![]() ![]() Stops along the way included a day in Port Canaveral, with excursions to places like Universal Studios, a day at NCL’s private island Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas and a day in Nassau, Bahamas with two days at sea to start and end the week. This particular cruise as stated earlier was departing from New York City, which made it very convenient for myself and many other families that were not looking to hit the road or fly in the sky for their family vacations. I responded, “yes it is not red, but a black duffel bag as I explained to you earlier.” Well finally at around 530pm, they found the missing bag and my wife and I felt a little better now that we knew our son would have food for the rest of the week. “Are you sure this isn’t the bag”, the NCL said to me. Minutes later an NCL worker knocks on our door and tries to hand us a red bag. One NCL worker informed me that bags often times get lost and get deliver anywhere from 24 to 48 hours later. Really? It happens often? Well that really didn’t sit well with us as this was not the way we wanted to kick off a week at sea. We explained that this missing bag is pretty important as our son will have no food until at least 48-hours from now when we park this big boat in Florida. They seemed confused and unable to answer our inquiry. With the cruise leaving in less than 30 minutes and the missing bag extremely important to us as it was filled with a week’s worth of baby food and formula, we decided to ask NCL staff for assistance. The Norwegian Jewel, photo courtesy Andrew Hickey Another hour goes by and still no fourth bag. That’s fine as my wife and I realized they have hundreds of bags to deliver and maybe bag number four is just going to show up in a few minutes. Upon arrival at pier 88 in New York City, I handed over my bags to a porter at around 1:30pm and the gentleman tagged each and told me they would be in my room before we departed at 4pm. Well one hour later we received three out of the four bags. My personal experience taking a Norwegian cruise was a little rocky, and it had nothing to do with the ship sailing through choppy water either. I decided this would be the ideal getaway for my wife and 10-month-old son to take with me. This was in fact a very different press trip than the ones I am used to taking. Some of the reactions I received when I told family, friends and fellow travel bloggers that I was going away for a week on a Nickelodeon themed cruise aboard the Norwegian Jewel were very surprised. ![]() ![]() The Norwegian Jewel ( Official Site from Norwegian Cruise Lines) ![]()
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