BirdTravels

For the younger crowd, the mini ropes course

Bocce Ball anyone?

Gotta tee time? Play mini golf in the shadows of the ropes course.

Choir of Man continues to be the only production show on the ship. The installment of a replacement for After Midnight has been delayed several times with no ETA. The ship continues to use guest performers with contracts of 2-5 weeks. The After Midnight dressing room is being used by guest performers until a permanent production show is installed. Choir of Man - the current cast has two weeks left on their contract. There is no overlap between casts, one disembarks and the new cast embarks on the same day. The new cast will have a few days to rehearse on the real set before their first performance. Syds Pourhouse has a new cast that embarked a week ago. There are 84 numbers in their set list and they are slowly building up to that each week. The Elton John tribute show is in week 2 of 5 weeks. The Birds recognize that the group lead used to be a member of the Choir of Man cast on the Escape and Encore and now has his own Elton John show.

The Bird needed to do some laundry and found the not-self-serve laundry on Deck 2. The large presses take the damp tablecloths and sheets, drys the, presses them, and folds them automatically. The school bus-sized washer has 12 compartments and the laundry is automatically advanced between compartments. At the end, the damp laundry is automatically sent one deck up to be dried and pressed.

The crew gym had a selection of exercise equipment and bikes for the crew to use while in port.

The Bird found a great bar called The Cove that serves discounted drinks. It has live music every night with different groups performing. Foosball without a card reader. A great place to socialize! The Cove is the crew bar, larger of the two crew entertainment areas. Part of your DSC goes to monthly crew parties with free drinks, food, entertainment.

Looking for a bathroom, The Bird ended up in the Trash Room. All trash from passenger cabins and public trash cans is sorted by hand. Glass is sorted by color and crushed. Plastics and aluminum crushed. Cardboard is sorted by whether it has been contaminated by food. Things that can be incinerated go into pile. NCL works with vendors to minimize packing material.

Today “butler treat”

The District Brewhouse has a large selection of beers on tap and in bottles. If you drink all the different varieties of beer, you’ll get your name up in lights! There is also great music nightly.

The one arm bandits are now one button bandits. Still bandits. The Escape had one of the largest casinos in the fleet.

Wanna pay for your cruise, hit it big in the Escape Casino.

The Manhattan Room has a section of tables for groups. Mostly 10-tops for family and group dinners. But what if you need a table for 140 people. The Manhattan Room sets up a couple of 70-tops for you

Day 2 Main Dining Room

Day 1 to Day 2 we roll the clock back 1 hour. The ship is now on Central Time.

This week we have not one, not two, but three Elton John tribute artists from England preforming on the Escape.

NCL does not have water bottle filling stations. You are allowed to take the small, clean cups to get water from the dispensers and pour into your bottle. Never place your bottle up to a public dispensing station.

Today’s “butler treats”

Need less buffet and more specialty dining? Buy a package with more nights.

The Bird wonders how much a room on this ship costs for a week.

Happy Mother’s Day Miami Time to sail away

If you don’t like the taste of boiled sea water from PortMiami? Then get a water package for bottled water delivered to your stateroom.