Dining Room Open on Embarktion day?

[Eurocruiser2010]

Hello! Could someone please tell me how late the dining room is open for lunch on embarkation day? We are planning to arrive to the port around 1 or 1:30 on embarkation day, meaning we probably won't get to the dining room until around 2 p.m. Will they still be open?

 

If it matters, we are sailing on the Jade out of Barcelona.

 

Thanks a million!

[Got Tequila?]

Hello! Could someone please tell me how late the dining room is open for lunch on embarkation day? We are planning to arrive to the port around 1 or 1:30 on embarkation day, meaning we probably won't get to the dining room until around 2 p.m. Will they still be open?

 

If it matters, we are sailing on the Jade out of Barcelona.

 

Thanks a million!

 

 

On our Spirit to Bermuda cruise last week the main dining room was open until 2:30, with all services shut down at 3:00.....to prepare for the 3:30 mandatory life boat drill. We sailed at 4PM.

[Rileyz]

Staff/Crew will try and get you to go to the buffet but take a left and head to the dining room, it is open.

[garycarla]

If you are planning to do the sit down lunch - GREAT IDEA - you might want to arrive just a little earlier - not much. You could run into that shutdown for the lifeboat drill.

[BIG_Steve]

Staff/Crew will try and get you to go to the buffet but take a left and head to the dining room, it is open.

 

They did that on the SKY too. Why? If the MDR is open, what difference does it make to NCL?

[njhorseman]

Staff/Crew will try and get you to go to the buffet but take a left and head to the dining room, it is open.

 

They did that on the SKY too. Why? If the MDR is open, what difference does it make to NCL?

 

 

I've never had a crew member try to direct me to the buffet. I just have a feeling that when someone who doesn't know which dining areas are open asks a crew member, the first answer they get is the buffet. Somehow this has morphed into an urban/Cruise Critic myth implying that they try to strongarm you to go to the buffet. :rolleyes:

[big green]

I've never had a crew member try to direct me to the buffet. I just have a feeling that when someone who doesn't know which dining areas are open asks a crew member, the first answer they get is the buffet. Somehow this has morphed into an urban/Cruise Critic myth implying that they try to strongarm you to go to the buffet. :rolleyes:

 

This has happened to us on several cruises-- soon this feature will probably go away as a cost cutting measure with MDR closed at lunch on embarkation day and in port days--i see it coming.

 

BG

[luddite]

I've never had a crew member try to direct me to the buffet. I just have a feeling that when someone who doesn't know which dining areas are open asks a crew member, the first answer they get is the buffet. Somehow this has morphed into an urban/Cruise Critic myth implying that they try to strongarm you to go to the buffet. :rolleyes:

 

I wouldn't call it a strongarm tactic, but.....at the stairwell, the very nice young lady would ask "are you looking for the buffet?".

This was one stairwell and 20 feet from the MDR. Or....we could have hooked the elevator and gone 6 floors up to the hog-trough.

I hafta believe that she was trying to direct people to the buffet.