolinajacket View Post
Thanks Dan. This is really interesting and valuable information. I have taken the Norwegian cruise a couple of times (last New Year's Eve) and will probably take another one this year. We happen to like Norwegian. I will definitely work in some of your suggestions, even if we end up taking the December Seven Star cruise out of New Orleans. My main problem with cruises is that I have some rather serious health problems which make boarding and disembarking rather difficult. Any suggestions here? Oh yes, every chance I get I plead for them to combine the Norwegian and Harrah's points systems. That only makes sense to me, but thus far it has fallen on deaf ears.
Ah yes, I forgot to mention the 2014 Signature Event cruises, which are a bit of a different story. I'll get to that shortly.

Regarding your health issues, I'm pretty sure if you approached the NCL staff about your disabilities, they would be happy to help. There are actually a number of disabled passengers on cruises, as well as extremely old people who can barely walk. If you have medical documentation of your disability (I'm not sure if it's obvious from seeing you), then you should bring that along in case they give you static.

To NCL's credit, I found the staff to be nice and helpful during embarkation and disembarkation, although the embarkation process was a bit long and confusing for my taste.