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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Norwegian Escape Western Caribbean Review 2025 | Norwegian Cruise Line

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Heather took a seven-night Western Caribbean review of Norwegian Escape from PortMiami. 

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This is Cruise Radio.

0:20.1

Hey, how's it going?

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My name is Doug Parker.

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Thank you so much for making Cruise Radio a part of your weekend.

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Happy to have you here, my friend.

0:26.7

A review from Heather of Norwegian Escape.

0:29.5

She did a cruise earlier this year out of Port Miami,

0:32.1

her very first Norwegian cruise line sailing, actually.

0:35.6

So we'll have her on just a couple of moments here to talk all about her cruise. And I have to mention cruise news today every Monday through Friday, the top three things you need to know. Plus the financial report that is just opposite of this channel or on Cruise News Today on YouTube. How you doing, Heather? I'm good, Doug. Yeah, I believe last time we spoke, you did, what was it, Discovery Princess? It was. So I'm excited to talk to you about your very first NCL cruise and see what you thought of it. So before we get there, we'll take a step back, as we always do. You're up in northern Mississippi. So give me some pre-crued thoughts. What made you want to take this seven-nighter on NCL and try out NCL for the first time.

1:12.8

We were asked to go. What made you want to take this seven-nighter on NCL and try out NCL for the first time?

1:13.1

We were asked to go on a cruise with some friends, the friends that actually got us started with

1:20.6

cruising, and we had not been on a group cruise or with other people since our very first one.

1:27.5

And so it ended up being us and them and four other couples.

1:33.0

And so we kind of got together and tried to figure out what cruise line we wanted.

1:38.8

And we knew that we wanted to go somewhere other than out of New Orleans because you're

1:43.1

really limited when you go out of New Orleans because you're really limited when you go out

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