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The Escape Casino, The Final Chapter of The Beginning.

 

Jerome and I, after having easily won on the ATM machine, decided to play, side by side, on The Wizard of Oz machines. They are graphically exciting, bonus rich and along with The Flintstones machines on the Left and Willy Wonka's on the Right, you can pretty much guarantee that the median age for these machines will be mid 50's. Hey, all they need is to add The Brady Bunch and The Munsters and my childhood will be complete! Hi graphics, low paying, but fun slot machines.

 

So Jerome and I sit down, and magically Jazz, our wonderful Cocktail Server appears. I order a Coffee with Bailey's with a Grey Goose Shot on the side. Hey, I am Livin' La Vida Loca...............okay?

 

I put my Casino Card into the machine and I get a, "Welcome JW" "You have Zero Points" Like Duh, wait until later in the week.................tonight is the first night. Nice to rub it in fuzz ball, but just you wait.

 

Now, it goes without saying that I saw a YouTube Video of The Norwegian Escape Casino that highlighted the Wizard of Oz machines, and I guess I had too many martini's that night, because I then had a dream that Jerome and I were playing these machines next to each other and he got a Bonus and, Bazinga! (Sorry borrowed that from my favorite show BBT) we were rich!

 

Well, not so fast. Bonus yes, just like the dream. Rich? Well no. It's a penny machine, in reality, on this machine a payout of "Rich" is only about a couple of thousand if we were that lucky. And at that very moment, Jazz had returned with my Coffee with Bailey's with my shot of Grey Goose, and as he proceeded to give it to me, I was paying attention to the Bonus Jerome got on his machine and wham, without me knowing, I was spilling coffee all over me....................on my gorgeous, Tommy Bahama white shirt no less..............in my excitement, the drink dribbled all over me while watching Jerome's bonus.

 

"Oh Jerome!" I exclaimed "Oh, I had a dream about you winning on the Wizard of Oz machine, and you getting a bonus and we were rich!" "Rich, Rich, Rich" "Yippee!" Mind you, coffee all the while is drip, drip, dripping all over my Tommy Bahama shirt embroidered with Martini glasses. Drip, drip, drip. The bonus goes on and on and on. I am Tinkling in my pants. Coffee dripping everywhere.

 

The bonus was a lot of noise and excitement, the payout was $6.40. Yay, we are rich, rich, rich I tell you, RICH! Six dollars for all that noise? You have got to be kidding.

 

Jerome looks over at me and I have the Bailey's and Coffee in one hand and I am pressing the (Max Bet) buttons of the machine I am playing with the other and he is just shaking his head. He says "Oh Lordie". I turn to him briefly, not wanting to take my eyes off my Wizard of Oz machine lest I win something, and he says "Uh, JW, What the heck is wrong with you?" I shoot him the "eyes", you know, "Those Eyes". "Wrong with me?" "What is wrong with me?" My fingers are now rapidly pressing the buttons on the machine as if I am in a slot tournament not caring about the eventual outcome, "Wrong?" I am getting a bit peeved. "Now what's the matter?" "Now what did I do?" (And I know I did something, you don't spend decades with someone and not know I did something wrong, as usual, Trouble is in Trouble).

 

"JW, look what you did to your brand new Tommy Bahama shirt!" Jerome had stopped playing his machine and he was sympathetically looking at me knowing that at any moment the sounds of devastation would erupt out of me and everyone in the casino would think I was going berserk. He had fully turned towards me, as if he were a Psychiatrist waiting to console and comfort the crazy patient before the patient goes berserk. Berserk!

 

Berserk is, well, just imagine, (go ask your gay friends), what would happen if I discovered I had spilled coffee all over a brand new, very expensive, Tommy Bahama shirt with Martini Glasses embroidered all over it and I was sitting there not knowing what I had done? In a very public place where hundreds of folks would see me and what a boob I was?...........Oh sure. I could maybe get away with "Oh it was the ship rocking" NOT! Not on The Escape! The dang ship never moved once. (We were just transported from port to port by alien spaceships, now that could be the Tequila talking!)

 

You wanna know how awesome Jerome was? He went back to the room with my shirt, (I took it off at the machine, you didn't think that I was going to leave the Casino did you? That would be nuts) and I sat there, playing out my money on The Wiz machine, with a coffee stained-thru undershirt on, bink, bink, bink, constantly pushing the max-bet button shouting "Come On Wicked Witch!" "I am NOT in Kansas Anymore!" "And Toto too!" Yes, I know that I am a mess, I know what you are thinking.

 

Jerome returned with a clean shirt for me (Thank Gawd I always pack "JW's been a boob" emergency clothes) and he let me know that he was going to go and check out The Skyline Bar, located by the Casino, where they actually had an incredible live cover band, and would he hang out there for a while. I said my tootles and began my "Quest" for the hunt of the machine that pays off on the first night. Never really ever finding it on any other cruise, but as elusive as it is, there is always that one machine that creates the "folk lore" for the entire rest of the sailing, a big jackpot on the first night, to capture the attention of all the folks just dying for it to happen to them..........the elusive jackpot was just waiting to be won.

 

And I just happened to sit down at that one machine this night.

Hey JW!!! Love your review! You have me feeling like I'm right there with you! Question for you.... You got the jackpot.... Could you tell me what the payout was? Not amount but percentage? I'm also curious was this a dollar machine? I'm trying to figure out the odds playing on the ship. Thanks.

Looking forward to your next review!

https://www.icruise.com/cabins/ncl-cruises-norwegian-escape-cabin-14700.html

Thank you! I saw that but its not actually the cabin since the window on the700s slant and are round I believe.

Great cabin, the forward facing xx700 cabins are in my opinion the best oceanview staterooms on Escape.

 

See http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2016503&page=291 from my post #5808 and up for some more info and pics.

Thanks Freestyle! I saw that but wasn't sure all the O2 cabins were the same.

I'm booked in Cabin 14700 on the escape. I cannot find any information on this cabin and have asked in several boards. When I call NCL they tell me they don't have the layout or square footage for that room. I can't find any pictures. I have even done a search to try to set up a booking on cruises until the end of March 2018 to try to see if I could book it. I never pops up. Either it's a very popular cabin and I'm in for a happy surprise or the cabin just doesn't exist :)

If anyone has any information, pictures, or comments please let me know...

I did the boston to bemuda cruise on norwegian many years back. i think around 20 years ago. They did the midnight buffet. It was mostly light snacks and desserts fruits etc. It was a great treat after the early dinner (which I believe was at 5).

One other question. We are cruising to celebrate my son and a few of his friends high school graduation. Unfortunately my son will be the only one not 18 yet. He is a late summer bday. Will this create a problem? I know most of the adult areas are 18 plus. I'm afraid he will be left out of the group a lot. Any info appreciated.

Hi all! I was wondering does anyone have the configurations for an O2 room? Or pictures? I'm booked in 14700 and can't seem to find anything on it. Just wondering if I am making the right choice.