MartiK

We have Penthouse 9003 booked for our Thanksgiving Cruise, 2014. I'm aware of the forward balcony may not be unusable while we are at sea (we only have 2 sea days) and none of the aft cabins were available when I booked. We also had issued on another aft stateroom with engine smells and soot so we are fine with the forward stateroom. I've read a lot of posts but nothing recent (2013/2014).

So I have a couple of questions on this suite and Penthouse suites in general:

Does anyone have pictures or a general layout of 9003?

What are the perks of a Penthouse Suite (besides the Butler and concierge)?

Do we still pay the uplift charge at the specialty restaurants?

What other perks do we get with this suite?

We have not taken a cruise on NCL in many years but we booked for a Thanksgiving trip, 2014 on the Sun. We have taken cruises with my kids including a Disney Cruise in November 2011 and Regent in August 2006. During the Disney Cruise, my youngest son was too young for the "tween" group but too mature for the kids club. He was also close to the cut off age (his birthday is in December). Disney allowed him in the Tween group because he was more mature and often hangs out and socializes with his older brother's friends (his older brother is 3 grades ahead of him). The exact same thing happened on the Regent cruise in 2006. When I told the gal that ran the program at the end of the cruise that my son was only 4 3/4 at the time of the cruise (he needed to be 5), she said she knew already. But because he was more mature than many of the 6-7 year olds, she allowed him to stay. So at least with my 2 experiences, the folks that run the clubs can use some discretion on whether or not to let a child stay or not.