Our first NCL Cruise, it was on the Norwegian Escape, Wonderful!!!!

Norwegian Escape Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 46

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
Norwegian Escape

7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 10, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Escape

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 13284

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

We definitely would do the NCL Escape ship again!!!! We thoroughly enjoyed the first huge ship we have been on. Food, staff, and the ambience on the ship were wonderful.

Embarkation

3 out of 5
With this being a large ship, the embarkation took longer than we had experienced in other cruise lines, but NCL is very organized and the lines moved along

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
We went to the cafeteria once for breakfast, lots to choose from bu very busy, We did breakfast for the rest of the cruise at O'Sheehan's and it was fabulous. We did not eat in the main dining room, we did Specialty every night... Lucina Italian - wonderful Cagneys 3 times - fantastic Le Bistro twice - wonderful. Tappanaki - Very good.

Cagney's Steakhouse

5 out of 5

Great food, wonderful service, and the best staff working it.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
We went to the pool, it is small for the number of passengers. Chair hogs prevail, but the pool people were very good about putting stickers on empty saved chairs, and taking their stuff to guest services.

Sun Deck

3 out of 5

To small a pool for the # of passengers, it was great on port days!!!!

Entertainment

1 out of 5
We saw no shows, as did many people we encountered, most are by reservation and not available. The only thing I did not care for on this cruise.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
From cabin steward, to restaurants, everyone was friendly, helpful and we can' say enough about our cabin steward Alex, the staff at Cagneys, and Lilibeth.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Spotless everywhere we went...

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Everything about the cabin was well organized, they are small, ad the balcony's are smaller than we have had on other cruise lines.

Ship tip

There is so much to see, the ship is huge... Plan what you want to do, or not do!!! You can be as busy as you want or do as little...

Ports of call

Falmouth, Jamaica Did not visit port

We had heard it is not that safe once outside the port area, we stayed on ship and had a great pool day.

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
We did the NCL White House Beach Getaway, It was excellent, great bus, chairs, umbrella's lunch if you so chose, drinks, great swimming A perfect getaway.

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas Did not visit port

Stayed on ship pool day

Nassau, Bahamas Did not visit port

Stayed on ship pool day

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
It was very easy. you went off in colours.
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6 Comments

viviennepagano    6 years ago

Glad you had such a good time Next time reservations for some of the entertainment can be made at around 90 days before the cruise on their site

trunkmonk    6 years ago

I have been on her two times

IkeDeb    6 years ago

We agree great review. So glad you had a great cruise. 😋😋

BrooklynGirl99    6 years ago

Good review thank you.., 12 days!

Shay1920    6 years ago

Glad you enjoyed your cruise overall

SusieQ204    6 years ago

Happy to hear this. We are going on the Escape in Sept . We havent been on a ship this big . Wondering how crowded it is .

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