10+ Norwegian Cruise Embarkation Day Tips & Must-Dos

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You can book your restaurant reservations 120 days out. Same for the shows. I did my pre-boarding 21 days out. It's easy and boarding is easy. 9 NCL cruises so far.

I haven't experienced a NCL cruise yet that didn't include a "holding time" before embarking. In May we sailed from Miami and we were held in the terminal until 1 p.m. There was about 3000 people waiting with us. In July we sailed from Vancouver and we were held until 11. We made reservations for specialty dinner before our cruise. The people at the box office desk were so helpful when we booked our show times! They knew what days were sea days and port days so they guided my family to making the best choice. I love sailing with NCL! Their freestyle cruising mantra is perfect for me!

Getting ready for our first Norwegian cruise. Thank you for all your tips!

Leaving in 5 hours headed over to Seattle to board Norwegian Encore on Sunday- Alaska bound. It's our very first cruise ever and oh man the prep work can be daunting but we are so excited, fingers crossed for smooth times!

Prepping for my first NCL cruise. Another helpful video-thank you!

Thank you for always providing good and useful content. Please keep up the information

You put so much great info on your videos! Thank you so much!

We were on the Norwegian Joy in July and August and we love it. We had so much fun on both of our sailing.

Having cruised on Norwegian, over a dozen times, my embarcation day tradition used to be going directly to O’Sheehan’s. Back in 2016-18 it was easy nobody was there. But after the pandemic it has been incredibly crowded on embarcation day (people have caught on). So now, it’s better to go to one of the main dining rooms.(as you have suggested)

Good video! I appreciate how quickly you move through the info-concise and effficient! Thanks!!!

We are leaving in 3 days on the Norwegian Joy. Your videos have been so helpful. Thank you for the great content!

Thank you, Alana, for your channel. We've cruised quite a bit. But I've always learned something from your channel. So it just keep bringing updates.

Our tradition is grabbing a burger and fries. Just started adding rum punch as well 🥰.

So excited to see you on the Joy! I’m going on my first cruise to Bermuda on the joy in October. Super excited

We also just cruised on the Norwegian joy ship and absolutely loved everything about it.

Thank you for all your videos and especially this one! I am going to be on the Joy in a few short days doing the same itinerary. I can’t wait! I loved the Encore and the Joy is a sister ship. I have never been to any of these ports either so it will be great!

We cruise with NCL and this will be our 4th 14-day cruise with them. We are flying to Buenos Aires and doing the Antarctica cruise this time. This video is helpful as our last cruise was out of Australia and ended right when COVID started. Thank you for the new updates. Also, we love your site and I subscribe to it. So helpful. This will be our 9th cruise but still learn things. Thank you and keep up the good work.

You have incredible tips, tysm

I’ve watched many of you videos this week as I get ready to leave on an NCL cruise later this week. Your videos are EXCELLENT! You provide useful information in a quick, concise manner. I’ve watched many cruise videos, and yours, by far, are the best. Keep ‘em coming!