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Re: Back from the Pride of Hawaii Posted on: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:25:03 +0000 (UTC)

On May 1, 3:02 pm, Jack Hamilton wrote:
> [oops _ don;t know what I did to sent the previous partly completed
> post.]

Thanks for posting the rest.

> Accupuncture: On the PoH, accupuncture is offered through the spa,
> but is a separate department on the Infinity. There were two
> accupuncturists in the Infinity, one on the PoH. I didn't try
> accupuncture on the PoH - it was twice as expensive as on the
> Infinity.

I've never heard of accupuncture being offered on a cruise.
Interesting trend.

> Service in all restaurants was in the
> "Hi-I'm-Sam-and-I'll-be-your-waiter-tonight" style, not the more
> formal style on the Infinity. I don't have a problem with that, but
> some people do. If treating the staff as human isn't your thing, you
> might not like any of the NCLA ships.

I don't need to be on a first-name basis with my waiter in order to
treat him/her "as human". I'm happy to learn the name of my servers
that will be waiting on me for the week, but for a single meal...just
not my thing.

> Entertainment: I thought the shows were a bit too much by rote, the
> leads insufficiently idiosyncratic. They didn't make any mistakes,
> but they struck me as flat. Other people liked them, though.
>
> One thing they did right, though - the Broadway production used music
> from relatively recent shows like Hairspray, not decades-old shows
> like Les Miserables.

Did they have any Hawaiian-themed entertainment on board?

Thanks for the review.

Lee