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This video on YouTube has pictures of the restaurant, menu and some of the food.

Thanks...will miss the Flounder Milanese at lunch, but looks like I will make do nicely!

When we were on the Breakaway last month I believe they had the Flounder Milanese on the every day portion of the Main Dining room menu. I will have to look at my pictures to double check.

“…stating that the executive team stands by ALL of their recent policy changes, and that there's not a thing that NCL can do for clients such as myself.”

NCL executives may think they are doing a good job but it seems their customers do not feel the same way. Could it be that all of these non-customer friendly changes are starting to affect NCL’s bottom line?

From the 2nd Quarter earning calls: (cruiseindustrynews.com)

“Second quarter earnings calls from Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings painted a differing picture of Caribbean capacity concerns.”

…said del Rio. “Our ships our outperforming year-over-year. It’s a recognition that the high expectations just aren’t being met and we believe that is almost exclusively due to the heavy concentration of inventory in the weak period (summer). That is why we announced the Norwegian Getaway is moving out of Miami to the Baltic.”

At Royal Caribbean Cruises, Jason T. Liberty, chief financial officer, said that the Caribbean was performing on his company’s earnings call.

“We are generally seeing solid trends for our entire Caribbean portfolio which ranges from three-night Bahamas sailings to 14-night- Southern Caribbean itineraries.”

Carnival Corporation’s President and CEO Arnold Donald also pointed to a stable region on Carnival’s Q2 call.

“Bookings in the Caribbean and Alaska for the remainder of the year are very strong for our brands, enabling us to raise our revenue yield expectations and affirming our conviction to deliver over 20 percent earnings growth this year,” said Donald on the June 28 call.

Just speculation on my part but could it be that NCL is starting to feel the backlash of customers not being happy with recent changes and choosing to cruise with other lines?

This is a video of Family Suite 12510 on the Dawn from April 2014. You can see the second window from the left fogged up.

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As of right now the Dawn is still scheduled to reposition to New Orleans in Nov 2016 for the winter months.

Here is some info http://www.massport.com/port-of-boston/cruiseport-boston/

Sounds like the Escape could be heading to Boston for 2015?

According to the Bermuda Sun (9/18/13)

"Kevin Sheehan told the Bermuda Sun he was pleased with how the Norwegian Breakaway's inaugural season traveling between New York and the island had gone. And Mr. Sheehan said that recent legislation that allows ships to open their casinos while in Bermuda means there is every possibility that Norwegian's newest ships would continue to come to the island. The Norwegian Escape comes into service in 2015 and its schedule will be announced later in the fall, while the Norwegian Bliss is due to be in service by 2017."

"Mr. Sheehan said 'It's definitely possible that Bermuda will see our next newest ships."

Sheehan - "But I can say Bermuda is a serious market for us. Bermuda and Norwegian go hand in hand and we would like to see that continue for many, many years to come."