NCL ESCAPE - JUST OFF 7/10-7/17 EUROPE ASK AWAY ANY QUESTIONS

[podaz1]

On 7/21/2022 at 3:09 AM, marktwothousand said:

 did you notice if smoking was allowed in the casino thank you 

Yes there was smoking in casino I notices as we walked through, at least while out at sea when casino was opened 

[podaz1]

On 7/21/2022 at 5:13 AM, Ixtoras said:

Thats a bummer that they canceled Corfu.  Re porting to Bar for crew replenishment makes sense. IIRC, NCL used Bar City for staging crew during the restart and was often the last port before a ship came online.  Think things are still a bit wonky with crew contracts all ending around the same t8mes.  Some of the crew on the Encore were talking about an upcoming rotation, and that staff were getting offers to extend a couple months.

 

Three questions:

Malevo was the second show in the main theater.  Did you see it and was it any good?

Dueling pianos - same question.  Have fond memories of the howl at the moon group on the getaway in 2019.

Last - the supper club....  looks like maybe variety acts?  Did you catch any of those?

 

Thanks 

Jeff

 

Jeff, we enjoyed Malevo very much but not everyone seemed as impressed. A little noisy and a bit repetitive after a while but definitely worth checking out! Choir of Man was a favourite amongst our group ranging from 1 to 82  , everybody loved it!

The Supper club had some good musical acts, Lifford Shillingford has an amazing voice and there was a female trio there one night who were excellent and also appeared in Headliners another night. The comedy magician was very good and was in both the supper club and the main theater.

I found the supper club a little lacking in atmosphere though  , they no longer serve food and there is no bar. Drinks can be ordered but only before the show starts and service was very slow.

The Duelling pianos were on every second night in Headliners and we really enjoyed going to that! Great atmosphere there 🥳

[jcann4444]

On 7/20/2022 at 10:09 PM, marktwothousand said:

@jcann4444 did you notice if smoking was allowed in the casino thank you 

Yes smoking allowed in one section , the middle of the casino, not the casino area near the Bar/Club/Elevators.

 

Oddly enough lots of smokers come and sit at a slot and do not play but just stay smoke and leave which is annoying. 

[jcann4444]

On 7/21/2022 at 12:13 AM, Ixtoras said:

Thats a bummer that they canceled Corfu.  Re porting to Bar for crew replenishment makes sense. IIRC, NCL used Bar City for staging crew during the restart and was often the last port before a ship came online.  Think things are still a bit wonky with crew contracts all ending around the same t8mes.  Some of the crew on the Encore were talking about an upcoming rotation, and that staff were getting offers to extend a couple months.

 

Three questions:

Malevo was the second show in the main theater.  Did you see it and was it any good? Did not see it but others said it was good. 

Dueling pianos - same question.  Have fond memories of the howl at the moon group on the getaway in 2019. Yes good and as exepected for any such kind. 

Last - the supper club....  looks like maybe variety acts?  Did you catch any of those? I did not and did not hear anyone say that they had been..oddly enough I might add, also never really lines of people outside. Appears to be very underutilized. 

 

Thanks 

Jeff

 

 

[Ixtoras]

Thanks again for taking questions!   Super excited for our November cruise on the Escape.

[pasto5]

On 7/18/2022 at 4:22 PM, jcann4444 said:

Feel free to ask away any questions you may have. This was from Rome and had 5 ports of call.  Will post dailies later for each day. Excellent cruise overall with one negative. Corfu was cancelled the week before and we went to Bar Montengro from 5:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Who gets off the ship at 5:00 AM. I also learned that 250 crew were added and replaced in Montengro which makes me believe this was for no other reason than financial for NCL. I also learned that Bar does not charge for a travel visa for crew. I find it hard to believe that NCL on a moments notice had 250 crew from around the World come to Bar. 

We were on the cruise right before you on the Escape. We had Corfu cancelled with nothing to replace it. We also had Croatia deleted and replaced with Malta. Mykonos was cancelled at the last minute allegedly due to rough seas although 3 other cruise ships were in port that day. And Athens and Santorini were switched at the last minute. Our Athens cruise tour was cancelled with no substitutions offered. It was my first Norwegian cruise - we enjoyed most of the cruise but these parts made it hard to know if we could consider another Norwegian cruise.