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On the last 14 day cruise on Britannia they had this offer.

11 hours ago, Zombatar said:

Okay there seems to be a lot of speculation about wine by the glass, well let me point out a few details, but only for red wines as that is what we drink. If you want a 250 ml glass of wine with your dinner (red that is) the only wine under the £6.95 limit is the house red. Now to be fair that's not a bad wine. But anything else moves up to £7 plus change and so is beyond the scope of the plan. This is not based on hearsay or conjecture but on our drinking the wines for the last 28 day cruise on Ventura. The wine selection is not especially limited and most of the reds are quite good.

Take or leave it folks, it's the truth.

Peter and Jenny

hmmmmm

1. you can't order 250ml glass sizes under the plan only 175ml.  250ml counts as two drinks and is not allowed.

2. unless prices have risen there were quite a few 175ml wines available on the list under £6.95 in November 2018.

Free in-room breakfast menu

last ones till I sort more pics out...

Room service food.

Some more stuff..

Glass House wine flights , Laundry, In Room beverages and water

Just checked the price of my favourite on board beer "Old Speckled Hen" and according to the room service price list its £4.15.

It used to be £3.95 as per the Oceana June 2018 price list posted earlier in this thread.

That's why I queried in a previous post if the room service prices are slightly higher than the on board bar prices.

Also, according to the room service price list I see it's listed as Gluten Free.

I didn't know that.:confused:

Room service "Hen" and "estrella" are both gluten free versions, propbably expalins price difference ?

Am I correct in saying that the room service drinks prices are slightly higher than one would pay if ordering the same drink from an on board bar.

Have a bag full of receipts here !. Zinfandel west coast swing... same price as in room, £17.95 in Sindhu, Epicurian, Glass House, Beach house and Blue bar... the Mrs's favourite !

Attached Britannia in room drinks B820 15th July 2018.

Hi I've been on Britannia before but didn't get to eat in the main dining room (was a celebration cruise so each night in speciality). Now looking to book a couple of cheeky cheap trips on Oceana (with only a main dining room budget !).

Please do not judge me, but I like my food.

On every other cruise line I've been on, when in the main dining room, I've always been able to order say two starters and two main courses that I've fancied, is this going to be an issue in the dining room on P&O ?

Yes I know theres a buffett for grazing, but I like to eat in the main dining room.

This information (room service & pool towels) popped up on Royals UK travel agents site yesterday, the same site that first mentioned Dynamic Dining was to end (5 months later it did !). I,ve stiched together two screen grabs as its too tall for one grab.

We normally add an average of $10 - $15 depending on service.

Current captain on board until Brazil crossing.

he's quite a laugh, you must go to his question and answer session on last sea day.

Other onboard dining deals

I don't think Chefs table was in the Ultimate package, I can't say for sure as it was never on our wish list, but it is in the other packages.

We got to know the Chefs Table waiter (wonderful guy from Brazil) as he collects his clients from the meeting point at the end of the RBar.

Some nights he was several guests short and would offer "special" prices to anyone around at the bar.

No mystery dinner just Indian night.

I did not see any wine only packages.

Just back off a fantastic 9 day cruise on Rhapsody of the Seas around the Greek Islands and Turkey.

Though I'd share the onboard drink and dine deals on offer.

As this cruise visited Turkey it was European VAT free. So just US $ prices inc grats were shown everywhere.

I was going to prebook Premium drinks package for the two of us but held off until onboard.

I'm glad I did as we were greeted with the following offer.

25% off purchase of two Premium or Ultimate beverage packages. We paid a total of $415 each for the Premium packages.

I'm not quite sure on their daily maths on the flyer, but to me $415/9 = $46.11 each per day, it was 3 x cocktails and 2 bottles of water per day breakeven!

I'd read about the "Ultimate Dining" package on some previous Rhapsody compasses kindly uploaded by a CC member.

This would suit our needs for this cruise (we had a birthday and 2 anniversaries to celebrate) and looked like a good deal.

Any speciality restaurant every night for $20 each. I'd understood from other cc threads there was a $35 allowance to use in Izumi.

So just to be sure of what's allowed etc, I asked at the signup table, "yes $20 per day, any speciality restaurant",

Michael from Izumi was manning the dinning package desk, I queried how this would work at Izumi to be told

"sir it's unlimited", I asked again to be sure, & took his name and photo !

He was extremely helpful and we sat with him and booked our weeks speciality dining, also noting the birthday and anniversaries requests we had.

I also wanted to do the Giovannis Indian curry night, he offered me this at $22 not the $29 they were advertising it at.

So did it work. Well yes and brilliantly !

we had 3 nights at Chops, 2 nights Giovannis, plus curry night and 3 nights at Izumi.

All the restaurants mentioned we were on the deal at checkin and seemed pleased we'd taken the offer.

AND YES Izumi was all you can eat !

We'd only ever done Izumi before on Allure and then we had the Hibachi.

So for us this was a new experience, and we made sure we tried everything we liked the look off.

Really enjoyed each meal there and Nelson (Brazil) our excellent server on all 3 nights.

"Cocktail of the day" on Rhapsody is gone!

Now have "mixologist" drinks at $16 each! with a 20% discounted between 5/7 & 9/11pm.

Spent many hours at the RBar don't think they sold many.

Worrying thing for those looking at Select drinks package.

When we drink wine we liked the cheapo Behringer White Zin (we drink it like lemonade, couple of bottles per meal).

A glass of this (& the other base priced wines) is now $9 Did not explore further as how that worked on the Select package $8 limit.

Diamond Internet discount.

We needed internet for the whole trip but the $40 diamond discount did not show on signup.

Guest services put this right, seemed it was the norm for them to do it retrospectively.

A wonderful cruise enhanced by the great Ultimate dining deal and discounted Premium drinks package,

off course we tipped extra each meal for the great service.