Norwegian Getaway Review

3rd Time on the Getaway

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heythereyou
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Sep 2016
Cabin: Inside Stateroom

This was our 3rd time sailing on NCL Getaway. We booked this cruise last minute because of the great price, And was going to one of our favorite ports Roatan. We booked a ship excursion going to Maya Cay. We love going there! They pick us up right outside our ship and take us by boat over to the island that you can see. This island is a tropical paradise! We Love to snorkel and there is a beautiful reef right off the long beach pier there. I will write more about this wonderful place at the shore excursion spot and go back to the review of the ship. Once on board we always go to the dinning room for Lunch. Is so nice after all the hectic of driving into Miami and all the other boarding day hectic to just sit in a quiet dining room and get waited on.Food is always excellent and staff are so nice. We actually had cruise staff that actually remembered us from sailing before. Which always surprises me when that happens. They have 1000's of people boarding weekly how can they remember us and say I remember you , welcome back!

NCL has great entertainment. LOVE the million dollar quartet. is a show not to miss! We didn't make reservations for any of the comedian shows but was able to get into all shows and even the late night one in the standby line and all were very good, We ate twice in La Bistro. Is always wonderful. Most other nights we ate in Savor, the waiters and especially the maître D were all very nice. We ate in tropicana once and was also very good.Had a wonderful waitress Madonna.. We ate in the buffet on seafood night. and the line went odd. We got our shrimp etc and then the line was coming at us from the other direction so had to walk half way around the dinning room to get in line to get the rest of our food. We also ate once for lunch at O Sheehans but was outside over looking the lower deck watching the officer talk and waiting for deal or no deal show. was taking quite long time to get our food and our waiter came with our slip in hand and asked did we ever get our food? Thought quite odd question coming from our waiter, we told him No. and still no food and then a Maitre D came by asking how is everything We told him about our long wait and He made sure we had our food quite quickly.

We enjoy playing trivia etc, always something to do on the ship or if you just want a quiet spot to take a snooze. We love cruising and love NCL freestyle Don't have to eat at certain time and free to dress up or not.

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Inside Stateroom

Cabin IX

We booked IX We ended up with a room with 2 beds on the wall along with the 2 beds pushed together to make a queen. Which makes it difficult to get into the bed so we asked for our beds to be separated, Which made for much easier entrance and more spacious room. much easier to put luggage under the bed also. The room has so drawers. Which we knew from our first time on the ship. So purchased these folding storage boxes at Dollar tree which are excellent to put socks, underwear etc in and keep on top shelve in the closet. They fold up and weight almost nothing. And quite a deal for a $1. I do like the storage hassock something the NCL Escape did not have.. it does have a hassock to sit on but does not open for storage like the Getaway does.Our inside room on NCL Escape had no drawers either .

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