Dinner packages

Can anyone tell me if it’s really worth it to buy the dinner packages, it seems like the cost will be pretty much what the menu entree will cost anyway...anyone have experience with this?

Unless you are a very small eater, or were only planning on having one meal then the dining package is almost certainly worth getting.

Some people report running up bills (that are then covered by the package) in the a la carte restaurants far in excess of the per meal cost of the SDP. Personally, we don't get huge bills, but they are always more than that per meal cost.

If you are planning on eating 3 or more times in the speciality restaurants then get the package.

I usually sail RCL and feel meal packages there are worth it. I got one on NCL epic in August and didn’t feel the quality in the specialty restaurants was worth the extra. The meals in the MDR were great

Can anyone tell me if it’s really worth it to buy the dinner packages, it seems like the cost will be pretty much what the menu entree will cost anyway...anyone have experience with this?

If you are going to go to the trouble of going to a specialty restaurant and eat one appetizer, don't get the package.

If you are going to eat an appetizer(s), entree, dessert, then the package will save you a lot of money.

For us, we are lucky we are platinum plus and always get the UDP as a perk. So we do not have to worry but before we got the DPP as a perk, we usually just did it one dinner at a time I love the specialty restaurants but am also content to eat in the MDRS. My answer, we would not purchase it, I don't think.

Thanks for your input everyone  We purchased the 3 meal plan

It is to us because we don't like eating from buffets. NCL has a good enough selection of restaurants for us.

We started  cruising with NCL 30 plus cruises ago because of the dining service and selection.

The minimum purchase of the dining package is -3- meals.

You can purchase up to the exact number of days your cruise is.

With the variety of restaurants on any NCL ship 3 as a starter is fine.

Use one at Teppanyaki (the most expensive)

Use another at Cagney's

and finally one at Le Bistro

Leaving the two MDRs - the Buffet - O'Sheehan's rounding out the

7 day cruise.

There are of course other restaurants this just for an example.

On ships that have Los Lobos go ala carte instead of burning a

dining package meal.

If you have Platinum status or better remember that you get

two additional meals - one with a bottle of wine.

You certainly will not go hungry and any questions your waiter

maybe able to reduce the dining bill to nothing but a tip.

Only frustrating thing is the Jack Daniels Shrimp cocktail in

Cagney's is limited to just that darn I hate that when that happens !