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I believe they were joking. But some of the smoking areas on the ship could be unique. I did not know the small area by the Haven you could smoke. Last year on the Escape they expanded the smoking area the bar above the pool was smoking. On the Bliss it was a tiny area one sided of the H20

Prayers for your mom. I hope you can continue your cruise.

I did see some decline in the food a year ago. I leave on the Joy in March I hope its not even worse or near your experience. I have not been to Maderno in a long time I thought the meat was not very good quality. I am not a fan of the main dinning room on any of the cruise lines I have been on but there is always a couple things I like on the menu. The list of fish you mentioned are all the fish I wont eat especially Tilapia and Flounder Yuck. My last cruise on the Escape my porter house steak was chewy as hell everyone else had great steaks the fillets and the ribeye. I know when these cruise lines call beef angus beef it is not as good quality as choice or prime cuts you can buy at the store.

I will have to disagree with this. In all the cruises over the last 18 years or so I have done not 1 time did they check those check in times. Now I never sailed out of New York maybe its a thing there but I doubt it. Also a lot of folks get excited when they go on a cruise and they want to all meet up together. I do not always do that but we have. I have checked in my family and received drastically different check in times with in minutes apart of clicking the check in button.

I don’t understand how folks do not have potato chips in there house. Seems un American. My in-laws never have cookies or chips. When they come to my house they devour all the chips and cookies. I don’t get it.

In 2 years Mc D raised the price of that tinny Hash brown from $1 to $3 a piece crazy

I have noticed this for years on NCL there chocolate tastes funny I dont know why. The desert will look good you take a bite and yuck.

Can you let us know what the prices were on drinks like beer wine mixed drinks? This would be helpfull for those that are worried about there final bill.

What were the prices for the drinks if you did not buy a package. Beer wine, mixed drink, boat drink?

They do in Tampa! 1 hour from my house. But I like the Breakaway + ships so I always drive to Miami or Port Canaveral.

I am with you on just using my phone app. Way too easy. Every cruise I throw out all that paper stuff.

Cruising is not for everyone. I know a few people that tried it and did not like it. You should have booked a land resort vacation this would of solved most of your issues. I would have never wanted to connect dining with that large group. I have gone with large groups and just made sure myself and my immediate family were with me. I would not want to keep up with 18 people all at the same time for dining and getting off the ship for excursions.

Thank you this is great to hear on the music. We like chilling listening to music on the ship. By the way this is a great review I picked up last week just caught up.

I agree with the OP I think to solve this they should have a hard copy somewhere on the ship you can grab that way the baby boomers and older that have the issues with tech can just grab a copy.

Have you noticed the entertainment lacking like most have suggested? Admittingly I am not huge on most of the show the DW is. I love the live music and the shows like Million dollar quartet or Jersey boys. Blue man was awesome too.

Yea when it happed to me I said are there any other rooms I did not want a disability room for obvious reasons like not being disabled. And when I booked it would not allow me to choose my own room. That is why I called asking to move me and there were no other rooms.

The Epic was built before pickle ball got popular.

NCL has assigned me a ADA room when I booked online in the past. And they have to tell you that you can get kicked out. But this is not going to happen. They assigned you the room they are not going to kick you out. On top of this your room is not going to be online available to book. If someone is looking for a cruise and there are no haven rooms available are they going to call and see if they can kick someone out of there room so they can have it I would say no.

Good luck. I tried to upgrade my cabin by calling after final payment. They just quoted me the top bid price not a guarantee price like they used to.

A reservation system for room cleaning. LOL that would make a lot of folks loose it.

Yea my last cruise on the Escape out of Orlando about a year ago they kept running out of things and when I first got on the ship the district brew house was out of 75% of the draft beers. They kept telling me when something was out that I would like some random thing better. One word I hate when I am told is "Package". Sir that is not part of the package cant stand it. I can read what is on or not in the package.

I also believe they do a lot of things for our own good because they do not want the huge line of complaints. We all have seen the large lines on just about every cruise.

Most on here do not understand how the tech works. Most of the speed or connectivity issues have to do with the ship not starlink. For instance access points on the ship. If your in a spot on the ship with lack of access points near you your not getting a good signal.

I learned allot after my first 3 or 4 cruises some things you just realize you do not want to eat or do on a cruise no matter which line your on. The 2 specialty restaurants you chose are my least favorite I would of went with Cagney's, French or the seafood restaurants. I hardly ever eat in the main dining for dinner on NCL I do not find the quality or taste of the food to be that good. Breakfast and lunch they are fine and so is the Buffett. I never give up my land vacations. I go to Hawaii every year for 2 weeks I have gone twice a year a couple times. I would never take a cruise to Hawaii it would not come close to the vacation we have. But I do have long time friends that live there so we have a lot of options.

Loving your review. A few quick questions I had were Do they have 16oz beers or 12 oz. I do know some never came in 16oz IE Heineken, Corona. Did they have the prime rib day I did not see it posted in the dailies. Did they have a good selection of draft beer my last cruise the draft was very limited even in the District Brew house.