First night specialty dining question?....

[monakayk]

Are there any discounts for booking specialty dining on the first night, or can you get a free bottle of wine by eating the first night in specialty dining venue ? Thanks in advance.

[dickinson]

I did not hear anything. We ate in Crown Grill and it seemed crowded. 

[AnyMajorCruiseDude]

No discounts I'm aware of, but if you have the coupon book, you can present coupon for free bottle of wine on first night.

[monakayk]

30 minutes ago, AnyMajorCruiseDude said:

No discounts I'm aware of, but if you have the coupon book, you can present coupon for free bottle of wine on first night.

How do you get a coupon book?

[memoak]

36 minutes ago, AnyMajorCruiseDude said:

No discounts I'm aware of, but if you have the coupon book, you can present coupon for free bottle of wine on first night.

And it will be a cheap bottle. Forget about an old vine zin to go with that steak 

[AnyMajorCruiseDude]

We got a Fetzer merlot a couple of times, a la crema chard once, and a Ferrari carrano merlot.  we were happy.

[AnyMajorCruiseDude]

Its called "wine of the day". And we were told it was extra stuff they had hanging around.  We thought it was a good coupon.  Books were provided via ta promo, and were delivered via email prior to the cruise.

[monakayk]

Thanks for these answers.

[CruisinFinsUp]

22 hours ago, monakayk said:

How do you get a coupon book?

 

These are a limited offering of coupon books available for your travel agent to "gift" you on your booking.   They used to have decent coupons in them.  Unfortunately the 2022 ones are more "buy something and we'll throw you a bone" type.   In prior years, there was a buy one get one free coupon for embarkation day only at the specialty restaurants.    This year's coupon is "goto specialty restaurant on embarkation day only and get a free bottle of todays wine of the day".   

 

I know all this because we booked a cruise for Jan 2022 and our TA gifted us the coupon book, and Princess emailed it to us so I read the whole book (it was pretty short!).   Then we cancelled the cruise due to covid.    

If you don't have the coupon book marked on your cruise booking, you can't use the coupons.  

 

This is a completely different set of coupons than what used to be in every stateroom on embarkation day, back quite a few years ago.   

Edited February 14, 2022 by CruisinFinsUp

[nini]

On 2/13/2022 at 3:14 PM, memoak said:

And it will be a cheap bottle. Forget about an old vine zin to go with that steak 

Yum! Old Vine Zinfandel is my favorite! 

[monakayk]

On 2/14/2022 at 2:36 PM, CruisinFinsUp said:

 

These are a limited offering of coupon books available for your travel agent to "gift" you on your booking.   They used to have decent coupons in them.  Unfortunately the 2022 ones are more "buy something and we'll throw you a bone" type.   In prior years, there was a buy one get one free coupon for embarkation day only at the specialty restaurants.    This year's coupon is "goto specialty restaurant on embarkation day only and get a free bottle of todays wine of the day".   

 

I know all this because we booked a cruise for Jan 2022 and our TA gifted us the coupon book, and Princess emailed it to us so I read the whole book (it was pretty short!).   Then we cancelled the cruise due to covid.    

If you don't have the coupon book marked on your cruise booking, you can't use the coupons.  

 

This is a completely different set of coupons than what used to be in every stateroom on embarkation day, back quite a few years ago.   

Thank you for this additional information.