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An extra $50 for clothing that's suggested and not required? It may also need to be pressed. For something doesn't affect anyone else? For a potential photo op that I may not want nor partake in?

 

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there will always be the guy at a wedding wearing jeans and a t shirt, and there will always be guys wearing shorts in the MDR, but most people dress appropriately for the location and the occasion. In this case you will be dining in a white table cloth restaurant. Your daughters will look great in their dresses and you will get some nice family photos. Make dinner a special occasion.

 

Enjoy your cruise!

 

Well said!

Just off the Liberty of the Seas. We had a promenade room on deck 7 and loved it. We heard more noise from the room next door than from the promenade below. I would book another one in a second.

 

Spent more time looking out over the promenade than i usually do out on my balcony.

Does anyone have information on the shows that are currently on the Liberty. Curious as to what we might see on our July sailing.

 

Thanks!

 

The CD John Blair does a Neal Diamond tribute that is outstanding. They had it mid afternoon on the second to the last cruise day which seemed unusual. Maybe they do this because it was the cruise director. The show could easily have been an evening show. This show is a don't miss if you are an older adult.

Your family couldn't ditch you fast enough, could they? I think if you are disappointed with NCL, that might be displaced.

 

 

To funny!

enjoying your review

 

for future reference if you are not already aware

although the crew always seem to direct you towards the garden café buffet on NCL there is always one main dining room open for embarkation lunch

 

it's nearly always half empty because they only announce the buffet option but it is a great way to start the cruise in a relaxed way

 

we have also found service to be quick unlike evening sittings where its often a drawn out affair with taking a while to be able to place orders and then a 20-30 minute delay till starter-reason why meals often reported as taking over 2 hours

fair enough if that's what you want but if you are wanting to do other things with your evening........

 

Hush;)

When I booked, there was no OBC offered. After final payment it's now showing $500 OBC on the left side of the vacation summary. I checked with my PCC and she said I don't have any OBC. It doesn't show on the amenity invoice or anywhere else. Just in that one spot.

 

 

Sweet

None there so I guess there wasn't one. Thanks for the help.

Is there any way to tell the amount of your OBC from the MyNCL site?

 

Appreciate the help.

We did the "St. John Champagne Cat" excursion offered by the ship a couple of weeks ago. The staff were very pleasant, drinks and snacks were good on the return trip and they had two boats neither of which were overcrowded. The snorkeling site not so good. We anchored a good quarter mile from what was a very meager snorkeling site that contain a minimal amount of both coral and fish.

Is the main dining room open for lunch on embarkation day?

So glad this thread was bumped to the front. Reviews are timeless and i so enjoyed reading yours. Our group of 10 just booked an October cruise on the Allure this week. So i guess that means I will spend countless hours over the next 9 months reading all the information I can about the Allure.

 

So happy that your review was the first that i experienced.

Thanks for the info. Now i know not to be in any hurry.

Haven't cruised with RCCL for a while and was researching for an upcoming cruise. The RCCL site identifies a half off second guest special. But even with the special the combined rate doesn't seem all that special.

 

Is this truly a current special or is this just simply a marketing tool that RCCL runs all the time?

Just off the Jade last week. Pretty much all wait staff are gone. Usually one and at most two in even the largest venues like spinnaker or the pool.

 

But the wait time at the bar wasn't excessively long.

Gained 5 pounds on my recent cruise. Got home on Sunday, weighed on Tuesday morning and was back to pre-cruise weight.

 

You are on a cruise, enjoy it!

The assembly line dining experience does exacerbate the impact of showing up late to the dining room. This is the case regardless of if you have table mates or if you are dining alone.

My wife and I had a table for two. I believe it was the second night of the cruise, the show ran into our assigned dinning time. The CD announced in the theater not to worry about diner that it would be there when we got there. Ended up arriving about 10 minutes late. We were seated over 15 minutes before our presence was acknowledged. This is the impact of assembly line dining.

[quote name='quickrate']We also, in 23 cruises, not had the bad service everyone talks about here. But, we are never in a hurry and love to take our time with the dining experience so a slower pace fits our style of dining. never understand those that want in and out in an hour.
Pat[/QUOTE]

Please look up the definition of frenetic. Several seem to think that the quality of service is determined by the speed of dining. Quality service takes time. I felt like their sole goal was to get me in and out of the dining room ASAP. Our meals never took more than an hour. Waiters sprinting around the dining room providing what one poster defined as an assembly line operation. Never taking the time to ensure that our needs were meet. That's what equates to service.

Just a quick P.S. to the above post. The food was very good. Probably better than what i am use to!

[quote name='springs741']You really do sound like YTD people.
As many have said if you go before your assigned time either the doors will be closed or there will be people (that had early) sitting at your table. If you are late and are seated with others they will be made to wait to give you a chance to arrive. If you are at a table without others your late arrival will thru the wait staff off. If you have ever done the "Behind the Fun" you would better understand how assembly line works.[/QUOTE]

Assembly line is right. Don't know when CCL went to frenetic dining but it sure has changed the dining experience. I am guessing it has to do with significant cuts in staffing. It has been a while since I have had anything but freestyle dinning on NCL where service is still offered. So I am guessing that this change has occurred on all of the mainstream cruise lines with assigned dining.

Dining on the Dream was pretty much like convention dining. Service is pretty much gone. A long way from the crumb scraping days of old. Just don't miss the bread basket when it comes around because that second opportunity is probably 30 to 40 minutes away. I learned to get all that i wanted for dinner the first time around.

Thanks all. Guess I will just show up when I show up just as I always have.

Received my text with my assigned check-in time of between 2:00 and 3:00 PM. Since the ship leaves at 4:00 I would guess that this is the last boarding time. Under what criteria does Carnival use to make the assigned. Cuz this sucks!

Thanks so much for posting your great review. We are leaving on the Dream in just a couple of weeks. Your great review just adds to the anticipation!

Great review! I just cruised the Dream as well. I hope you don't mind me sharing a video of the Dream here to compliment your review...

 

 

Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed watching the videos. Love a happy family.

Thinking i might purchasing the cut-in-front-at-the-elevator package.