Mimie03

Thanks so much. The deli (or Guys) sounds like a good choice for us. Hubby loves evening pizza raids so I’m sure he will get there.

Is the Dining room open for lunch?

We wound up booking the NOVOTEL MIAMI BRICKELL for $190/night. Dec 20-22. I booked thru Priceline but I can cancel up to the 17th. For that time of year I didn’t think it was too bad.

Looking for hotels in Downtown Miami. Want to be near the Marketplace. does anybody have any idea what hotel this is? It says that there’s a $37 a night resort fee that will be added automatically to your bill once you get there.

I’m pretty sure I got the basic. It included drinks, one excursion, one specialty dining, wifi and that’s it. it doesn’t include gratuities. We only need it for one person so I guess I’ll upgrade once I get on board. Because it’s Christmas I’m darned if I’m not gonna talk to my kids or my best friend.

I’m assuming that with the have it all package that they give you the basic Wi-Fi. Can you upgrade once on board to the premium package? And if so, does anyone have an idea of how much that would be?

Just keep trying. Or call specialty dining at HAL. They will tell you. I think it was 3 months out for us. And you have up to 4 days out to change or cancel for free. I canceled one of mine 4 days out for one of mine. I called them.

That’s not what I meant. You can change from a set time to an Anytime dining. What I was referring to was if you have any time dining, and you want to book a specific time, save for Christmas day, which is what I tried to do, then they cannot do that for you. You must wait until you were on board and as soon as you get on board you need to go and ask at the main dining room. I do not want to get stuck with an 830 dining time so the second we get on we are going to then ask for a reservation for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Sorry if I wasn’t complete in my answer the first time. I hope this clarifies what I was trying to say.

No you can’t. I asked a HA Representative last night about it. They can add or refund specialty dining reservations, but they cannot do the main dining room. That can only be done once you are on board. if you go to make a reservation or they do for specialty dining, if there’s no actual time that you can select, it means that they are sold out for that night. Hope that helps.

We got one reservation at a specialty restaurant as part of the have it all package. We chose the pinnacle. We already had one for the tamarin. So that makes two on each of the days. I think those are also the formal days or what used to be called that and so therefore I’m happy to be in a specialty restaurant that night.

We are going to make ours once we get on board. Pretty sure that if I make a reservation at noon time then I will get something for dinner.

Thanks everyone. I think I’ll stay where I am. I kind of suspected it was a bit much for just a seven day cruise, but I’ve never been offered an upgrade before, so I wasn’t entirely sure. We did upgrade to the habit all package and that was already a bit of a sticker shock so I think we’ll just stay where we are. Usually the full balconies are a bit bigger anyway. The thing is my husband thinks we are midship when I saw this full aft become available, I jumped on it. I haven’t told him about the change. I want to surprise him. I was willing to surprise him with an aft or a suite but I think I will stick with what I have. Pretty sure I can use that $800 in Cardow jewellers in St. Thomas. Haha 😆

I’d like some opinions please. We are booked in a full aft (8164) for our upcoming cruise on tgg by e Eurodam in a couple of weeks. I hit an email from HA offering an upgrade to a signature suite for $400/pp. This is a 7 night cruise. My question for you in the know, should I do it? Or stay where we are? We do love watching the wake at the stern of the ship but a suite… Opinions please?

Is this place downtown or near the port? I’d love to go check them out too.

I’ve always had good luck with Cardow Jewelers. They are downtown. Very reputable. Once I had a problem (a few months after I got home) and they paid for me to ship it back, repaired it and returned it to me. All no charge. PS hubby likes that place too because of the beer garden in back.