I think your comment about the speed of luggage at NCL is pants. I usually have to collect luggage several times a month and I think the longest wait I have had this last 12 months is about 10 minutes.

Totally agree about the ridiculous set up for drop offs and the total lack of anywhere to buy food of a healthy nature seems to typify the Geordie diets.

Check in at 06.00 is usaully requiring sunglasses from the new shell suit and trainers brigade, who then head straight to the bar to become even more annoying in one day than they can be for the rest of the year. The lounges are now open to anyone for a fee of £12 and these lager louts can easily drink more than that in 30 minutes.