2016 on the Norwegian Breakaway
On November 12, 2016, I took a bus from Toronto to New York City, with the aid of a travel agency, to catch a relaxing 6-day cruise on the Norwegian Breakaway:
Itinerary
- 2016-11-12
- Bus ride from Toronto to somewhere in New Jersey
- overnight hotel stay before going to sail-away port
- Bus ride from Toronto to somewhere in New Jersey
- 2016-11-13
- 🇺🇸 Norwegian Breakaway boarding at Pier 92 in Manhattan
- 2016-11-14
- 🌊 Sea day on the Atlantic Ocean
- 2016-11-15
- 🇺🇸 USA (Florida - Port Canaveral)
- a rather underdeveloped port at the time
- 🇺🇸 USA (Florida - Port Canaveral)
- 2016-11-16
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas (Nassau)
- the highlight of the trip
- new country
- tropical weather in November
- the highlight of the trip
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas (Nassau)
- 2016-11-17
- 🌊 Sea day on the Atlantic Ocean
- original call to Great Stirrup Cay cancelled
- NCL's private island was damaged to a hurricane that year
- original call to Great Stirrup Cay cancelled
- 🌊 Sea day on the Atlantic Ocean
- 2016-11-18
- 🌊 Sea day on the Atlantic Ocean
- 2016-11-19
- 🇺🇸 Norwegian Breakaway disembarkment
- bus ride home to Toronto
Reflection
This was only my second lifetime ocean cruise and the first since 2003. (I did go on a river cruise in China in 2013).
The Norwegian Breakaway felt almost disappointing compared to the 2003 cruise aboard the Navigator of the Seas with Royal Caribbean. My earlier cruise experience had a larger (and more feature-filled) ship that was newer at the time. This second cruise felt almost "bland" but I had no real complaints. Everything worked properly but it was just "not as interesting".
I could probably blame the "ship fatigue" on the many days at sea (at least 4 total sea days) with too few ports-of-call.