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Thanks for posting all of this. Great to see Shailendra Sawant is now a GM. Cruised with him as F&B Director many times on the Breakaway. 

@SGCruiser2013 That BTS tour sounds great, especially the visit to the bridge. You mentioned the Captain spent time with you. Do you happen to know his name?

You should start this under Norwegian Cruise Line Roll Calls and then under Norwegian Spirit Roll Calls. Check to see if there already is an entry for your cruise before starting a new one. 

2 hours ago, PistolPete13 said:

Just watched the Carnival something pull out while I was having dinner.  The ship is huge and I believe it’s their newest ship. 
 

 

Hey @PistolPete13.  I am enjoying your reports, as usual.  The Carnival ship was the Carnival Celebration.   Her maiden voyage was this past November 6.  So, she is, as you thought, the newest ship in the fleet.  She is also the largest, at approximately 183K Gross Register Tons.  By comparison, the Getaway is around 145K GRTs.

Enjoy the rest of your trip.  And if you go to Maho Beach tomorrow, don't forget to duck.  

Looking forward to your reports @PistolPete13  

Nancy and I finished up 17 days onboard last Saturday. My one piece of advice to you is to make sure you pull or push your door shut all the way until it clicks. Our door needed a little extra force to close, and one night we did not pull it all the way, and we ended up with a highly inebriated passenger standing in our bedroom at 4:50AM.

Have a great time.  

Norwegian Getaway 2/1/23 cruise.  Originally 2 days in Bermuda, now 6 hours at night in Nassau.

Captain - Konstantinos Gkokas

Staff Captain - Luksa Stanisic

Chief Engineer - Vasileios Nousis

General Manager - Mario Markovic

Asst General Manager - Goran Rorbek

Food and Beverage Director - Metin Camurlu

Restaurant Manager - Ivan Volek

Executive Chef - Angelito Santos

Beverage Manager - Dindo Ramos

Cruise Director - Alvin Oliva

Guest Service Manager - Bon Villaluz

Executive Housekeeper - Jose Omier

CruiseNext Manager - Taarun Shorey

Concierge - Huberth Perry

Looking forward to cruising with Alvin again next week. The last time we cruised with him, October 2021 on the Breakaway, I showed him a picture I took of him with us on the BA in 2014. Suffice to say, he and I have both put on a few pounds since. 😉

@mking8288 thanks for these pictures. Looks like Dindo is there as the beverage manager. And recognize Mario, as always, wearing his sweater. Looking forward to seeing the name card. 

4 minutes ago, pookel said:

We made it to GSC today! No problems. Came over on the first tender and going back to the ship around 2:20. Lovely weather, beautiful sand, free drinks, buffet was passable. The sun is brutal so bring plenty of sunscreen. If you stay still in the water you'll see some fish. Not crowded at all - we didn't have trouble even getting chairs in the shade. The Zipline was pretty impressive looking but we didn't try it. Saw the Wonder of the Seas next door at Coco Cay plus a smaller Royal Caribbean ship I couldn't identify. They have a hot air balloon over there!

 

Props to the skinny blond girl in the hula hoop contest who could have kept going forever and they had to cut her off - she was amazing.

 

Sorry if this is a bit muddled, I've been swimming all day and I've never been this tired *ever*.  Note if you have a cane or mobility issues that loose sand is hard to walk in. We saw some other folks with canes that had end caps made for soft surfaces, with the four rubber pieces instead of just one - that looked like it would work better than my husband's basic cane. 

Glad you were able to make it to GSC and that you enjoyed it so much. That smaller RC ship, by the way, is the Freedom of the Seas, maiden voyage in 2006. 

2 hours ago, trbarton said:

Does anyone who the Captain & Staff Captain are?

 

Tom 

Go to the roll call for the January 20 cruise. On post 417, @JIMESOPUSposted pictures of the senior officer board. The Captain is Konstantinos Gkokas and the Staff Captain is Luksa Stanisic (spelling may be slightly off, the pictures got a little blurry when I tried to zoom in). 

3 hours ago, cementhands said:

Cruise director on Getaway? 🚢
Activities staff folks? 🕺💃🏽🪩

Those guys are key to my cruise experience with dancing opportunities and theme parties! Going back onboard soooooooon! Like 2 days.

The Cruise Director is Alvin Oliva, just back from vacation. Don’t know about the rest of his team. We board the day you disembark. 

Looking forward to your always interesting reports. Nancy and I board the day you disembark. We’ll be doing Bermuda and then the Caribbean back to back. 

Great pictures. That’s the Wonder of the Seas off your port side, the Carnival Celebration off your starboard side and the Disney Fantasy on the other side of her. 

1 hour ago, Cruising Lynne said:

From the Getaway day one Freestyle Daily posted on page six, I just noticed that there is a late night snack from 11 pm to 1 am. Looks like they changed the time.

 

I think it used to be from approx. 9:30 until 11 or 11:30. 

 

Unfortunately I think that late night snack was only because it was New Year’s Eve. It was gone from the schedule by the next night. 

1 minute ago, cruiseny4life said:

I'll be updating throughout the cruise, as data allows. I posted days 1 and 2 so far. I hope they helped!

Thank you. Much appreciated. If, at the Meet and Greet, they gave you a card with the names of the Hotel Department officers, would you please post that as well?  Thanks and enjoy the rest of your cruise. 

Thanks for posting the pictures of the senior officers. I am always interested in seeing who is in charge, and I recognize several of them from our previous cruises. Special congratulations to Captain Kevin, after sailing with him many times as Staff Captain. 

5 hours ago, MsRickki said:

Quick question as I am sailing NCL soon for the first time.  What do the symbols mean next to each entree? 

Go all the way down to the bottom of the menus and you will see. One is for vegetarian, one is for gluten-free and one is for spicy. 

Enjoying your reports this week very much. I know you went back an hour last night when you left Halifax. I am guessing you will need to go back another hour tonight for the end of Daylight Saving Time. Unless you went back 2 hours last night. 

Will look forward to your reports as we are doing the same itinerary on February 6th.  Is there any way to modify the title of the thread to say 2023?

Hey @PistolPete13  I was enjoying your pictures and commentary. I hope the only reason you have not posted in almost 24 hours is that you are too busy having a good time. 

32 minutes ago, JIMESOPUS said:

No excursion tomorrow, guess we'll have are walking shoes.

 

Here is something that has never happen before, our excursion today was never discounted, latitudes perk. Inquiring at the desk tonight they said we had to ask for it, never had to before?

That’s very interesting because we have to ask for it every time. Never gets applied automatically, whether we book online, via the app, via the kiosk, etc. 

We cruised many times with Chief Engineer Anders Nadal on the Breakaway. He would say that when he was onboard, that was the only time the Breakaway would have a Norwegian crew member. 

On 9/3/2022 at 7:25 AM, kmc86 said:

Anyone have current list for the Joy?

Ask and ye shall receive.  
 

Norwegian Joy - 9/1/22 sailing. 
 

Captain - Hakan Svedung

Staff Captain - Niksa Antic

Chief Engineer - Ioannis Karloutsos

General Manager - Rohinton (Ron) Mottahed
Assistant General Manager - Fabrice DeCotte 

Food and Beverage Director Sr. - Ricardo Pinheiro 

Assistant Food and Beverage Director - Elena Bodi 

Restaurant Manager - Ana Maria Malata 

Beverage Manager - Jojo Chen 

Executive Chef - Godfrey Fernandez 

Cruise Director - Beancka Alexander 

Guest Service Manager - Giannina Pedraza Erroch 

Executive Housekeeper - Anton Oborovich 

Cruise Next Manager - Sammie-Joe Davidson 

Concierge - David Newball 

8 hours ago, tigerfan75 said:

Thank You for sharing.  I am curious as to the protocol.

Were you under any mask restrictions when released from the 5-day isolation?

Were you tested at the end of the 5-day isolation?

If you had been tested positive, would you have been isolated another 5-days?

THANKS for any insight. 

I was kind of surprised when we were released by the infectious disease officer that there was no discussion of restrictions of any kind. My wife and I did wear masks for the rest of the cruise, which was only about 18 hours. 
 

Our isolation officially ended Monday afternoon. We had been tested Sunday afternoon and again Monday morning - both negative. 
 

If we had tested positive either time, I had already been assured we would be disembarking the ship Tuesday morning in NY. Perhaps with more restrictions than we had, which was none. 

22 minutes ago, 1985rz1 said:

Did Oceania provide the Paxlovid?

Yes. At $800 for each of us. The other medical treatment (tests, phone calls, room visits) was complimentary.