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  1. I sailed on the Pearl in the Before Times, so this may have changed. But, there was one coffee maker in the buffet that had fresh ground beans. You may want to walk all the way around the buffet at all the beverage stations and see if that machine snuck thru everything. Worth a shot. BTW- it looks just like the other liquid coffee machines, so look on top for the canister of beans.
  2. To the poster who said the Waterfront would be especially good for inside cabin people- THANK YOU! I just got off the 8/6 sailing (inside cabin) and did a sleep, eat, thermal spa, waterfront rotation the full time. I remembered you saying that and followed that instruction. Brilliant! Gonna add a couple of other things- unlike the Haven lady with the live post from my same cruise, I go as inexpensive as possible (the officers did not send dessert snack plates to the inside cabins LOL). I buy the cheapest sailaway cabin on board and a weeklong thermal spa pass, purchasing drinks as needed. This was my third NCL cruise and it wasn't my favorite ship. I think after doing the Pearl, Epic, and Escape (as well as some other cruise lines), that I really prefer the intimacy of a smaller ship, so favorite ship right now goes to the Pearl. Plus, the kids were...a lot of kids. The ship was 100% sold out. If a ship doesn't have a water slide, it generally doesn't have kids- just sayin'. Agree the pool deck was brutally loud and crowded, but the only time I went was to walk from the buffet to the thermal spa at the other end and just laughed internally. All these people shoved 12 to a hot tub or (literally)200 people jammed into a pool and 500 feet away is a calm oasis. hahahahaha. In the Before Times, there was more abundance displayed on the Epic than the Pearl and I expected that on the Escape- such as the mid-afternoon grill out at the pool deck, the full scale Broadway shows, the Latitudes bottle of wine in the stateroom. But that's all gone in the After Times, so I don't know that a ship's size defines the amenities anymore. I loved Choir of Man and the Syd Norman shows at the Pourhouse, but the rest of the entertainment didn't hit my notes. The performers hinted that they were on two week rotations in and out so whoever goes two weeks from now will have different comics and piano players, etc so my opinion doesn't really hold water. Due to some dietary restrictions, I mostly ate in the buffet. I was surprised that the menus were fairly common on the same night in the dining rooms and the buffet- usually the buffet is a day behind with repurposed leftovers, but not here. The food was excellent! The lighting was all the way up and people eating dinner in their pool clothes and kids running with a soft serve in their hand. If you are on the Escape and want a quieter buffet, go all the way to the back across the aft and it's as quiet as it's going to get. Shame on me for not researching the ports, so I can't *****- our itinerary was Honduras, Belize, Costa Maya, and Cozumel. I didn't like that at the first three, we were essentially on an island and there wasn't really a local experience to check out independently. You docked and either did the ship's shore excursions, haggled with a guy at the official shore excursion sale point, or walked in the predetermined, prescribed shopping path around similar stores and bars at each port. But that's on me, not NCL, and most of those ports had the other ships docked as well, so any cruise line would have had the same experience.
  3. The original poster and Steelers lady are correct- MSC will NOT sell a cabin to a solo traveler for any fee unless it is one of their solo specified cabins. By the way, this is different than they were in 2010 when I did buy a European balcony cruise advertised at $499 a person for $998 for a solo. To those who are not understanding, the solo cruisers here don't really care if the room is labeled a Studio or a Solo cabin and only sold for one. We are speaking about an inside cabin being advertised as $359pp, clicking in on it, changing the number in the room to 1 instead of 2. Most cruise lines, that room will update and adjust to show the fare at $718 for a solo. MSC flat out won't let a solo book. Not on the phone either. The only solo they want to sell to is one buying their Murphy bed solo room for one. It makes no sense. AS a solo traveler, I am well versed in buying the whole room. Hampton Inn doesn't care how many people are in the room- the room costs $_____. It should be the same on a cruise ship (and usually is). Sometimes close to sailing, they will discount empty cabins for a solo, but MSC will simply not sell you the cabin at any price. Very, very odd.
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