Breakaway cafe rotterdam8/18/2023 Epic’s external appearance is certainly unique, with her top-heavy (ugly?) forward superstructure, housing the private ‘Villa Suits’ complex (re-branded ‘The Haven’). Epic was also the second biggest class of cruise ship in the world when she entered service (based on gross tonnage).Īt times NCL are so brave with their new ideas, that they find themselves balance on the knife-edge between innovation and risk. She has 21 dining options and multiple entertainment venues, often hosting ‘branded’ shows from Las Vegas or Broadway, such as the ‘Blue Man Group’. She was originally meant to be one of two 155,873 gross tonne, 4,200 passenger ships, code-named F3’s (an abbreviation for ‘third generation freestyle’). However the second F3 was cancelled after financial issues and disagreements with the STX shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, France. According to NCL, ‘Epic’ was the most ‘innovative’ ship afloat, costing $1.1 billion. NCL entered the mega-ship league with ‘Norwegian Epic’ in June 2010. The pre-2010 fleet have up to twelve dining options with about half of these carrying a surcharge. In short there are multiple restaurants and no allocated dining times, so passengers are free to dine when they like, where they like and sit with whom they like (between core hours). NCL are famous for their ‘freestyle’ innovation which all of their fleet are now specifically designed for. (However If you are in a hurry, skip straight to the ‘Project Breakaway’ sub-title).īefore June 2010 the ‘Norwegian Cruise line’ (NCL) had a fleet of ten ships in the 75,338 – 93,558 gross tonne range, generally carrying around 2,400 passengers each. It’s just not possible to properly review ‘Breakaway’, without looking at what came before her in the NCL fleet.
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