We went on our first NCL cruise last month on the Jade. We live in Florida so we can just drive to a port. We go on RC to just the Caribbean. We wanted to take a special family trip so decided to fly to Athens, Greece and go on the Jade because of the great airfare deal. Luckily we were in Israel before this terrible fighting began. I have to say to thought the staff was amazing and the food was normal cruise food. I loved this small ship since we normally do mega ships in Florida. We had no complaints about anything. Sorry people have to complain about small things. We had a great family trip!