kayjay76

Been to port at St Thomas twice and it's an easy walk off. Like someone else said... if your ship ports at 8am... have your daughter head down say maybe 730am to wait to be off as soon as she can. It's also a nice short pier walk compared to some other ports.

On ‎1‎/‎4‎/‎2020 at 8:55 PM, BirdTravels said:

 

Your room steward provides as much coffee as you want. No need to buy your own for the Hamilton Beach coffee maker

This is the only time I have to disagree with you Bird lol. On the Getaway a year before our cabin steward treated coffee like it was gold. I'm a huge coffee drinker, drink it even before I head to bed. On the 1st day... as I always do while handing him a 20$... I informed out steward of this and asked to be left extras for each day. He never gave us more than 2 so each day I'd have to search for him and ask for more. On our 4th day he actually looked at me, said nothing, pointed his finger to follow him out to his cart and pointed to his empty drawer to inform me he had none. I Totally felt reprimanded. But he was also the worst steward we've ever had on any ship lol. 

I  was thinking of bringing extra pods... Is this allowed in my luggage at airport and at port? Thanks!!

Hi all, Sailing Feb 1st Breakaway out of Port Canaveral. On all our Edocs ( large group) It says arrival time 12pm.

We have never sailed out of this port, only Miami. And every other ncl cruise we were able to choose our boarding time. But this time it didn't offer any of us to pick a time, just stated 12pm. Is this just how this port does it?

Thanks!!! 

I always tip a few dollars for room service.

Is the food scrumptious???.... well.... lol. No IMO. I'm really not picky with food at all but I'd say its around basic pub food level. Great for late at night when nothing is open. And getting breakfast in morning is a nice!

Hi all, Can anyone confirm or deny if there are outlets and or USB ports next to the beds in a balcony room on the Breakaway?

If not... are the closest outlets or ports on the counter where coffee pot is?

Thank you!

Thank you all!!

Can you just bring extra pods? Last 2 cruises for some odd reason I had a problem getting enough pods from my stewards. And we drink a ton of coffee throughout the day. thanks!

Has anyone cruising out of Florida ports early February 2020 receive their flights thru NCL yet? thank you!!

This will be our 4th super bowl cruise and if the football Gods will it... we'll be watching the Pats again!! It's amazing how many people on the boat don't like the Patriots so it's kinda fun when you see other Pats fans, nice bonding thing lol. It was also nice to educate some Pats haters about all the charity work they do, how Craft has revitalized Foxboro and our surrounding towns ( I'm about 10 min from stadium), how humble Brady actually is and to remind people that for years n years they couldn't GIVE away tickets cause the team was so bad and the stadium was a dump. 

Each year, on getaway, escape and bliss its been on in the atrium, by the pool, in your room tvs and I'm sure other bars. It was also on at Spice H20 which was the best place to watch but the Bliss didn't have a screen and the Escape had a private party booked that year, which stunk! So no worries fellow Mass neighbor... if we're blessed again with them in it this year, you'll be able to watch it!

14 hours ago, CruiseMaven25 said:

Not sure how much the bedroom suites will go for.  I think we paid $400 for the studio but were upgraded for free to the 1 bed lagoon villa.  

Hi! they look amazing. How many people can use the villa at $400 price? Also... do you know if you can use any of your cruise excursion credit to pay towards the price.... we have $50 per port credit. Thank you!!! 

12 hours ago, gmbhardy said:

1) Yes they have hangers

2) There are not any outlets by the beds, you’ll have to run an extension cord over to the outlets on the wall over the desk

3) Bring a lot of patience and sense of humour because my cruise on the Breakaway last week was a comedy of errors. I will post my experience shortly.

I can't wait to read review. A friend of mine was on your cruise and she said staff was terrible across the board.

10 hours ago, Oakman58 said:

A heads up about your balcony cabin, there are no USB ports in the room.  I thought for sure there would be USB ports in the cabin because the Breakaway was refurbished in 2018.

there isn't any by the bed in the lamps? I need to bring my usb fan uggg! lol If anyone knows for sure that' be great to know

We've always booked directly from the vendors themselves... saves a lot from booking an NCL excusion and saves a little from using sites like viator and shoretrips.com. With some research and reading reviews you can see if a company is any good. 

For example... on our western carib cruise we wanted to do the ruins in costa maya so I read bunches of posts on cruisecritic and found a company called Native Choice. We were still a bit nervous booking directly thru them but In the end we were so happy we did!!! We paid 60% less than NCL for the same exact tour. We arrived and left at the same time the NCL bus did and saved over 60$ pp and the company was great!!!

Same thing for some of our beach excursions or all inclusives day passes... booked directly thru hotel instead of using shoretrips.com and saved around 5-10$ pp

I suggest if you look on shoretrips and find something you'd like to do.... do a web search for the direct vendor site and compare the price of booking at either place.

Hands down the jan-feb Caribbean. I agree 100% with above post. Also consider that in april the weather will be cold traveling to and from Bermuda out of NY so you will loose those days outside if you like to lounge and if the sun is important to you. April is prime school vacation and some colleges taking late spring break. We sail in the 1st week of Feb every year to avoid most children. And the weather Is great down south that time of year!! Also consider that the water may be a bit more bumpy in april going to Bermuda due to any late season noreasters.

I've never done a mini suite but it seems from posts on here that the bathroom is just bigger. For me... as long as I have a balcony I'm good to go! The Escape is still our favorite ship!!

We're on your cruise and I thought that was weird when I saw it yesterday.  hmmmmm guess we'll have to see if its a glitch or what. Hopefully they don't change anything as we've started booking things to do without ship.

1 hour ago, Laszlo said:

I was on the BA for the Super Ball. Game was on everywhere, cakes a food everywhere. Lots of people at Spice h20 watching the game......Eagles won!

What a sad day that was 😞 lol at least for us patriot fans. We watched at H20 was amazing.

OP... there will be plenty of places to watch including in your room on tv. Stinks you can see the commercials or half time show but still fantastic watching on the boat.

I'm actually surprised by the responses on the coffee being awful lol. I am a huge coffee drinker... drinking one now and it's 2am lol. And I like strong coffee. I find the coffee maker in the room great! Coffee is nice and strong, stronger than at buffett or room service. I always ask the steward to load me up with pods and creamers. 

16 hours ago, hallux said:

No stage?  What's this structure then?

 

 

Opps my bad... I meant a big screen. We like to watch the super bowl there and theres no screen. 

I'm sure I'm going to repeat some from above but this was my opinion of Bliss compared to Getaway. Remember... everyones' likes in a ship are different so what bothered me, might not bother most....

1. Location of Buffet. We always book the AFT. We love how we can hop on the elevators and come right out at buffet. With the Bliss the buffet was more in the middle ( totally my fault for not noticing when choosing room site). So we had to get on the elevator... walk across the open pool deck to get to the buffet. Or we could have walked thru the small hallways after taking elevator. For us... it' was an awful location for buffet to be moved to.

Also the buffet itself... on other ships its one long line on both sides. With Bliss it had cut throughs every 20 feet or so. So it made it really disorderly, never knew where line was for an items or station and people just everywhere. Never knew if you saw all the food that was offered. Bad set up.

2. H20. It seemed half the size on the Bliss from the breakaway ships. No stage, crowded. Also the night parties are my favorite at H20, like the 80's night!!! On the Bliss the 80s night was inside this absolute tiny club. Was awful!!!!

3. Everything on the Bliss just seemed smaller and squished. Not because of people but actually size. I assume to accomidate the observation lounge. The resturants seemed smaller, hallways, etc.

4. The pool deck on the Bliss was great. Super open and spacious even though the pool was just as small as other ships.

5. Balconies were much bigger, more normal sized on the Bliss. Getaway was tiny!! 

6. Go karts were fun on the Bliss, go late at night, no waiting. But I could totally do without these for more deck chair space.

7. The observation lounge. It was gorgeous!!! and huge!!! The ship seemed built for Alaska, not warm weather as it took space from outside. The lights food served there was great, nice quiet spots to sit.

All in all I found the Bliss more upscale than the Getaway. Which was nice. But the layout of the ship I did not like. Not sure if we would book it again. And I know most will disagree with me but like I said before... we all have small things on cruises that we love and make our trips. And my things fell short on the Bliss. So far our favorite ship is the Escape!!

Your best bet is to familiarize yourself with the deck plans and type of room you'd like. Before you call NCL... load up the deck plan on your computer or tablet. This way when you are speaking to the rep and they suggest a room, you can pull that deck right up to see if this works for you. 

Hi all, never had the excursions $50 credit per port as a perk. If we do not take any excursions with ncl… does the credit just go away? Or is it like an obc and added to our obc? 

Thank you!!!

On ‎9‎/‎12‎/‎2019 at 7:03 AM, newmexicoNita said:

as has been our experience, Keith you are completely right. OP enjoy both dining choices. We love Moderno's and will be doing Ocean Blue for the first time on our Oct Breakaway sailing. 

I can't wait to try Moderno. My husband went to Ocean Blue with a few family members on the Escape or Getaway (can't remember which) And loved it. We went last year on the Bliss and it was just ok. He said it didn't compare to his experience from before on the other boat. Hopefully the Breakaway it will be great as before!!

Thank you all for your responses!!!

Hi all! Sailing breakaway 2020 feb

We have the dining package. And I'm looking at Moderno, which we have never done before. I see the upcharge is $39. How does that work with the package... do we pay the difference? Or is it the flat $39 and it doesn't count on our package as a meal used since we paying separate. And lastly.... if I choose to book online when res opens up... do I have to pay them with credit card on website?

Also.... Ocean Blue seems to be al la carte on the Breakaway... is there no upcharge for that now or is it included on the package like Cagneys etc..

Thank you!!

When we were there, all these ports/cabs accepted US cash.

I agree with Bird about catching a cab in Roatan... Hounduras port is super sketchy, the worst I have seen. We had a large group of us going to a private excursion and had the people meet us at the gates then walked us about 5 blocks to where their bus was parked. Even with our 12 large manly men friends we were all a little on the worried side. This is a port I'd deffinitly plan ahead for and go in a group.

23 minutes ago, VPMJ said:

Hello. Is it possible to modify a specialty dining reservation party size? For example if the reservation is for 6 people and only 4 people ultimately decide to go?

You mean while on the ship right? If say 2 people decide that day they don't want to go to dinner right? If so yes.... you can simply call the reservations line right from your room and tell them your new party size. Or you can tell the hostess when you go down for dinner but I think they prefer to know ahead of time because of table space.