A very nice cruise

Item: Norwegian Escape
Rating: 4.7
Author: beckyjp54

Norwegian Escape Cruise Review

beckyjp54

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 27

Overall rating:

4.7 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 30, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Escape

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 9208

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 9 months ago

Review summary

We enjoyed most of the cruise. The food was excellent. The service was excellent. Our room was excellent. The ports were good wasn’t crazy about the layout of the ship layout just kind of felt boxed in. The atrium was very small the pool was very small. But all in all I would recommend this cruise

Embarkation

5 out of 5

This was very smooth and fast

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

All the food in main dining room savor and taste was excellent we also ate at Cagney was excellent and La Cucina was very good. The buffet cafe was terrible. Only thing good there was ice cream

Cagney's Steakhouse

5 out of 5

The food was excellent service was excellent we enjoyed this night very much

The Manhattan Room

5 out of 5

Food was excellent just loud in there and a small main dining room we preferred taste and savor

O'Sheehan's Bar and Grill

3 out of 5

We did not really care for the service or the food we had but they had the best margaritas

Mixx Bar

5 out of 5

Our favorite bar the chocolate martinis were awesome would highly recommend them

Room Service

5 out of 5

We had room service every morning at 6:30 and it was excellent service right on time. Food was hot. Coffee was great the best $10 we spent. Nothing better than having coffee and a sweet roll on the balcony to start the day.

Taste

5 out of 5

This was one of our favorite places to eat much quieter than the dining room service was much quicker. Just very nice

Skyline Bar

5 out of 5

Nice

La Cucina

5 out of 5

Food was very good service was excellent

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Did not care for the choir of Man we enjoyed the illusionist, but I think they definitely could do with some more entertainment

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Just enjoy it so much to see and do

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Ports of call

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

4 out of 5

We had a terrible tour guide was an hour and a half late getting started on our tour. I was supposed to have a private one and was bunched up with some other people and didn’t get to do half of the things that we were paid for that we were going to get to do, we did go to Dunn Falls and river tubing which was really fun we did not get to do our sightseeing our lunch stop and our shopping stop. These were things that we didn’t have time to do because the tour was cut short.

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Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

We did a private jeep tour a bit of a bad start the tour company had us coming in on the wrong port so when we got there, we had nobody to greet us had to call and was told that our meeting spot was 2 miles down the road at another port we had to catch a taxi so I think they could’ve done a better job of knowing where our ship was coming in that is there job and had our tour there to meet us. So we lost a good hour of tour but was nice what we had

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George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Very easy and smooth we went down for breakfast, and our color was called at 9 o’clock just as we were finishing breakfast we walked right off the ship after picking our luggage up I thought it was very smooth and very fast. I would highly recommend going for breakfast and letting that first rush get on out of there, and then you don’t have to wait

Traveler Photos

10 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe 5 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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crusin4gramma 9 months ago

Wow, you are the first person I've heard that did not love the Choir of Man!! I guess to each there own. Have seen them twice, will see them again. Best show at sea as far as I'm concerned!

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Gwbigdog 9 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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Sogmoore 9 months ago

Thanks for sharing and nice pictures

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Kiwi247 9 months ago

Thank you for a helpful review.

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javawoody 9 months ago

Were the tours thru NCL ?

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cruising2004 9 months ago

Glad you had an enjoyable cruise! Thank you for your detailed review.

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RogueWaveRider 9 months ago

Which company did you go through when you booked your private tours in Ocho Rios and Cozumel? Sounds like future passengers might want to use different options in the future

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Dumfy75 9 months ago

Good review! Glad you enjoyed your cruise, we loved the Escape.

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Niavlys 9 months ago

Thank you for your detailed review

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