{"id":22931,"date":"2015-01-09T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=22931"},"modified":"2015-01-09T01:00:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:00:54","slug":"friday-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22931","title":{"rendered":"New in 2015 \u2014 Norwegian Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\" style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><b style=\"font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;\">Last in a series about new ships<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Ambitious to a fault, Norwegian launches a new class of ship with this &mdash; Breakaway Plus. Fortunately, the ships won&rsquo;t be named for the class (a ship called Breakaway Plus?), and the <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escape.ncl.com\/\"><i>Escape<\/i><\/a><i> came from passengers who participated in a naming contest. After a three-year building sabbatical, Norwegian launched a building boom that will result in six new ships from 2013 to 2019.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Launch date:<\/b> October 29<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Capacity:<\/b> 4,200<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Sister ships:<\/b> 1st in Breakaway Plus Class<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Maiden voyage:<\/b> A 10-day inaugural Atlantic crossing from Southampton<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Home port:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/\">Miami<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Ships then in <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/\"><b>Norwegian<\/b><\/a><b> fleet:<\/b> 14<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Interesting:<\/b> <\/span>With 4,200 passengers the Escape becomes Norwegian&rsquo;s largest ship, carrying 100 more passengers and 8,000 more pounds than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/ship\/epic\">Epic<\/a> &mdash; it&rsquo;s also longer by 17 feet. It features one more deck than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakaway.ncl.com\/\">Norwegian Breakaway<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ncl.com\/cruise-ship\/getaway\/overview\">Norwegian Getaway<\/a>, which make up the popular Breakaway Class, and like them includes an outdoor dining and drinking space that&rsquo;s part of the promenade and called <i>The Waterfront<\/i>. New is a namesake of the famous Miami bar, <i>Tobacco Road<\/i>, along with the hull painting, this one by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guyharvey.com\/\">Guy Harvey<\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;\"><em style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>Today at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsandbows.com\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><em style=\"font-size: 12.222222328186px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"><strong>All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12028\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" title=\"DailyDeal-2\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ships\/class\/ship\/home.do;jsessionid=0000e6-ggTfQ6kfyclDTOkqf1pA:12hdhuaq2?br=R&amp;shipClassCode=VI&amp;shipCode=EN\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas<\/a><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">3 nights<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">January 30, 2015<\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portcanaveral.com\/cruising\/cruising.php\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Port Canaveral<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(return):&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nassauparadiseisland.com\/\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Nassau<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/findacruise\/ports\/group\/home.do?portCode=CCA\" style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">CocoCay<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333339691162px; line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: center;\">Inside: $169<\/span><br \/>\n\t<strong style=\"line-height: 20.7999992370605px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\">Cost per day: $56<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/\">www.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last in a series about new ships Ambitious to a fault, Norwegian launches a new class of ship with this &mdash; Breakaway Plus. Fortunately, the ships won&rsquo;t be named for the class (a ship called Breakaway Plus?), and the Escape came from passengers who participated in a naming contest. After a three-year building sabbatical, Norwegian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=22931\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New in 2015 \u2014 Norwegian Escape<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[1551,912,72,819,86,35,1577,151,126,721,1139,1553,722,26,27],"class_list":["post-22931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-breakaway-plus","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-guy-harvey","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-breakaway","tag-norwegian-epic","tag-norwegian-escape","tag-norwegian-getaway","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}