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When is the Epic doing it's eastbound T/A in 2025?
bluesea777 replied to ace2542's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Yeppers, she is due for one in 2025. Every 5 years, and she was launched in 2010. -
When is the Epic doing it's eastbound T/A in 2025?
bluesea777 replied to ace2542's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Okay, to make things clearer for the OP: April 7-19, 2024 Port Canaveral to Civitavecchia (Rome). March 31 - April 15, 2025 New York to Civitavecchia (Rome). -
Any suggestions on a good pre cruise Hotel stay in Miami?
bluesea777 replied to detroitlions's topic in Florida Departures
I think you need to be clearer .... there are dozens Marriott branded hotels in Miami! -
Any suggestions on a good pre cruise Hotel stay in Miami?
bluesea777 replied to detroitlions's topic in Florida Departures
Are you implying that none of the above mentioned hotels weren't good? 🙃 -
So NCL has now removed Valdez from the Alaskan itineraries, to tell you the truth, I'm not surprised. When we stopped in Valdez on June 13th last year we learnt from the tour guide (private) as he was driving us back to ship that it was announced in town the day before (on the 12th) that NCL had decided to pull out of Valdez for the rest of season. NCL itself didn't announce to public until in the evening of the 13th - the following morning (14th). So we, on the Spirit, were the last NCL pax to visit Valdez. This is the excursion we went on while docked in Valdez: Valdez Glacier and Icebergs Tours - Alaska Guide - it was one of the best excursions we've ever been on, ever.
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Hi, when I was researching early last year for our 2023 B2B Alaskan cruises that we started with booking Van-Sew-Van but switched to Sew-Van-Sew after discovering that 1) Vancouver was screaming expensive (sorry Yv) for two nights pre-cruise 2) I was able to score Alaska Air non-stop from Chicago to Anchorage and finding that Chicago was much cheaper than Seattle for the overnight hotel stay near the airport and lastly 3) great tours/excursions in Anchorage and Seward so we spent 3 nights in both Anchorage (1nt) & Seward (2nts) pre-cruise. We did take the train from Anchorage to Seward. We happened to much prefer Seward to Anchorage so perhaps you can switch your cruise to Southbound so you can spend a few days pre-cruise in Alaska, seeing and doing the best of AK before you embark in Seward. The embarkation in Seward is so easy. Seward is a delightful town.
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Hi! Glad you’re back on CC! Happy New Year to you and Dad. Glad to hear about your new job! It’s the Forest Lagoon, not Secret. Guess what? A little while after you completed this review we went ahead and booked the Star 11 days Tromsø to Reykjavik this coming June! A friend of ours has also booked and we all 3 will be driving in rental cars in each port of call (except Hammerfast (a break day) and Longyearbyen) - to save $$$$ in excursions! My DH and I have driven in both Norway & Iceland several times so we’re good to go! I’ve been re-reading this review and making notes! Very informative! We’re staying in Tromsø 3 nights pre-cruise and in Reykjavik & South Iceland 3 days post-cruise. Due to short time in Iceland we can only do one or the other of these two - Blue Lagoon or lava fields hike, so I asked our friend which he wants to go: Blue Lagoon or Forest Lagoon …. he chose the latter! It’s our friend’s first time to Norway & Iceland! He is going to love driving there.
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Last dry dock was in Nov 2020, therefore she’s due for one in 2025. Every 5 years. Epic was launched in 2010.
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Caution: If there are more than one NCL ships departing from same port/terminal (or 2 terminals next to one other), like New York MCT or Miami, it would be better to print your tags in colour since the ship has its own colour and would help the porters direct the bags to correct ship.
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NCL Viva Not Getting Good Reviews?
bluesea777 replied to ZsaZsa2019's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Not quite. Viva TA (Libson to Miami) in Nov 2023 was our 30th NCL cruise but first new prima class ship. Suffice to say we will not go on a prima class ship again. We will return to any of the older NCL ships but not on Prima or Viva. We still enjoyed the cruise but ..... prefer the other ships. We have been on all NCL ships except the Sky and Prima. -
NCL Spirit Electrical Outlet Questions
bluesea777 replied to Rick&Jeannie's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Okay, we’ve been on the Spirit twice post-drydock refurbishment … there are no power outlets beside (or behind) the beds in either balcony or oceanview rooms … so my simple 15ft extension cord comes in handy. -
Yeppers, and we live in Bermuda!! The Caribbean ports that NCL cruise to are about 10 deg F hotter than Bermuda in the summer months. Also most of the USA are already warm/hot during the summer months too. That’s why cruising to the Caribbean is less appealing than to Bermuda & the Maritimes. Caribbean go 10 deg F lower during the winter months so that’s why the winter Caribbean cruising is more popular! 15-20 deg F lower than Bermuda (in winter) so that’s why we’d rather go to Caribbean in the winter time than in the summer. It was the Epic’s inaugural Caribbean in 2010 and that happened during the summer months.
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Sept & Oct are prime months for "Fall season" cruises to NE England and Canada. Cruises from NYC/Boston go to Bermuda weekly from April to Nov but they take a few weeks break in late Sept/Oct to go to NE England & Canada. One year we went on a Caribbean cruise in late Aug/early Sept and it was so damn hot that we vowed never to do any Caribbean cruises during the summer months.
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Bring a 15 ft simple extension cord. Most ships do not have power point beside bed and it’s on the other side of room at desk.
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MITSUGIRLY's ENCORE pictorial and extensive REVIEW
bluesea777 replied to mitsugirly's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Dec 2-11 and 11-20, 2024 with overnight in Panama City (at end of 1st leg). Out of Miami, so only one short round trip flight for us, no long hauls this time! It's next on our bucket list, and we get to do the PC crossing twice! And different ports of call on each leg! -
MITSUGIRLY's ENCORE pictorial and extensive REVIEW
bluesea777 replied to mitsugirly's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Great photos always, and welcome back to CC NCL board! I should mention that you have the above 2 restaurants switched around. The top msg #30 is Onda, and the bottom msg #32 is Food Republic. I agree about cruising in December and seeing all the beautiful Xmas decorations on board ... we just booked December 2024 B2B Panama Canal cruises on Gem! -
The Great Escape - a critical review
bluesea777 replied to wilmingtech's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
Nowadays they don’t announce that the cabins are ready until well after 2-3 pm. -
The Great Escape - a critical review
bluesea777 replied to wilmingtech's topic in Norwegian Cruise Line
$3 tip for 5 bags .... sorry but $20 is far better. Hope all your bags did reach to your cabin intact. On several cruises we've received flyers about "missing" bags .... Another tip: do not go to your cabin to drop off your carry-on bags at all - when the main doors are closed, they are closed and out of bound. Sorry, but the room stewards are busy cleaning and the cabin doors are open. The Muster stations are listed on the Freestyle Daily. -
Bring a simple 15 ft extension cord.
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NCL does charter a train that departs from Seward at 6:something in the morning on disembarkation morning and the train goes from next to the ship to Anchorage airport only. Then the same train departs from Anchorage airport at 13:something on embarkation day and returns to Seward. These are the two trains that NCL charters on ships turnaround days. Regular Alaska Railroad trains leave from Anchorage downtown train depot at 6:40 am every morning for Seward, and leave from Seward every evening at 6:something pm to return to Anchorage. The latter offer two options: regular seating and GoldStar Dome service. We did the latter when we took the train down to Seward two days before our cruise in end of May 2023, and it was fantastic.