Everything Breakaway!(LIVE on 4/28)

[karen119]

I can't keep up with this thread -- there is so much great information. How exciting to see her sail past the Statue of Liberty. She's finally home!

[grobma]

Woke up to the sound of hovering helicopters. I live about a mile upriver from the cruise terminal - must be local news covering her this morning.

[Highboy90]

 

 

 

[j603]

Welcome Breakaway! Is it Sunday yet?????????

[Maryfrei]

Elaine...I really like to have things laid out visually so I put together this chart when I was planning my shows. I hope it helps.

 

Many thanks!!:)

[youngestof9]

it's so funny to see Lady Liberty poking her head over the top - now she looks like the commercial!

 

Welcome home Breakaway - thanks everyone for sharing those pics :)

[Bellaloomp]

Wow. She looks stunning. We cheered her in all the way. Thanks all for such a great thread.

 

 

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[smileysmiley]

Thank you everybody for the pictures, so exciting. If I still lived in Staten Island I probably would have been by Verrazano bridge watching it live.:)

[kewbrick]

Went down to the pier this morning to see her. She is big and beautiful... if I knew how to post a pic (mine are 2mb) I would....

[ibcnusoon]

Aww, brought tears to my eyes when I saw a picture of her passing the Statue of Liberty.

 

Welcome Home, Breakaway!!

[MR NW GUY]

Are you on the roll call?

I was surprised that there is not a table for dinning on the deck.

[gambee]

Cubechick wrote this:

 

There are two carts on the ship. One on the pool deck the other stationed on the waterfront. The dogs are free and you can get them with two kinds of mustard, sauerkraut, onions and relish.

 

 

I know a few of you were asking about this.

[ibcnusoon]

In a one-on-one interview this weekend aboard the Breakaway's first sailing with passengers, Sheehan tells USA TODAY the new ships are the result of a team effort that was rare at the company before he arrived. Ship design under previous management "was kind of like a little secret thing" done by the CEO without much consultation, and that led to problems, he says.

 

Sheehan already was CEO in 2010 when the line took delivery of the 4,100-passenger Norwegian Epic, a ship that was designed before his arrival that was widely criticized for obvious design mistakes such as poor lighting above cabin bathroom mirrors and stylish but non-functional sink faucets.

 

Sheehan says it took 15 months to fix the problems with Epic, which he now calls "a great ship."

 

Breakaway, by contrast, was done right the first time, thanks to input from around the company, he says.

 

"We're a team of 20,000 hard-working people, and when we all work together we're going to do much better things that if we work as individuals," he says.

 

Sheehan says the Norwegian Breakaway also is a symbol of the line's shift from competing on price with low-cost provider Carnival to being a brand designed to go head-to-head with Celebrity Cruises, Holland America and other lines that industry executives often refer to as "premium."

 

When he first arrived, Sheehan says he told executives that "when we get through this, our brand will be the top brand in the premium category, and I know a lot of people thought I was crazy. Maybe some of them still do, but when you look at this brand Norwegian Cruise Line (today) and you compare it to Holland America or Princess or Celebrity, it really stands up well."

 

Sheehan says he set a goal of turning Norwegian into the "hot brand" of the cruise industry, and it's a goal he says the company has achieved.

 

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20130428/NEWS01/130428003/CEO-New-ship-symbol-Norwegian-s-transformation

[Bucket List 2012]

[kewbrick]

Docked in NYC

[Bucket List 2012]

 

 

 

don't forget to watch the Christening tomorrow

 

http://www.breakaway.ncl.com/latest/christening

[gambee]

Tweet

 

"he's had to drop fwd two lifeboats to fit into port! "

 

 

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

Tweet

 

"he's had to drop fwd two lifeboats to fit into port! "

 

 

 

Interesting!

 

Reminds me of being on the first sailing out of Pt. Canaveral on the Carnival Dream (9-night). When we reached San Juan it was discovered that if we pulled up to the pier it could puncture one of the lifeboats. We skipped the port that day, and the pier has been modified!

 

Tom

[dcollette]

Tweet

 

"he's had to drop fwd two lifeboats to fit into port! "

 

 

 

I thought this was why they made those new gangways for NY, specifically for the ships that have the overhanging lifeboats? Are they not installed yet?

[angelfish2012]

gambee

good morning

is there a webcam to see her now ported

thank you

[gambee]

By the way folks, I will be boarding Breakaway in 12 days. Along with my ULTIMATE review (I will start it after the cruise on May 26), I also plan on doing some LIVE tweets and maybe some facebook posts as well.

 

Feel free to join me @

 

https://twitter.com/CruisingGambee

 

https://www.facebook.com/Cruisinggambee

 

 

The Facebook account also has a bunch of my past cruise pictures :)

[roe2ship]

Breakaway, welcome home to New Yawk!!:D

[gambee]

gambee

good morning

is there a webcam to see her now ported

thank you

 

Good Morning, Not that I am aware off. But there has to be one somewhere. Ill go look around.

 

Maybe someone else knows :confused:

[Sunflwr27]

gambee

good morning

is there a webcam to see her now ported

thank you

 

It's not the greatest but you can see her here:

 

http://kroooz-cams.com/portcams/us/new_york.php

[ibcnusoon]

Good Morning, Not that I am aware off. But there has to be one somewhere. Ill go look around.

 

Maybe someone else knows :confused:

 

I think I found one!! :D

 

http://kroooz-cams.com/portcams/us/new_york.php