NCL Breakaway March 3-10 from New Orleans semi-live

[justhappy]

12 minutes ago, cruiseny4life said:

I really wish there was a YAY reaction! Have a wonderful time!!

Thank you, I’m still going to be worried about  Daisy, but we need this break so badly. 
I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to do a live trip report. We do have the unlimited internet package so that’s not a concern, although 

from what @boffoboffo reports, Starlink is not much of an improvement.

[boffoboffo]

Freestyle Daily day 2:

[Qball714]

1 hour ago, adidreh1234 said:

Yup.  We're on the 3/10 sailing.  Where are y'all coming in from?  From where I am, in Charlotte, we're getting tons of rain, hopefully our flight can make it out.  Our back plan is to just hop in a car if the flight is canceled.

We're in Dallas. Driving on Saturday.

[Qball714]

Just now, boffoboffo said:

Freestyle Daily day 2:

Thanks so much for posting! I've seen the dailies on a few recent sailings of this cruise and I think this is the first time I've seen the Motown tribute.

 

Also, saw you went to Moderno last night. Are you planning any other specialty dining?

Thanks and happy cruising!

[Qball714]

5 hours ago, boffoboffo said:

Went to Moderno last night. Not many people there, so it was nice. 

Meat menu. I took meat pictures, but one piece of meat on the plate at a time just doesn’t look impressive. 

A proper trip to the salad bar at a Brazilian steakhouse. 

Tres Leches cake for desert and the chocolate ice cream our waiter offered to go downstairs and get special for my wife. A cruise hero already. 

Stopped to get our gold pin. Since we got bonus points on two of our previous cruises were already gold after only three. 
Some buffet art. 

haha--love the salad bar plate. Only a rookie eats from the salad bar at a Brazilian steakhouse!

[boffoboffo]

Internet seems to be better at the moment so I’ll try some quick mass posting. Oddly our excursion tickets and Latitudes reward perks weren’t in our room yesterday, but they arrived today. 
 

Breakfast was at O’Sheehan’s this morning. Busy but not too bad. 

Fruit plate. 

English breakfast. 

Seas aren’t too rough but you can feel it rocking every now and then. Top couple decks are closed due to the wind. 
 

Came back to our room after breakfast and ended up dozing off for a bit. I think the three days on the road has worn us out. 

[boffoboffo]

We’re going to try the American Diner for lunch but it was a 25 minute wait, so we changed our mind and went to Taste instead. Not very busy there at all. 

Loaded baked potato. 

Tortilla bowl. 

Cheesecake. 

[boffoboffo]

4 hours ago, dominicr said:

Following along.   We are on this cruise next week.  
 

if you get a chance can you take a few casino pictures to show table limits?  Curious to know those to figure out how much cash to bring.

I’ll see what I can do. 

7 minutes ago, Qball714 said:

Thanks so much for posting! I've seen the dailies on a few recent sailings of this cruise and I think this is the first time I've seen the Motown tribute.

 

Also, saw you went to Moderno last night. Are you planning any other specialty dining?

Thanks and happy cruising!

No more speciality dining. I’ll take what’s included but no desire to pay for more. We’re always satisfied with the included offerings. No issues with any of the food yet this cruise. 

[Qball714]

Wow--closed bc of wind? Must be bad. Took a look at weather maps and then plotted your current location. As you can see, clear of the weather, but not of the wind!

[dominicr]

6 minutes ago, boffoboffo said:

I’ll see what I can do. 

No more speciality dining. I’ll take what’s included but no desire to pay for more. We’re always satisfied with the included offerings. No issues with any of the food yet this cruise. 

Thanks.  Much appreciated 

[corley05]

2 hours ago, Qball714 said:

Excellent. So it looks like we have this cruise next week with:

 

@slavens_09 @aggie182 @dominicr @Qball714

 

Anyone else?

 

Interested to see how it goes next week. Looks like the cruise is completely sold out. 😬

 

We are sailing on 3/10 too.  Our family of 4 (2 adults 2 teens) and friends (2 adults to 2 teens).  Lots of families with kids on this sailing.  We have done a similar itinerary on this ship from NOLA before, over a holiday.  So we expect it to be really busy. 

[Qball714]

5 minutes ago, corley05 said:

We are sailing on 3/10 too.  Our family of 4 (2 adults 2 teens) and friends (2 adults to 2 teens).  Lots of families with kids on this sailing.  We have done a similar itinerary on this ship from NOLA before, over a holiday.  So we expect it to be really busy. 

Awesome. And yes, Spring Break all across Dallas (certainly why we're going with our teen and pre-teen). We're part of a group of 45 from our church--all families with kids. Use the pool in the mornings! 🙂

[boffoboffo]

2 hours ago, dominicr said:

Thanks.  Much appreciated 

Didn’t take pictures but did a quick walk through. Looks like most tables were $10 minimum except Mississippi Stud at $5 and roulette at $2. Maximums were either $1000 or $2500. 

[icft]

8 hours ago, boffoboffo said:

Anyone who thought Starlink would be a major improvement for at sea internet I’m not seeing it yet, at least here in the bowels of the ship. Struggling to get pictures posted right now. 

We were on the Breakaway in January and found the internet to be quite bad in our cabin (deck 9 forward balcony) but pretty good in the public areas. Starlink can be blazing fast but it is for naught if the ship's Wi-Fi, that gets the signal to and from Starlink, is slow or doesn't cover where you are.

[dominicr]

39 minutes ago, boffoboffo said:

Didn’t take pictures but did a quick walk through. Looks like most tables were $10 minimum except Mississippi Stud at $5 and roulette at $2. Maximums were either $1000 or $2500. 

Awesome thank you.   Was hoping 10 minimums and not 25

[boffoboffo]

2 hours ago, icft said:

We were on the Breakaway in January and found the internet to be quite bad in our cabin (deck 9 forward balcony) but pretty good in the public areas. Starlink can be blazing fast but it is for naught if the ship's Wi-Fi, that gets the signal to and from Starlink, is slow or doesn't cover where you are.

It works no problem at all when posting all text like this. When trying to upload photos once or twice it’s been fast but most of the time it struggles with a 3MB image. 

[boffoboffo]

Sorry for sideways pictures but that’s how they showed up and I’m trying to post quick while the internet is cooperating. 
 

Freestyle Daily day 3:

[boffoboffo]

Spent some time walking the waterfront this afternoon before finding a quiet spot outside Cagney/Moderno/Prime Meridian an hour before they opened. 

I assume no live/semi-live is official until it has this picture. 

Our quiet place. 

Found a duck. 

[boffoboffo]

O’Sheehan’s for supper. Was about a 5 minute wait. 

Caeser Salad. 

Pretzel bites. 

Nachos. 

Raspberry Swirl brownie cheesecake. 

[justhappy]

26 minutes ago, boffoboffo said:

Sorry for sideways pictures but that’s how they showed up and I’m trying to post quick while the internet is cooperating. 
 

Freestyle Daily day 3:

Thank you so much for posting these!

[boffoboffo]

I don’t think I mentioned it but our email came last night to let us know that we wouldn’t be getting a cabin upgrade.

 

Just as none of our Latitudes stuff was waiting for us when we got into our cabin yesterday, our shareholder OBC wasn’t on our account either. Also just like how the Latitudes stuff showed up in our cabin today, our $100 OBC showed up today as well. 
 

I know. We should have stormed down to customer service at 4pm yesterday and cause a fuss complaining about how we didn’t have all these things. Then complain that there was a line and we had to wait and declare this to be the worst cruise ever. Then I’d be acting like a proper internet review writer.

 

Walked the nearly empty Waterfront after supper and now in for the night pretty early. Cozumel at 8am tomorrow will come fast. 

[boffoboffo]

8am comes even faster when you forget to put your clock ahead an hour before going to bed. Set the alarm early enough that it didn’t really matter. 
 

Buffet for breakfast. Not overly crowded but that was one crunchy pancake. 

Breakfast with a view. 

Pulling into port with the Carnival Magic. 

MSC Divina at the other port. 

The Enchantment of the Seas beat us here. 

A crowded port gets more crowded when two ships got here on top of each other. 

[boffoboffo]

Made it to the taxi stop before the crowd got there so we got one immediately upon getting there. 5 minute drive to Chankanaab Park and in the park shortly after 9. Had the park pretty much to ourselves for an hour before all those cruise ship tourists showed up. My wife is currently in the water with a manatee and I’m taking advantage of reliable wifi.

 

[cruiseny4life]

Get your you know what in the water!! We can wait til you're back to enjoy your trip! 

 

Thanks for the photos! 

[slavens_09]

21 hours ago, adidreh1234 said:

Yup.  We're on the 3/10 sailing.  Where are y'all coming in from?  From where I am, in Charlotte, we're getting tons of rain, hopefully our flight can make it out.  Our back plan is to just hop in a car if the flight is canceled.

Flying in from Kansas City.