Europe 2019: Heading to the NCL Getaway

Europe 2019

Heading to the NCL Getaway

I should have just included this in the last post, but I forgot. On a Monday morning we packed up and headed to the port in Copenhagen to board our ship - the Norwegian Getaway. Rather than hire a car, we decided to go the public transportation route...along with just about everyone else heading to the ship it seemed.

It really wasn't that bad, mostly because there's no hurry. The ship leaves around 5pm but we were heading there about noon so it was a leisurely morning that included Samantha and Nana playing WAR.

Breakfast of Champions (that's a marshmellow).

There's a Sammy under there somewhere.

Branelle just had to hit up this Christmas shop but since we had already lugged our gear down the five flights of stairs from our apartment Sam and I volunteered to hang out at a cafe while Nel and Nana walked to the shop. 

Once they got back we turned into pack mules and hiked to our bus stop.

There are three ports in Copenhagen, but the bus dropped us at the correct one. Sammy was VERY excited when she could actually see the ship.

At this point we had to part ways with Nana for a bit because our cabin was on a different level than hers and we had a separate check-in location.

Embarkation was pretty painless. We had no lines in our check-in location so we got our cards and zipped right through.

I'm not sure if the ship was what Samantha was expecting or not but she was very excited to get on and explore.

Samantha meeting "Sparkles".

The first thing we did once on board was check Samantha into Splash Academy. I'll probably do a whole post on Splash Academy later, but the Cliff's Notes version is that she LOVED it!

Then we ate. Samantha also became a big fan of eating on a cruise ship. 

The muster drill was kind of a disaster on this one. It took 45 minutes and our location had nowhere to sit and was really hot for some reason. Samantha just took a power nap.

For the rest of the day we just kind of explored the ship and played around. I made everyone go to an art thing (they need culture). This was our first time on NCL and we had a good time. I'll review the ship in later posts.