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We booked in July. One room with adults (UBP for the 2 adults). One room with kids (UDP for the 2 kids). As stated above, the promo listed on the kids' reservation is Child's Dining Pkg. in looking at the menus for specialty restaurants on a Getaway in November, I don't see why distinction between child's price and adult's price. Please tell me my kids won't have to order off a kids menu in the specialty restaurants.....

They will not.

No child has ever " had " to order off a child's menu, they have not had a specialty child's menu in a long time.

A generic ship wide kids menu is available or used to be.

There is no price difference now, or not suppose to be. Kids use to be 1/2 price but NCL did away with kid's pricing.

We hit the water slides and ropes course before we left Miami on Breeze.

They were open in every port.

Oh is this tempting to post some videos...

oh well...

He has a great review of the Spa and Haven

http://www.jimzim.net/NorwegianGetaway.html

The Haven pool on Getaway

From Jim Zim's web site

Similar though Escapes looks wider in the one shallow pool and you can see a full deck lower in the ship.

cool thanks for sharing.

 

Looking at the Haven pool it looks extra tiny, Almost more of a water feature. Are the Hot tubs bigger?

 

For those who have sailed the other aways does it look the same?

None of the Haven pools are large. But there will be more people in the Haven on Escape compared to the Away ships.

Thanks for sharing these, Rocky and FreestyleNovice!

 

There's the dinky Haven pool:

Terrible looking pool dinky or not! :cool:

Cost

Year round choice from Florida

Camp Ocean/Carnival is very good and parent friendly in its hours of operation.

Food in MDR is good

Just like it.

Although after the Breeze it will be hard to go to just any Carnival ship! :p

A much larger balcony, sorry to kick this up but 16100 seems to have a great balcony.

 

Check out the Everything Escape thread. Hope this helps a bit!

 

@OP/Shipboard Babe: Plleease report back about this gem :D

Larger only in longer, its still a skinny balcony, even if it is slightly deeper than the Away's

Is food republic bookable?

Or a walk up seating type of place like Maragitaville?

First thanks for the excellent review, looking forward to more,

but

I must say the crowded pool pictures, buffet shot, lines for water slide and rock wall and even some of the food porn... some of the food does not look that great. Is that Beef Wellington? Slathered in all that Gravy?

does not make the ship look enticing...sorry but they don't

Never sailed the Dream but have sailed the Breeze.

Sailed in a family suite on Dawn

There is no contest.

I would choose the Dream. MDR food on CCL is better than NCL and the ship is not over crowded.

The Dawn is old and at times feels it.

Way more to do on the Dream for both kids and adults. Way more.

Now the Breeze did correct some of Dream's deficencies.

The suite made the Dawn a good cruise. And if you choose to sail in a suite then I might choose the Dawn, but only if.

Yep, CCL did no one a favor with that. All the family suites and the family cove balconies are under the galley.

Some of the family deluxe OV are not under the galley but the MDR, which would be much better.

Not everyone who had a cove under the galley on the Dream class complained of noise, but many did. All night noise in some cases.

Family section should have been higher and closer to the kids club.

Vista in some ways is not as family/kid friendly a design. No quads in the Spa, and the Cabana exclusion.

Great for the kid haters though.. ;)

Both the steak and lobster were steakhouse cuts and were prepared perfectly. They were worth the $20 if you want good lobster and an excellent steak.

We had reservations at the steakhouse but for some reason had to cancel, so we splurged in the MDR instead.

Worth it to us.

That said you can't get the spice rub that they have at the steakhouse so that was a bit of a letdown, but the steak was so good it really didn't need it.

Can you please explain the difference to me? Unfortunately, I probably can't do it due to muscle damage in my leg from an injury. But, I like to know about things for my 15 year old nephew.

Rappelling is going down from the top, using a rope system to slow your descent.

As opposed to climbing up a wall with a rope to keep you from falling.

If you are all eating together, then sure, just hand them your card, they will charge the whole table to your account.

I didn't cruise in the 70's & 80's because everything about it was unappealing.

 

I cringe at the notion of being assigned 6 other people to eat with.....all week.

 

 

In the 70's & 80's we traveled the world using our time-share instead.

 

 

Now that cruising is more palatable, we do this most of the time.

 

 

Stephen

 

 

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Well it was more open to new ideas and meeting new people. Certainly that's not today's world cruising or otherwise.

No you can email the Steakhouse directly

MCSTEAKHOUSE@carnival.com

They can make reservations and you will get an email confirmation.

also make Chef's table reservations through them.

In which direction?

 

 

a) You traveled in reverse?

 

b) you slept on the outside of the ship, and admired the water from the inside?

 

c) the hull was on top, and the sundeck underwater?

 

d) the propulsion was manual, not mechanical?

 

e) you served the crew at mealtimes?

 

 

 

Did I miss something? I'm not sure I would have enjoyed that 180 degree difference from today's cruise product.

 

 

Stephen

 

 

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Apart from your sillyness and trying to be clever, if you didn't cruise in the 70's and 80's then you definatly missed something.

Pretty sure I will survive as well, but thanks for your concern. Now whether or not you will survive your affliction of taking yourself way too seriously? I'm not so sure...

 

By the way, the giant smiley face indicates that one is having fun with the situation. I can understand how that might confuse you.

On the Breeze you are at best a medium pizza

:)

At being the thread police a single slice with no drink. :D

Thanks and glad you enjoyed the BREEZE pics. Here is the review that went with them.

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1793166

 

 

I'll be honest the BREEZE was a mixed bag. Some great things but also a decline in some Carnival staples like entertainment, food quality, and service. The cutbacks were very evident. I also felt BREEZE was very crowded and the public areas quite warm. I've cruised on Carnival since (FREEDOM) and it was a big improvement over the BREEZE so perhaps Carnival revisited some of their cutbacks and made improvements.

 

I hope you have a great time on BREEZE and hopefully many of the issues I had won't be for you.

We had the opposite.

The Breeze never felt crowded, we though most of the MDR food was very good and were mildly surprised by the American Table menu's. Tandoor was excellent, enjoyed the Italian place, kids loved the new Camp Ocean themed kids club. Even the Chef's Table rocked!

Entertainment on CCL is not so great but what we did we enjoyed.

It was our best overall family cruise ever.

Escape has a high hurdle to overcome and already being one day less it is already in arrears.

I will pay for the supper club on the Escape to see the John Hughes music tribute.

 

 

Will FDR Discount ?

 

 

 

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:eek: Unlikely :cool:

What have they done to the casino?

 

 

 

 

 

What has changed with the CAS product? We have 14 days in an AFT PH suite in South America for $2200 total... and I'm VIP so super-premium drinks included....

 

 

 

 

This whole thread feels like mountains, which in reality turn out to be molehills.

 

 

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Unfortunately NCL changed the CAS program, along with many other changes.

Those changes are neither mountains or molehills, they are simply changes since many people booked.

Yes they did. NCL owns CAS and it's also turned into a gong show.

 

I'm not sure if everyone's picked up on what you're doing, but I think it's hilarious :)

NCL changed the CAS program causing a drastic change to many cruisers. :( ;)