[Travelandtourism] I did Let's Do Lunch on Norwegian Jewel on May 22, 2010 in Port of NY a Ship Inspection

cheryl echevarria cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
Mon May 24 13:38:18 UTC 2010


This is in response to Veronica, and it has to do with food as well, since 
there was so much to do, I thought I would give you a little in depth about 
it.

Well with Norwegian travel agent are allowed to bring people with them, so 
the Echevarria's made a day out of it. Nelson drive to NY City, which is 
about 45 minutes without traffic and at the time we left was 8am we got 
there around 9.  We are planning to go back to the city on the 12th of June 
to just spend the day.

My daughter Dina to the video, it is definitely okay, not the most 
professional video, but have to remember we were with 50 other travel 
professionals.  I have to also say that only the travel professionals who 
graduate the NCL University Program to which I am got to do this.

New York is a very popular port, because people up here want to cruise and 
not have to fly to Florida they can do it.

Norwegian Cruises go out of Pier 88 which is the corner of 12th Avenue and 
55th Street, and is right next door to the Intrepid Sea-Air Museum.

It was so busy that Nelson had to find parking at on the street parking 
garages which was decent $10 for 12 hours, that is cheap for parking on a 
Saturday Morning in NY City.  But we got there early.  People were going 
through customs from the arrival of the Jewel. I goes out on 7 day cruises 
to Orlando, FL and the Bahamas, with stop at Great Stirrup Cay which is 
there private island.  When we got on there had to wait until 10:30 and we 
were early, so we talked to some passengers who had just come off the ship 
and they loved it.  I met some other travel agents, some were also IC with 
Montrose and finally got to meet them only hear there voices on webinars.

You cannot take pictures or video inside the Customs area so we had to wait 
until we were walking to the boat for my daughter to take video.  I do have 
some up on facebook and on youtube, you look up on youtube for member 
angeldn3 you will find my videos still putting the up.

We get on the boat, and Maxx my guide dog was great I just told him to 
follow daddy, which is Nelson and he did a great job, for those of you who 
don't know I am not totally blind I do have some vision in right eye. so I 
can see things but not full features etc. The ship was the first one I have 
gone on.  And it was huge, but the one we are going on in November is 
bigger.

We got on and we first started our tour of the staterooms we did the 
courtyard villa suites which is the next step up from your regular balcony 
staterooms, plus they gat there own courtyard, which has private pool, 
exercise rooms, dining area, it is covered while in port and then the room 
is retractable can enjoy the day sunning on a lounge chair or reading on a 
chez sofa or whirlpool or a steam room, we were falling in love.

Then it was on to the staterooms themselves the rooms are a little bigger 
then a hotel room for the villas, there is a separate area for the bed and 
bathroom, a sitting area, balcony, bar area, but each area is small, but not 
tiny.

Then we went to see Cagney's Steak House and Jogging Track, I took videos 
outside on the track because we had a great view of NY City, and the 
Intrepid right there and walked over the look down into the pool area, they 
were getting ready for the passengers going out that day, so the music was 
playing and the food was out for the clients, both in the buffets and the 
restaurants and in the pool area.  I spoke to a few employees and got them 
to talk to me on camera, I only got one person who asked me if I needed 
help, but I said no and they knew I was there as  a travel professional, 
plus Maxx got a lot of compliments and the staff was wonderful.

The pool area, has drinks and food, DJ, photographers, pool of course, 
really wonderful.  Passengers are going to have fun as soon as they board.

We walked then to the Bliss Spa: Spa services are extra, they have 
everything from teeth whitening to massages, and pedicures and manicures, 
and separate areas where you can just sit in your bathroom and lookout at 
watch the world go bye. relaxing.  They offer treatments for men, women, and 
couples for treatments.

on again to see the other staterooms, next it was to the penthouses, the 
main floor of the penthouses were nice, sitting areas, met the butlers, bar 
area, they separate dining room, and then walked up a flight of stairs to 
the bedrooms really nice.

Then on to the entertainment area of the ship, we didn't see everything we 
had to be off the ship by 2:30 and had lunch at 1:30

Saw the Theatre where they have live entertainment like a magician and 
second city comedy troupe.  We went to the Casino, no the machines were off 
in port, but they do have winners listed that have won over $30,000 on the 
cruise.

Then it was off to lunch.  We had lunch in one of the restaurants that are 
included in the price of your cruise.

We ate at the Tsar's Palace Restaurant

The interior is an inspiration of the grand palaces of St. Petersburg and 
the era of the great Tsars of Russia. A five-course, award-winning menu is 
the inspiration of our master chefs

I had the cold banana soup which Norwegian is famous for there chilled fruit 
soups so I thought I would try it as appetizer, my daughter had baby 
asparagus and mushrooms, and nelson had the same as me.  Wow it was nice and 
refreshing after the hot day of walking and the staff asked me if the dog 
could use some water and said yes, they brought him a nice bowl, they also 
told me that if he had to go potty after that they would help me find a 
place to take him, but we were leaving after lunch but they were great.

For main course I had BBQ ribs and warm cole slaw, the food was wonderful, 
not dripping with sauce but the meat was falling off the bone  and the cole 
slaw was great, we had wine as well, for desert Nelson and Dina has berry 
cobbler with vanilla ice cream and I had chocolate mouse love it.

Then we had to leave and head home, it was getting late and the boat was 
getting crowded with passengers going back through customs to leave and pick 
up our IDs the passengers were still boarding, but we had a great time. 
Can't wait to go in November.

Want to come there is still plenty of room!


Cheryl Echevarria
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