tropical83

I used my own on the Getaway last year and blew a circuit in my cabin. After that I obviously ended up using the one in my cabin and it was fine. I have long thick hair as well. I plan on just using the one in the cabin when I sail the Escape this summer!

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Great review, thanks for posting! I sail the Escape in 109 days and I cannot wait!

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Great Review @tropical83

 

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

Looking forward to your review!

Kind of funny, we just got home from a AZ Diamondback vs Marlins baseball game and now I find your review! Great review by the way. I love pictorial reviews and yours was a good mix of info and photos. Thanks!

Thanks, I'm glad you liked my review!

Loved your review, pics and info- thanks for taking the time to post. Now if October would hurry up and get here!

Thanks for reading! Have a great cruise in October!

I just got off the Breakaway (Love!).. Already thinking what is next.. I had to stop and tell you I found my answer to the swelling. It is just as bad for me as you.. Just feet, ankles and a bit up my legs.. It must be the salt and it only happens to me on cruises. Not land based on hot humid islands.. Never fingers, hands. The damn feet. I bought herbal water pills at CVS.. No caffeine. Did they help? Not sure, stopped taking them. I did buy a small water package for the room, maybe it helped?

 

The key! One of the heavy life jackets found under the bed we placed under the mattress on my side.. I had no choice but to sleep with them raised, actually comfortable. Almost all swelling went down every night.. It would slowly swell the next day, all down with sleep. I was so happy, The past three cruises have been quite a pain with how uncomfortable I became. It disappeared within a day of eating my normal home cooked food..

 

I also rubbed my feet and legs with Burts Bees peppermint foot lotion, just felt good.. Maybe helped? You can try dry brushing as well..

Thanks for the tips! I will for sure be more prepared next time I cruise and try the herbal water pills. I'll also try and stay away from the soups or too much sodium. I skipped the main dining room 2 days in a row, so no soup, and my swelling wasn't as bad after this.

We didn't get to bed until after 3 am. And we had an excursion the next morning and an 8:15 am tender booked. Oops.

 

May I ask how you booked the 8:15 am tender. We will have a private excursion in Belize and will need the get off the ship as early as possible. Thank you!

 

You are able to book tenders in your room on the TV. We did it as soon as we were able to go to our room!

 

Great review

Enjoyed the photos

Planning my next cruise

Very helpful

 

Thanks, I'm glad I was helpful!

Well done on a great review that really brought me back to the ship! The Escape is on my short list for our next cruise as well. Anyway, you've inspired me to write a detailed review on our Getaway cruise from March so keep your eyes open to this forum, where I hope to start one during the next few days.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed my review.

And I look forward to reading yours!

I saw the same thing! Some people are just rude and inconsiderate. The crew often works without a day off, spending months away from their families, and don't deserve attitude from people who can't wait two minutes for a drink.

I know! But sadly I guess there will always be people like that around.

The Getaway really is a great ship and I would definitely recommend it!

I will admit that there were many things the ship had to offer that we didn't experience. We kept saying we would get around to trying the water slide, playing mini golf, maybe doing the ropes coarse, maybe going to a comedy show etc. I don't really regret not doing those things so I guess that is a good thing!

As a previous 2 time Carnival cruiser, I will say that I loved Norwegian! I would still sail Carnival again but I don't think I would want to sail any of their older ships. There were some things that I liked better on Carnival but I still think my overall cruise experience was better on Norwegian. At first my husband wouldn't really give me an answer when I asked him which cruise line he liked better. About a week after the cruise he randomly said out of no where, "Norwegian was better"

As you know this was our friends first cruise. We are the ones that talked them into trying a cruise so I was really hoping they would like it. I'm happy to say they loved it and they can't wait to cruise again. Hopefully we can plan one again together for next year. I'd love to sail the Escape!

Great pic of all you guys with Joao! The crew members work so hard nonstop and it's nice to see that you guys made a personal connection.

Thanks! And yes they do work so hard! There was a few times on the cruise I saw some people at the bars being so impatient and yelling at the bartenders. I hated seeing that. Its not like they were standing there doing nothing, they were busy serving the people that were there first and working as fast as they could.

After Bliss we walked through 678 Ocean place. It was quiet so we took some pictures

We still weren't ready for bed so O'Sheehans it was. We stayed there for a short time. It was already 3 am and we had to do the self disembark in the morning so had planned to get off the ship at 8am. We went our separate ways back to our rooms. We enjoyed the balcony one more time, then went to bed at 4am. We didn't get a towel animal this night for some reason just like we didn't get one the first night.

Here are the 5 towel animals we did get during the cruise

Morning came quick and it was time to leave this beautiful ship. SO SAD! Self Disembark was pretty easy and it didn't take very long to get off the ship. Off to the airport we went and vacation was officially over.

We decided that the night just wasn't over yet so on we went to Bliss for the last time.

Cheers to an amazing cruise on the Getaway

Later on we went to Howl at the Moon and I would say we stayed about an hour. It was our last night so we just had to make sure we spent more time at the Spice H20 bar with Joao. There was also a Farewell party going on.

The bar closed at 1am and we made sure to get a picture with Joao before we said our goodbyes.

I miss this view!

After that we had dinner at the Tropicana Room. I just ordered the shrimp rigatoni again, which I had the first night. There wasn't really anything else I wanted and that was one of the options that was on the menu every night. For dessert I had to have the warm chocolate lava cake one last time. I believe we all ordered it!

We walked around the inside of the ship for a while

We met up with our friends after we got ready. We went for a walk along the waterfront and to take some pictures at the back of the ship.

At some point during the day my husband brought me this drink. I don't know what it was called but it was SO GOOD. After my first sip I thought why didn't I try this drink earlier? But then again maybe it was a good thing that I didn't. I don't even want to know how many calories were in it!

Anyways we stayed at Spice H20 until almost 6pm then went to get ready for the night.

Day 7 – Sea Day

I woke up at about 11:30 am since we went to bed so late. I forced myself to get up right away because I didn't want to waste anymore of our last day sleeping. I didn't bother going to eat right away, I just headed straight to Spice H20 to get a lounger and some sun. My friends were already out there and I was able to get a seat right next to them. My husband met us up there shortly after. The boys spent most of the day between the bar and the waterfall feature and us girls went from the loungers, to the bar, to the waterfall. It was a gorgeous day yet again and very relaxing! Ah I miss it so much! At one point we did go to the Garden Café for lunch. I remember that I did get a burger from the grill this day and it was pretty good! I'd also like to mention that my feet and ankles were looking the best they had since the swelling started. Maybe skipping the main dining room dinners and the soups 2 days in a row helped?

Another gorgeous day. The weather was great the whole trip!

After the party calmed down we made our way to the bar and hung out there and talked with the bartender Joao. Once the Spice H20 bar closed we headed inside and ended up at Bliss night club again lol. Stayed there for a while, went back to our room and ordered some room service pizza. Again, enjoyed the balcony while waiting for the pizza then ate it out there as well. I love having a balcony so much! This was another really late night, we didn't go to bed until about 3:30am! Its hard to want to go to bed when you are enjoying yourself so much and you know your cruise is coming to an end.

Our towel animal for the night

I love how the posts along the glass windows light up, if you look closely you can see it in these pictures