Beautiful Ship that is very well maintained

Norwegian Escape Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 29

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
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Norwegian Escape

7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 13, 2017

Ship: Norwegian Escape

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 11786

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Cruise was really nice, and ship is beautiful and very well maintained.  Great selection of restaurants and bars and lounges.  If  you go, you must eat one day at the FOOD REPUBLIC (Amazing food , all priced ala carte but so worth it) The only low part of our cruise was the wait staff in TASTE and SAVOR were both really slow, and we were always having to re ask for things we had ordered, and water glasses were almost always empty. Also we recommend carrying in a drink with you, cause if you order from person inside, you will get your cocktail half way thru your meal, so slow.  And only other downside was the rude and very inattentive staff in the Garden Café, most would not answer any questions you had regarding what a food is, etc, just look at you and turn away.  And the ones working the floor area refilling plates and such would bump into you or just come barreling down the food aisle so you had  to get out of there way.  Always seems to be mass confusion in Café Area, like no one was on the same page as to what to do, when to do it, etc.   The food on the other had was really pretty good for buffet style cooking, good variety and food was always hot and fresh. Bars were great, and all the bartenders were heavy pourers so drinks were always good.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
All the rooms onboard have the little sensor trays that require you to slide your room key into inside the room, by doing so it turned on electricity to the room, for lights, phone chargers, etc. But this meant that you couldn't leave the room and have your phone charging, or camera charging as the power would go off to outlets when you took room key out, but to get around this all you need to do is either slide in a different card in the slot, I actually used a piece of thin cardboard and it worked just fine, as long as something is in the slot everything works in the room.

Ship tip

Pick up your luggage tags for getting off as soon as they put them out down by guest services, unlike other cruise where you are assigned a color/time to get off, NCL just puts the tags down on a shelf near guest services half way thru the cruise and you can pick up whatever color you want

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Coxen Hole, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

1 out of 5

Harvest Caye, Belize

5 out of 5
Its a great private island, and even though the pool is 15,000 sq feet it fills up fast, so get off ship 1st thing when allowed and grab a spot. we were the only ship in port at the time and still packed.

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

5 out of 5
If you choose to do one of the Ruins Tours be sure to bring sun screen and PLENTY OF bug spray, Mosquitos are horrible there if they have had rain recently.
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