SeaMatesNYC

Double cheeseburger!

Hope you have a great trip! Come back and share your impressions! It’s a good product (usually) and has lots of loyal customers. But I admire your trying something new. I’ll be 4* soon and I know, once I start getting the free laundry, I’ll be hard pressed to branch away again. 🤪

Nope. No loud or silent discos, unless you count the dance floor in BB Kings for the Orange Party, which can get sort of disco-y 🕺. There is dancing at BB Kings most nights, but it’s no disco. But it can sound pretty groovy! All depends what you like. I don’t think I’ve seen any dancing at the Rolling Stone Rock Room, but maybe?

Policy seems to be to put a meet up notice in the daily program for day 1 and sometimes day 2. This may or may not be “hosted” by a staff person who may or may not stay for more than a few words. The follow on meet ups are generally left to participants to organize and agree upon - e.g. let’s meet at Billboard at 5:00pm. Which can be fun if you want to join others for dinner. The overall “scene” around the ships varies greatly depending on the destination, time of year, etc. There are really not any late night venues as one might find on other lines with bona fide discos. From my “youth,” I remember G32 on QM2 and Skywalkers on the Princess ships. Plenty of cruising happened there! I gather hanging out at the casino drinking and gambling late does attract a crowd. Not our thing.

In 2023, on one voyage of ours, ShoreEx staff would do this and on another they would not. The "would not" scenario was the Head of ShorEx onboard. I do hope that it has now become routine on all ships, but I did experience an exception. Note that when it was permitted, it did not immediately go back to the pre-charged card, but rather onto the shipboard account as a refundable credit, which would go back to the card on file for the shipboard account (which can be a different card), assuming you don't spend it on something else!

Sounds like my impressions of his land-based restaurants. Good, not great. It's a good price compared with what you will spend on land. Any limits on what you can order (multiple starters, multiple mains to share, etc.)?

Oh gosh, that's the ship we are on!! Since it's "free," I think my expectations will be met. Care to share what was not good on the Koningsdam iteration?

There was also a random $25 per person Group Amenity from HAL (not the travel agent) that also showed up upon booking. I am thinking it was perhaps some culinary cruise group booking that I somehow qualified for. Not that I am some foodie, but I am excited to try it. I certainly hope that it is better than our past couple experiences in PG!

On an upcoming cruise, we have a complimentary/promo dining credit on our booking (not HIA) that allowed us to redeem/book a dinner at Rudi’s through Navigator app free of charge (full promotional savings for dinner for 2). Anyone ever see this? I researched online and found some “culinary” voyages on HAL offered through travel agents that have had this as a benefit in the past, but my online travel agency knows nothing about it. I’ll print and carry aboard the confirm showing the full promotional credit when I booked it at $0 to us, but I’m just curious if others have seen and used this. Again, this is NOT via Have It All benefit. Perhaps it was a technology bug, but it clearly shows in our Itinerary as reserved and the promotional savings on the emailed confirm shows fully comped.