NCL Excape dry dock - dates aren’t aligned

[marktwothousand]

All news on excape dry dock I can find says the ship is closing after sept 8, but there’s a cruise I’m looking at from sept 2-12 from Rome and it’s still showing as going, what gives. Would NCL really keep that cruise listed until the last minute and cancel knowing there’s a dry dock? This is totally confusing. Anyone heard goss on what’s happening?

[Encore37]

Escape.

[marktwothousand]

Sorry. My southern Canadian drawl got in the way 🙂

[marktwothousand]

Does anyone think this cruise will be canceled? Serious question. Big money at stake here for flights 

[gotscrapz]

I'm on this cruise. Per NCL it's not canceled. It's the last one before dry dock. I guess anything could happen tho lol!

we've already spent the money so I hope NCL is correct. I think it would have been canceled already when the others were canceled. But won't really know until we sail I guess.

Edited July 18, 2022 by gotscrapz

[chengkp75]

10 hours ago, marktwothousand said:

All news on excape dry dock I can find says the ship is closing after sept 8, but there’s a cruise I’m looking at from sept 2-12 from Rome and it’s still showing as going, what gives. Would NCL really keep that cruise listed until the last minute and cancel knowing there’s a dry dock? This is totally confusing. Anyone heard goss on what’s happening?

I suspect that this is an interporting cruise, with Rome and Barcelona as home ports.  Your cruise starts on 9/2, and a Barcelona one likely starts on 9/7 or 9/8, and that is the last date able to book.  Their cruise will likely end 5-6 days after yours in Barcelona, and the ship then going to drydock in Cadiz (location speculative on my part).

[hallux]

You'll find discussion of that sailing in this previous thread - 

 

[marktwothousand]

15 hours ago, chengkp75 said:

I suspect that this is an interporting cruise, with Rome and Barcelona as home ports.  Your cruise starts on 9/2, and a Barcelona one likely starts on 9/7 or 9/8, and that is the last date able to book.  Their cruise will likely end 5-6 days after yours in Barcelona, and the ship then going to drydock in Cadiz (location speculative on my part).

Interporting? Lol. Talk about cruise jargon. Never heard that one before. 

[chengkp75]

7 hours ago, marktwothousand said:

Interporting? Lol. Talk about cruise jargon. Never heard that one before. 

Quite common on European cruises, where there are two homeports, and the cruises overlap each other.