Booked through a casino corporation for our third NCL cruise and it appears the cruise line is going downhill consistently. In fact the casino is the only facility/attraction/entertainment on board we can recommend. The entertainment is tedious, repetitious, and well below reasonable standards. Sing, dance, sing, dance,; rinse and repeat. In the past other ships we have been on have had decent bands throughout the ship during both the evening and night hours, the NCL Escape had as far as we could tell, two bands and one singer who sang in spanish to recorded music and all three were marginal. Are there was also a DJ in the Skyliners bar who played nothing but rap music at ear splitting volume attracting a certain clientele and behavior we were uncomfortable with. We paid an additional fee to eat six nights in specialty restaurants but honestly we can only say one of those meals was what we would call good the rest were simply average and the one night we spent in the complementary restaurant was simply terrible both in terms of the food and the service. We were unable to visit one port because the winds were too high for the tenders and were forced to spend another boring day at sea. We understand you can’t control the wind but certainly you can be prepared to offer additional on board activities and make sure that people know about those activities; apparently NCL does not agree because that was a completely wasted day. How hard is it to prepare for an almost certain eventuality like a closed port? This is a huge company with a large number of chips, they should have done a better job and been better prepared. The staff was generally friendly but the language differences were almost insurmountable in many cases, especially with those in guest service positions which is baffling. Shore excursions were pretty average in both selection and choice. Next time we'll look beyond NCL and urge you to as well.