NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE DISCONTINUES 7-DAY, ROUND-TRIP MAUI ITINERARY

Miami - February 15, 2002 - Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) today announced it will discontinue all seven-day Maui sailings beginning August 16, 2002. The line will continue to offer seven-day sailings from Honolulu.

"Operating an embarkation and disembarkation in Lahaina, which is a tendering port, has proven more challenging than anticipated with the constraints of the small harbor itself and also the lack of suitable shore-based tenders to facilitate an efficient service," said Colin Veitch, president and chief executive officer of Norwegian Cruise Line. "The Maui-embarkation option has proved popular and we are well booked through August. We are currently embarking passengers quite effectively in our alternative Maui port of Kahului - which is a berthing port -- but as we would like in the long term to retain the flexibility of calling in either Lahaina or Kahului, we have made the decision not to sell any more cruises embarking in Maui after August 16. We will of course continue to offer embarkation in Honolulu every Sunday and we are now offering passengers booked on the discontinued Maui program an attractive option to sail from Honolulu instead."

NCL is offering guests currently booked and deposited on any of the cancelled Maui embarkation sailings a four-category upgrade (Inside-Inside or Outside-Outside) or up to a two-category upgrade for those booked in an Oceanview stateroom with balcony. In addition, NCL will offer rate protection on any other seven-day roundtrip Honolulu sailing aboard Norwegian Star (Christmas and New Year's voyages excluded). Non-deposited bookings will be automatically cancelled unless the travel agent responsible for the booking notifies NCL.

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line is an international cruise company and industry innovator that currently operates a fleet of nine ships sailing to more than 140 ports around the world.

For further information on NCL, contact a travel agent or NCL in the U.S. and Canada at (800) 327-7030; in Miami-Dade County, Florida, (305) 436-0866.

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