<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Two Business Insider reporters compare Norwegian Breakaway and Norwegian Prima.Norwegian Cruise Line</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>We sailed on an older and newer ship on <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/norwegian-cruise-line-prima-old-new-ships-compared-photos-review-2024-2">Norwegian Cruise Line</a>: 11-year-old Breakaway and two-year-old Prima.</li><li>Breakaway was larger but had markedly less exciting family-friendly amenities.</li></ul><p>A lot can happen in nine years — more than two presidential terms and your child's high school and college graduation, for example.</p><p>In the case of Norwegian Cruise Line, nine years means the difference between a bare-boned ship and one with show-stopping amenities.</p><p>Two Business Insider reporters sailed on Norwegian's 11-year-old Norwegian Breakaway and two-year-old <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-review-new-11-billion-norwegian-prima-cruise-ship-2022-10">Norwegian Prima</a>. (Reporter Taylor Rains spent seven nights on Breakaway in mid-September, while Brittany Chang joined Prima's complimentary four-night inaugural press sailing in late 2022.)</p><p>The older (though still young by industry standards) and larger Breakaway has a capacity of about 3,900 guests — 800 more than Prima. And yet, Prima was notably more amenity-heavy and extravagant, showcasing Norwegian's — and the general mass-market cruise industry's — evolving preference for <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/norwegians-new-cruise-ship-luna-could-take-on-royal-caribbean-2024-9">amusement park-like ships</a>.</p>