Semi-Live Getaway Mar 18th to Mar 26th

[egurbi]

My pleasure. Also may work on omelette line if you complain you can’t stand for long periods of time. 

[LoungerOnBalcony55]

Looks like they missed GSC today....

[egurbi]

Yes we missed GSC.  Some very unhappy passengers onboard.  Always a difficult thing for the crew to handle but they are doing their best.

 

In other news, there really has been a cutback on entertainment on the Getaway.  2 nights in the theater for the comedians, 2 nights in the theater for the magician.  Pretty slim pickings on musical offerings around the ship Next step -- Howl at the Moon in the theater?

[egurbi]

For those following the thread, I thought I would add a few things from this sailing:

 

1. We arrived in Nassau today at 6 AM and they started letting folks off by 715, 45 minutes ahead of schedule.  They really have done their best to maximize beach time or at least port time for those who wanted it because of missing GSC yesterday.

 

2.  The nassau port buildings are coming along.  I spoke with one of the supervisors who "hoped" they would be completed by end of May. 

 

3. Internet has been decent throughout the cruise.

 

4.  Casino has been packed the entire cruise.

 

5.  Lots of availability in many specialty restaurants despite high passenger count.

 

6. Stewards are still smiling, but clearly working long days and overworked.

 

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[bedfordmom]

On 3/22/2023 at 1:12 PM, egurbi said:

Yes we missed GSC.  Some very unhappy passengers onboard.  Always a difficult thing for the crew to handle but they are doing their best.

 

In other news, there really has been a cutback on entertainment on the Getaway.  2 nights in the theater for the comedians, 2 nights in the theater for the magician.  Pretty slim pickings on musical offerings around the ship Next step -- Howl at the Moon in the theater?

Hey they put the pool band in the Theater the last night on the 2/26 cruise.  What happened to Burn the Floor, Million Dollar Quartet and Broadway Unplugged (those shows were repeated three times during my cruise-so it made for slim pickings the nights that they were repeated.) I thought that Rumours could have gone into a bigger venue

[egurbi]

Burn the floor played 2 nights.  MDQ will play 1 night. I understand musical taste is subjective, but the pool band is, in a word, terrible. 

[bedfordmom]

4 hours ago, egurbi said:

Burn the floor played 2 nights.  MDQ will play 1 night. I understand musical taste is subjective, but the pool band is, in a word, terrible. 

The pool band  Zenhit for the 2/26 cruise actually disembarked with us. They were very good but not so great to play the theater, another way to cut costs on entertainment. 

[dexddd]

Thanks for the update.  When they missed gsc they often went to Nassau that night.  Not really a good thing as most things closed pre Corona.

 

I've been watching construction there for a long time.  I'd be surprised if it is done by May of this year, maybe they meant 2025.

[egurbi]

Re: Nassau Port Construction:  you may be right, but it does seem to be coming together quite quickly now.

 

Two sea days back to New York.  Calm seas at the moment, we are moving at 19 knots.

 

Because of the GSC miss, we will end up with six sea days on this eight day cruise.  Looks like NCL is going to make their nut this cruise with all the onboard spending going on even with the refunds on GSC .