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Item: Norwegian Escape
Rating: 4.2
Author: jandermer

Norwegian Escape Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

jandermer

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 52

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

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7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 23, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Escape

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 11102

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Had a wonderful time while on the ship however the tendering is a joke!! The first one into Honduras took us 2 hours so our time was shortened and the second one into Costa Maya to see the ruins was very rough and many guests were getting seasick and this excursion was shortened also so we had to rush throught he ruins.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

District Brew House

5 out of 5

Awesome had a great time very entertaining

The Private Room at Taste

5 out of 5

Again a very good restaurant

The Manhattan Room

5 out of 5

One of our favorite restaurants

O'Sheehan's Bar and Grill

3 out of 5

Waitresses could be more friendly!!

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Sun Deck

4 out of 5

All of the chairs were either taken or being saved even though signs were posted that saving chairs was not permitted. Plus the pool which was suppose to be adults only had many children in it and hottubs were over run with children playing in them!!!

Tradewinds Shops

3 out of 5

Need more variety of clothing apparel and snacks to be sold

Escape Casino

1 out of 5

Too smokey!!! Smoking should NOT be allowed in here because the stank permeated your clothes

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

It was wonderful!!!

Ship tip

If the excursions require a tender.... don't do it!!!

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Ports of call

Harvest Caye, Belize

4 out of 5

very nice

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Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico Did not visit port

Tendered in to see the ruins

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Disembarkation

4 out of 5

6 Comments

cruzer2019 5 years ago

I have same question I am sailing in January I did not know Costa Maya and Roatan were Tender ports! Was there a docking problem?

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cruiserssandr 5 years ago

Why did it take 2 hours? We do priority tendering but I think that only works leaving the ship not coming back

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Cruiserike0322 5 years ago

Sorry about the tender situation

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DebandMarkC 5 years ago

I didn't know that Costa Maya was a tender port. When I look it up, it says that ships dock at the pier. Maybe it's just the larger ships that have to tender?

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HarryHole 5 years ago

The smaller ships do a better job with the tinders plus they can dock in more ports than the bigger mega ship's. We just got of the NCL Jewel and they had to use tinders in a lot of the French Polynesian islands with out much waiting and they ran constantly about every 10 minutes.😎🍻

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CVCruiser 5 years ago

Ill never take a cruise where there is a need to tinder.... EVERY cruiseline sucks with tinders. Its not their fault really, you can only get people loaded and off the ship so fast with tinders.

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