NCL Escape Family Review March 17th

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After breakfast we traditionally went to the buffet to grab a box of cereal and a couple of milks to put in the refrigerator for the baby.

I took baby to the Guppy’s nursery where they have free time that parents can sit with their child while they play with the toys. We were the only ones there and he had a wonderful time.

When we got back to the room everyone was up and of course they were hungry so off the the buffet. In the buffet of course I had my favorite Bahama Momma. Everyone else had a mixture of an early lunch selection. Husband gave baby spaghetti and Mac & cheese (in his white shorts. [emoji35])



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Going back to the room baby had a meltdown when we passed the nursery he wanted to go play! But it was nap time! On to the room where I and the boys played a few rounds of uno while husband went to the thermal spa.

He loves the hot tubs and sauna. He sat in the heated lounger for awhile then showered there and joined us for a game or 4.

We asked Gede to leave the bottom sofa bed out to allow us space to sit as a family. But he would of happy made it up everyday if we wanted.


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After our Uno marathon my oldest had to get some homework completed and husband took baby for a walk. So middle son and I went back to the buffet (man we went there a lot today) to get a light lunch.


This is the only thing I ate at the buffet.


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We walked to look at the ship photographs that had been taken over the week. Usually, we have pictures in the dinning rooms every night along with every port. But we truly only had 2 photos. One from GSC and the other of the boys at sail away. Crazy!!

We had noticed photography stations before dinner most nights in the atrium. So we tried to get baby to stand for a photo alone and he wasn’t having it.


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We planned on the boys going for a late dinner at La Cucina so hubby and I along with baby went to Savor at 5 for dinner.

Garfield had the chef make me a yummy dessert of warm cinnamon apples with lemon sorbet. It was so thoughtful and so good!


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After dinner we headed back to the room only for baby to have another meltdown wanting to go play in the nursery. After going to the room and finding a maintenance worker fixing the slow draining tub my husband convinced me to give daycare another try.

We left baby and got a drink in the casino. I set my phone alarm to make sure We would have plenty of time to pick him up. I kept waiting on the pager to go off and heard nothing so we played slots for awhile and then my alarm went off that we needed to head to pick him up.

He had a GREAT time and never cried. Plus, this time momma had no tears. For these sessions the cost is $20 per session (about 2 hours). We might try this again tomorrow. After we picked up baby it was off to bed for him.


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We waited up for the big boys to come back from the specialty restaurant. They had mixed reviews. My middle son loved his spaghetti and my oldest said the dumplings were okay but not what he expected.



(They knew their momma would want pictures and sent these to me. Lol)
They went on to have ice cream at the buffet and roam the ship for awhile before coming back to the room.


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One more sea day to go!! And the boat was in some really rough seas over night.


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[salzdt]

On 4/8/2019 at 10:52 PM, Lisalk12 said:

Big boys went up on the pool deck and it was freezing (40’s but to us that’s cold)!

One of the reasons we will probably only sail out of NYC in the summer from now on.


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Thank you for the fantastic review and photos of you cruise on the Escape.  Your family is beautiful.  We are thinking of doing a Canada/New England cruise in September.

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1 hour ago, salzdt said:

Thank you for the fantastic review and photos of you cruise on the Escape.  Your family is beautiful.  We are thinking of doing a Canada/New England cruise in September.

We are doing the Canada/New England cruise in September.  Can't wait!

 

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Thank you for the fantastic review and photos of you cruise on the Escape.  Your family is beautiful.  We are thinking of doing a Canada/New England cruise in September.

Thank you for your kind words! Love cruising and never been to Canada. Might have to add that to the list.


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Saturday- Sea day.
Woke up to another beautiful but rough, windy and cold day aboard the NCL Escape.

Breakfast at O’Sheehan’s. It kind of amazes me that I can order the same thing and always something is a little different about it. But never got sick so... anyway this is what the country platter should look like minus mushrooms (the only thing my husband will not eat).

And off we went to the buffet for cartons of milk and boxes of cereal.


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The Garden Buffet has hand washing stations that allow you to wash with soap and running water. Sometimes the attendant mandated the washing other times a little spray of washy washy and you were deemed okay to go. Not sure what made the difference. I did notice that salt and pepper shakers as well as mustard and ketchup were on the tables all week. Which for me is a sign that we didn’t have an outbreak of any kind this week. Good job washy washying this week friends!!!


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On the way back to the room we noticed that the disembarkation luggage tags were out next to guest services.

Our flight out was scheduled for 11:20. We worried about having enough time to get through customs and to the airport checkin. So we chose to do self walk off and keep our bags with us. This works well if you can maneuver down stairs and escalators with your luggage.

Plus this is the first group called and we will hopefully not have to stand in long lines.


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After getting our teen up we went to the 5 o’clock somewhere bar to listen to some Family Karaoke. Always a fun time and so much talent aboard this boat. I was hoping baby might fall asleep but he was so entertained he managed to fight it.

So we went to the room and dropped off everyone for a nap while I took our middle son to eat at the garden cafe and get myself a drink. On Saturday nights they have an oriental night with a suckling pig. And O’Sheehan’s has prime rib from 5:30-9:30.

The boys were going to one or the other for dinner when my husband and I had a date night at the Italian speciality restaurant.



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During babies nap chocolates from the casino were delivered.

This should of been my first clue that hubby was spending to much $$ there. When baby woke . Baby went to Guppy’s and had a great time while we went shopping. Found some great TShirts from our ports for 2 for $20.



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Then we went to play bingo.
The bingo line was really long and it meant that the beginning of the game would be delayed.

On cruises we typically play every bingo and deal or no deal. But this cruise was so different! So we got the BIG package that had raffle tickets, lotto tickets and tons of bingo cards.
We were close to winning a couple of times and had a great time. Because of the late start I had to leave before the end of bingo and pickup baby. He had another great time. While waiting on bingo to finish up baby and I noticed that do to high winds even the waterfront was closed off.



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The boys went to have an early dinner at the Garden Cafe while my husband and I had a late lunch (specialty dinner wasn’t until 9:15). We went to O’Sheehans and enjoyed the prime rib special.

Afterward we went back to the room to pack up. Gede was in turning down the room so we spent time in the hallway playing with the large kiosk.

For some reason baby thought these were the coolest thing ever and would die laughing every time we touched it. Guppy’s was getting ready to start for the evening and we thought packing might be a little easier without little one so we headed down and he ran right in to play with his friends.


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After packing we had a little bit before daycare time was up so we ran up to the brewhouse.


I love the vibe here and would of spent a lot more time here if it was just us big folk on the cruise. The other mixed drinks as well of bottled and on tap selections of beer.
My favorite mixed drink.
This is when we figured out we were having issues with our sail card. Now, for some reason on about 3 of our last cruises our cards have stopped working. Once it was due to someone stealing our credit information and our bank stopping all use. But this time it was an old expired card that we had originally booked with so we just changed out the card and we were free to buy beers again!


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We stopped by the Cruise Next to see if we might be interested in certificates. We already have two but can only use them on Balcony or higher. So we decided not to buy anymore at this time.


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After picking up baby we went to the room and got him dressed for bed. Big boys babysat while husband and I went on to the speciality restaurant.

When checking in we got the first hint that maybe my order hadn’t been placed correctly. We were seated and I was asked what my order had been and asked who took it. It was double checked by another person. My husband gave his order and asked for bread (by this time we were starving!).
The food came out quickly and was supper yummy!

Best pasta I had had in a long time. I believe we closed down the restaurant but they were very nice and tried to make us feel unrushed. We stopped at the casino to lose a little bit more $$ and I left my husband there while I went back to make sure baby was in bed. While my husband was out that evening a casino host gave him a certificate and a number to call to use his amount played credited towards another cruise.


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Sunday - disembarkation

Woke at 4:00 to the realization we had already arrived at the port. Managed to go back to sleep until my 6:00 alarm.

Woke everyone and took our time getting ready and finished packing. At 7:00 they began early calls for anyone that was doing self walk off. We were thinking about heading that way but our Uber driver had been texting hubby yesterday and already this morning to let us know he would be waiting where we were dropped off at 8. We left the room at 7:30 managed to get an elevator to the 7th floor and wrapped through the O’Sheehan’s bar/arcade and showed our sail away card one last time. Heading into customs I and baby in his stroller got to go down an elevator while everyone else pulled their luggage on the escalator. Walked straight to the customs agent and was done and in the Uber by 8:05. We had plenty of time at the airport and sat down for a nice breakfast before the long plane ride to Dallas and the marathon drive to Ok. Traffic and construction was crazy!


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Just a couple of additional things that I learned along the way. You can use the NCL Texting App to call the stateroom directly. Just dial the room number. It was useful when boys phones were dead.

Husbands favorite beer at the Brewhouse


Rough seas can be tough on some people.


Bring an old hotel room key to keep in the light switch. Kept us from turning out the lights to see whose sail card was in the switch.


USB Charger outlet by bed!!


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Fish on the carpet swim to the front of the ship.


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I’ll make copies of the dailies and post tomorrow. Thank you so much for following our journey. It was wonderful! Can’t wait to sail again soon!


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