Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has canceled a fourth sailing of its Norwegian Escape ship after it ran aground in the Dominican Republic last week. The ship, built in 2015 and currently sailing under the Bahamas flag, will be departing from New York Harbor to New England and Canada on October 17, 2023. The current cruise is a 10-day round-trip Mediterranean itinerary from Italy, France, and Spain, starting from €1549 per person.
The Norwegian Escape has previously operated from either Port Canaveral or Miami, sailing to the Caribbean in Spring 2023. As of October 17, 2023, the ship sails from New York Harbor to New England and Canada with routes sailing from the Mediterranean. The current cruise is a 10 night Mediterranean cruise from Barcelona to Trieste, with departure and disembarking ports in Barcelona and Barcelona respectively.
The Norwegian Cruise Line is excited to welcome all guests back on their ships to cruise freely to the places they’ve been dreaming of, regardless of vaccination status. With 28 bars and restaurants onboard, most people will have to sail twice to try out everything. The ship will also sail 7-night Eastern Caribbean itineraries from Miami, Florida, starting in November 2015.
In summary, NCL has canceled a fourth sailing of its Norwegian Escape ship due to a run-aground in the Dominican Republic. Guests can choose an alternate sailing or receive a full refund.
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When I was in the Navy I experienced several accidents on the ships I was sailing that put us out of commission for weeks. It’s possible that damage is worse than originally assumed, plus NCL may have decided to work on other issues that were discovered but not considered important enough at the time to repair. Better to have the ship working at 100% than having other problems crop up by rushing her back into service.
We were on the Escape when it ran aground. NCL engendered a lot of goodwill by refunding that cruise and providing a 100% future cruise credit…only to lose all of that because of a completely botched disembarkation. We were told that disembarkation would start as early as 430am and to have our luggage out by 1am. BUT they didnt tell you WHO was going at 430 and guest services said they had no information as to when we would disembark (!). We also had to take a covid test which they didnt announce until 730pm . Now they had to test over 2400 guests standing in lines for hours in an interior passageway w/o ventilation and w/o masks. We got our test at 11pm. The luggage tags arrived at 2am and got another knock on the door at 330amwith our covid results. We were then notified that we would be disembarked at 815am into the port shopping area. Our flight wasnt to leave until 730 that evening. So get where I’m going with this? No sleep the previous night and naturally the flight was delayed until 9pm and when we got to Orlando at 1130 pm the buses that were supposed to take us to Port Canaveral had left as there was no one from NCL to order them to stay. They didnt get us back to Port Canaveral until 4am. Sorry for the length of the comment.
Jay: you mentioned that RCCL drink package run $70 p/p per day which adds up. NCL drink package is $99 p/p per day so for a 7 day cruise, that comes to $693; NCL at times includes that as a ‘freebie’ BUT you pay 20 % gratuity and is x2 if double occupancy; that comes out to $278 just for gratuities for ‘free drinks’
We were on the NCL Escape sailing that ran aground. The one consistent comment from everyone on board, including my husband and me, is that the crew on that ship is PHENOMENAL! They took care of everyone and never lost their cool, even with some passengers who did. The issue was with how NCL corporate “arranged” flights back to Orlando. The crew on board had no more information than we did. I would sail on the Escape again in a heartbeat because of the staff on board. Kudos to them all!
I wish ncl would tell us what’s going on and not everyone else we are scheduled to sail on the escape April 25th transatlantic 16 day cruise air to come home and post cruise hotel 3time I have booked this it’s not so easy to move things around for this kid of cruise wish they would tell us if we need to switch ships now
I am supposed to sail Apr 9….if they cancel 4 days prior it will be so hectic trying to change flights, hotels and transportation to another port….unless you have plenty of money and don’t have to worry about the expenses. I don’t. I am thinking Tampa might be doable….but everyone saying a free cruise is a good deal…sure, if you have the time and money to go on a second cruise. I just wanna get the one cruise I missed two years ago. I’m dying for a vacation!
In my opinion were NCL really failed in this whole circumstance is the fact that they literally left the passengers in Orlando with no way home. Because all of their flights had to be changed due to the delay of the ship running aground and the cruises timeframe being changes. It’s one thing to have a mishap such as running aground. But NCL company should be professional enough to have made arrangements for all passengers to get home safely without putting that responsibility onto the passengers it is not the passengers fault that the ship ran aground. It should not make a difference whether the passengers booked through NCL or not with their flight arrangements. It is the fact that NCL is the company that messed up in all of this and should be responsible to their passengers for NCL cruise ship Escape running aground..