Y'all are so calm when all things are going wrong! I love that you make the most of it all! Also those foot washes/wash stations getting onto the tenders!! Love it!
Wow Dee & Jay thank you so much for this adventure on Norwegian Escape! I hate you guys had a few bumps in the road with tendering in Great Stirrip Cay. But you guys had a great day! Go Port seems so easy to use!
I'm caught UP!! Woot woot!! So glad you finally got to Great Stirrup Cay! How fun to see the sunken sculptures in the water there! Cagney's did look like a LOAD of food, for sure! Thanks for bringing us along on your adventure!
Glad you four had a wonderful cruise and a safe trip home. Those dancing with Dee lessons paid off, like the socks Jay before dinner, could not make out the design. No drinking on the islands you two!
Aw! The adventures is over! Just watched you on your live. Crazy how long it took to get off the ship! Love seeing Dee laughing so hard in the water with her two drinks three fingers! Haha! Love you both!
Thanks Jay & Dee, really enjoyed the series. As I mentioned previously I am due on NCL in 2024 and I am already salivating at all that delicious food!. I have a short 4 night cruise in October to Amsterdam with the poshies on Cunard. I wonder if I can pursued any one into a bar crawl around the red light district haha. Looking forward to the Celebrity Summit vlogs now! Stay safe x
We always consider GSC a sea day-- every winter sailing we have taken there has tender issues. We just plan to not get off. Wish they would invest in a pier. You all had great attitudes though and definitely give a realistic and positive perspective!
Agreed, I don’t understand why they don’t have a pier built! Only time I was ever scheduled to go to GSC is was canceled due to rough seas. Very disappointing, but they did refund a portion of the cruise fare so that was nice.
I adore it when Dee has a laughing fit like in the water on this vlog!! And Jay...I'm pretty good..I'm getting to know your In the Shower with Jay ratings...I guessed 7.5! Not bad, huh?!
Great video! Can’t wait to go back to Great Stirrup Cay in May! (We’ve been there once a few years ago) Love NCL. Book a Mexico trip on NCL with Harvest Caye on the itinerary, I loved it there. Wished we could have had 2 days there to see everything.
I was on this sailing and enjoyed reliving the cruise with this series. I heard and saw video of the very last tender back from GSC and it was quite traumatic! Scary stuff. Glad I left a little early. But you two are great. I love that you're so chill and positive if when things don't go smoothly.
Hi Guys, do you get a drink and dining package for each of you on every cruise or do you pay as you go? I am really enjoying your videos and look forward to new ones as they come. Keep up the good work, stay safe and HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS 🤶 🇨🇦
We typically don’t purchase a drink package, no. With Norwegian, it’s basically built in and you only have to pay the gratuities, so we kept that one, hah. But I’d say 95% of the time, we don’t have a drink package. :P
Go Port? We are going on same tour in January '24 and I have been in contact with Go Port and they are telling me they are now exclusively Carnival. Is this a new development? Will they also list Norwegian later this Spring/Summer? They sure are not the friendliest group to try to converse with.
They recently changed to only service Mardi Gras, Wonder Of The Seas, and Disney Wish due to possible logistical struggles, but since then they've narrowed that down to one ship, which is Mardi Gras. I don't believe they'll be adding any other ships to the roster in the near future, sadly... unless you're flying in, then they service a lot more ships. For parking, it's just Mardi Gras for the foreseeable future!!
NCL Escape was the only cruise I have been on but had a balcany room. My favorite drink was the fresh made raspberry mojitos. Do they still have the margaritaville on the ship cause I did not see it.
It’s been forever since we’ve been to Great Stirrup Cay, but I don’t remember any tender issues. Looks like you turned lemons into lemonade. It is the place where I got sun poisoning though.
They always offer accessible tender options, but depending on what level you sit on, you might have 10-12 or so steps on the tender vessel to get from deck to deck.
I can't understand why if Norwegian bought the island back in 77 why they are still using tenders to take passengers to their own private island?? To me it doesn't make sense!
They took the excursion folks over first, so they didn’t miss anything. It seemed to be all the non excursion folks that had to wait. But they would definitely have to refund the excursion if they caused you to miss it, heck yeah!!
So, so happy to see the return of Ricky & Laura! Thanks for yet another great series!! Gonna go binge Dancer Quest's perspective to see what all they got up to. 🙂 I'm thinking the tender nightmare was because yours was the Escape's first sailing since the shutdown, so you were all guinea pigs. My sailing just two weeks later was totally different: we were masked during the tender process & packed in like sardines, like normal. For tendering, it was pretty standard. Please don't think this experience is how NCL always does it. 👍🏻I'm sure your patience was much appreciated!! Rock on! 🤘
You said that you like all cruise lines, but you cruise Carnival the most because they treat you like family. Why haven't you been traveling Carnival lately (for your standards)?
Now that we’ve reached the highest loyalty level with Carnival, we’ve enjoyed branching out to other cruise lines. We’ve done seven Carnival cruises in the past six months, so about 50% Carnival for the year, which I didn’t think was too bad!! :P
My one and only Norwegian cruise, ironically on the Escape, was a tender nightmare. On two separate occasions passengers were put in the lifeboats through a long, very slow process. We sat off dock in Cozumel in sweltering heat in these little ovens waiting to disembark for 45 minutes. The heat was so intense people were screaming at the staff to open the doors so we could cool off. No one seemed to know how to navigate the vessels and there were no apologies for the awful experience. Passengers were never informed prior to cruising about two ports that required tendering. They need to get their act together.
What are the two ports? Cozumel actually has docks, unless there are too many ships in town for the day. Are you referring to Cozumel and Harvest Caye?
@@donwooden6358 Yes. Too many ships were in the harbor including one very large RCL ship. We couldn't get off our tenders because there were too many people crowded on the dock from the RCL ship. I also think a dock had been damaged by another cruise ship and was under repair, but Norwegian never informed us that there would be any tenders. I don't know what the issue was at Harvest Caye.
Can I request a video for In the Shower with Jay? Maybe a short one where you highlight the top 3 & bottom 3 ranked showers. I'm curious what those would be.
Alright I know y’all aren’t ones to get mad so I’ll be mad for u. If I could talk to them right now I would get something lol.😡. Social distancing protocols when they running around not requiring masks and self serve buffet!!! Ewww🤬. Ok I’m good not. Getting on valor in the morning for a short pre Christmas vaca. Safe travels y’all.
y'all...why are you so horridly biased to Carnival and Royal?...you took a Norwegian cruise with "who are those people"?? the most generic and boring of cruisers possible...and you let them dictate your cruise!?? it was hard to watch...Norwegian is THE best with regards to safety right now. They have the best perks to booking of any line and you gave them a half-shake at best. Stop. Give a full and fair review or don't do one. Also, you were WAY more critical of Norwegian on this cruise for issues that have happened many times on your other Carnival and Royal cruises...why? You want specific examples, 'm happy to oblige. It was shameful for a channel I admire as much as yours. Please don't repeat this type of biased content in the future.
We had a great cruise overall and will definitely cruise NCL again. Our goal has always been to experience and simply show our vacation in an honest fashion, no matter what cruise line or ship we’re sailing. This cruise had the most bumps and issues we’ve ever experienced on a single cruise, and we obviously had to tell it like it is. We did make the choice to cut out one or two bumps because they were immediately resolved, but anything that was a lingering or blatant or unresolved communication error we felt had to stay in there. But we didn’t let any of it stand in the way of a good time. We’ll definitely be sailing NCL again in the future!!
Y'all are so calm when all things are going wrong! I love that you make the most of it all! Also those foot washes/wash stations getting onto the tenders!! Love it!
Jay's got a great sense of humor. ☺️
Wow Dee & Jay thank you so much for this adventure on Norwegian Escape! I hate you guys had a few bumps in the road with tendering in Great Stirrip Cay. But you guys had a great day! Go Port seems so easy to use!
Thank you so much for taking us along on this beautiful vacation and for all the work that goes into sharing ❤
I always look forward to my morning cups of coffee with all my Christmas decoration lights on and enjoying a wholesome cruise vlog from y’all 😊
I'm caught UP!! Woot woot!! So glad you finally got to Great Stirrup Cay! How fun to see the sunken sculptures in the water there! Cagney's did look like a LOAD of food, for sure! Thanks for bringing us along on your adventure!
Woohoo, you did it! Welcome to the #bottom… for now!! :P
@@parodeejay - I wasn't #bottom for long...editing Jay has passed me up! 😄
love both of dees dresses in this episode
Glad you four had a wonderful cruise and a safe trip home. Those dancing with Dee lessons paid off, like the socks Jay before dinner, could not make out the design. No drinking on the islands you two!
Aw! The adventures is over! Just watched you on your live. Crazy how long it took to get off the ship! Love seeing Dee laughing so hard in the water with her two drinks three fingers! Haha! Love you both!
"Liquor sales are way down" - Harry the Bar Manager
"Get them to delay the tenders" - Steve the Bartender
"Good idea Steve!" - Harry the Bar Manager
Thanks for sharing and including so much detail!
Another masterpiece, thanks again for taking us along.
Drunk Dee!!! ❤️🤣🤘
Thanks Dee and Jay, another great series.
This was a fun cruise!
Saw After Midnight on Broadway and it was terrific. Hopefully, you can catch it another time.
Thanks Jay & Dee, really enjoyed the series. As I mentioned previously I am due on NCL in 2024 and I am already salivating at all that delicious food!. I have a short 4 night cruise in October to Amsterdam with the poshies on Cunard. I wonder if I can pursued any one into a bar crawl around the red light district haha. Looking forward to the Celebrity Summit vlogs now! Stay safe x
You guy were such good sports. I enjoyed watching y'all have so much fun.
Yet ANOTHER great cruise series in the can. ✅
Too much information
Yay! I guessed the shower rating spot on! Highlight of my day…okay that’s sad…signing off now. 😂🤣 Thanks for the great vlog!
End of another great cruise. Thanks for sharing.😎
We always consider GSC a sea day-- every winter sailing we have taken there has tender issues. We just plan to not get off. Wish they would invest in a pier. You all had great attitudes though and definitely give a realistic and positive perspective!
Agreed, I don’t understand why they don’t have a pier built! Only time I was ever scheduled to go to GSC is was canceled due to rough seas. Very disappointing, but they did refund a portion of the cruise fare so that was nice.
Good to know! GSC is a port of call of mine late March on the Escape
Been on 3 NCL ships planned to stop there and 2 were rough seas another was to late and went right to Nassau instead!
My favorite ship
I adore it when Dee has a laughing fit like in the water on this vlog!! And Jay...I'm pretty good..I'm getting to know your In the Shower with Jay ratings...I guessed 7.5! Not bad, huh?!
Great video! Can’t wait to go back to Great Stirrup Cay in May! (We’ve been there once a few years ago) Love NCL. Book a Mexico trip on NCL with Harvest Caye on the itinerary, I loved it there. Wished we could have had 2 days there to see everything.
can you use the beverage package there?also food options available?
Great set of vlogs guys thanks cant wait to see what happends next
I was on this sailing and enjoyed reliving the cruise with this series. I heard and saw video of the very last tender back from GSC and it was quite traumatic! Scary stuff. Glad I left a little early. But you two are great. I love that you're so chill and positive if when things don't go smoothly.
Lol, love it Jay
Great stirred up cay. Lol I love snorkeling there. We are ready to get back there in January. Really enjoy watching.
Heading on this cruise in March. Can't wait!!! Were you cruising at a decreased capacity?
Most everything we’ve sailed right now has been around 50%-70% capacity. Even at that, the atrium area almost always seemed cramped, hah!! :P
Just on HAL, tenders to the private island were anytime since ship was at 50% capacity. Strange as to why it was not like that for you guys. Bummer!
Hi Guys, do you get a drink and dining package for each of you on every cruise or do you pay as you go? I am really enjoying your videos and look forward to new ones as they come. Keep up the good work, stay safe and HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS 🤶 🇨🇦
We typically don’t purchase a drink package, no. With Norwegian, it’s basically built in and you only have to pay the gratuities, so we kept that one, hah. But I’d say 95% of the time, we don’t have a drink package. :P
How frustrating. Things happen but they should at least have kept you all informed along the way.
LOL I think that was Thor since you're on a NORWEGIAN cruise LOLOLOL
Go Port? We are going on same tour in January '24 and I have been in contact with Go Port and they are telling me they are now exclusively Carnival. Is this a new development? Will they also list Norwegian later this Spring/Summer? They sure are not the friendliest group to try to converse with.
They recently changed to only service Mardi Gras, Wonder Of The Seas, and Disney Wish due to possible logistical struggles, but since then they've narrowed that down to one ship, which is Mardi Gras. I don't believe they'll be adding any other ships to the roster in the near future, sadly... unless you're flying in, then they service a lot more ships. For parking, it's just Mardi Gras for the foreseeable future!!
@@parodeejay sad to hear that we agree...... have watched all of your video's of the Escape. Very well done. Thank you.
NCL Escape was the only cruise I have been on but had a balcany room. My favorite drink was the fresh made raspberry mojitos. Do they still have the margaritaville on the ship cause I did not see it.
They don’t. It was replaced, apparently.
When are you guys doing a Disney cruise? I think we and you would really enjoy that.
No plans as of yet!! :P
Dee, what kind of watch (pink) are wearing? I need one! Lol
It’s the basic waterproof model from Walmart, something like $12!! :P
@@parodeejay love it, is there a brand name on it?
It’s been forever since we’ve been to Great Stirrup Cay, but I don’t remember any tender issues. Looks like you turned lemons into lemonade. It is the place where I got sun poisoning though.
How many stairs do you to go down off tender ship?
They always offer accessible tender options, but depending on what level you sit on, you might have 10-12 or so steps on the tender vessel to get from deck to deck.
had you been to great stirrup cay before? or the other ncl private island?
We hadn’t! This was our first time ever sailing Norwegian!! :D
I can't understand why if Norwegian bought the island back in 77 why they are still using tenders to take passengers to their own private island?? To me it doesn't make sense!
The water depth is not deep enough for the ship to get to shore unless a channel was dug and constantly dredged. Not feasible
Harvest Cay is also VERY nice! Awesome beach and a huge pool!!! Don’t hesitate to book an NCL cruise with that on the itinerary!
do you get a refund for your excursions if tender trouble?
They took the excursion folks over first, so they didn’t miss anything. It seemed to be all the non excursion folks that had to wait. But they would definitely have to refund the excursion if they caused you to miss it, heck yeah!!
Never been to a tender port....what happens if you miss your tender time? Do you stay on board?
Nah, you can always wander down after the time you’re called and get in a tender!! :D
So, so happy to see the return of Ricky & Laura! Thanks for yet another great series!! Gonna go binge Dancer Quest's perspective to see what all they got up to. 🙂
I'm thinking the tender nightmare was because yours was the Escape's first sailing since the shutdown, so you were all guinea pigs. My sailing just two weeks later was totally different: we were masked during the tender process & packed in like sardines, like normal. For tendering, it was pretty standard. Please don't think this experience is how NCL always does it. 👍🏻I'm sure your patience was much appreciated!! Rock on! 🤘
Why does it say not to eat scrambled eggs
where did dee get her dress?
How are you guys able to travel so much? You all are living the dream lol keep up the great content!
We’re both able to work from onboard ships, as long as the wifi is favorable. That helps a lot!! :D
You said that you like all cruise lines, but you cruise Carnival the most because they treat you like family. Why haven't you been traveling Carnival lately (for your standards)?
Now that we’ve reached the highest loyalty level with Carnival, we’ve enjoyed branching out to other cruise lines. We’ve done seven Carnival cruises in the past six months, so about 50% Carnival for the year, which I didn’t think was too bad!! :P
Long drive home. Where do you live ?
We’re near Virginia Beach, so a bit of a haul!! :P
My one and only Norwegian cruise, ironically on the Escape, was a tender nightmare. On two separate occasions passengers were put in the lifeboats through a long, very slow process. We sat off dock in Cozumel in sweltering heat in these little ovens waiting to disembark for 45 minutes. The heat was so intense people were screaming at the staff to open the doors so we could cool off. No one seemed to know how to navigate the vessels and there were no apologies for the awful experience. Passengers were never informed prior to cruising about two ports that required tendering. They need to get their act together.
What are the two ports? Cozumel actually has docks, unless there are too many ships in town for the day. Are you referring to Cozumel and Harvest Caye?
@@donwooden6358 Yes. Too many ships were in the harbor including one very large RCL ship. We couldn't get off our tenders because there were too many people crowded on the dock from the RCL ship. I also think a dock had been damaged by another cruise ship and was under repair, but Norwegian never informed us that there would be any tenders. I don't know what the issue was at Harvest Caye.
Can I request a video for In the Shower with Jay? Maybe a short one where you highlight the top 3 & bottom 3 ranked showers. I'm curious what those would be.
Cagney’s really lacking in the presentation department!
Why you still wearing shirts in the sea
Sun protection!! :D
Norwegian counting: 1, 2, 3, 4,5,6,8
Alright I know y’all aren’t ones to get mad so I’ll be mad for u. If I could talk to them right now I would get something lol.😡. Social distancing protocols when they running around not requiring masks and self serve buffet!!! Ewww🤬. Ok I’m good not. Getting on valor in the morning for a short pre Christmas vaca. Safe travels y’all.
y'all...why are you so horridly biased to Carnival and Royal?...you took a Norwegian cruise with "who are those people"?? the most generic and boring of cruisers possible...and you let them dictate your cruise!?? it was hard to watch...Norwegian is THE best with regards to safety right now. They have the best perks to booking of any line and you gave them a half-shake at best. Stop. Give a full and fair review or don't do one. Also, you were WAY more critical of Norwegian on this cruise for issues that have happened many times on your other Carnival and Royal cruises...why? You want specific examples, 'm happy to oblige. It was shameful for a channel I admire as much as yours. Please don't repeat this type of biased content in the future.
We had a great cruise overall and will definitely cruise NCL again. Our goal has always been to experience and simply show our vacation in an honest fashion, no matter what cruise line or ship we’re sailing. This cruise had the most bumps and issues we’ve ever experienced on a single cruise, and we obviously had to tell it like it is. We did make the choice to cut out one or two bumps because they were immediately resolved, but anything that was a lingering or blatant or unresolved communication error we felt had to stay in there. But we didn’t let any of it stand in the way of a good time. We’ll definitely be sailing NCL again in the future!!