LittleTinker

Seems to be some confusion. As far as I know you can order breakfast from your room every morning and there is no delivery charge.

But cant you have this anyway without paying extra? Pretty sure you can have room service breakfast in with the standard cruise package?

Did you have some available and some not? Most venues are available for me to book except 3 of them......Sabatinis, Spellbound and OMalleys.

I hope so. Id really love to go.....but am afraid itll be booked up.

Hmmmmm.......I go in 23 days lol

Dining options have only just become available to me, and on a couple of the restaurants, there is no picture, just a greyed out space and they show no available time slots at all....on any day, Am i to assume Spellbound and Sabatinis are all fully booked up for the whole cruise?

No tip per request. It is what you pay for when booking a suite with concierge. Tipping them after every request is just ridiculous.

There are no ramifications. Its beneficial to take children away when its available.....even if thats outside of school holiday time.

And where do the children go then, if the other pools are boring?

Noro generally spreads among elderly people very quickly due to several reasons. They have weaker immune systems due to age primarily. The majority of people with a normal healthy immune system will not be floored by Noro....they will, however, if they are super sanitised and have weakened themselves that way. Buffets dont cause Norovirus

Why?

Yeah those padded chairs are suite guests only....and they dont pay the $99 a day

Me too however it looks very very small. I hope its just the photos that dont do it justice and its bigger for real.

Someone posted $450 a day somewhere but I cant find it now

The average buffet is perfectly safe for everyone. Now what we have happening now is people are becoming petrified of all normal human germs and are doing everything in their power to stop contracting any whatsoever. Sanitising everything all the time is only harming you.......so that when you DO ingest a germ you will get much sicker, much quicker than someone like me who doesnt do all those things because my body is used to it. It staggers me that most people just cannot grasp this concept. The more germs you take on, the LESS sick youll become.

Why? Buffets had nothing to do with Covid and vice versa,

Is there an independent adults only swimming pool on the Sun? I did not know this was the ship it was when I booked it. Starting to regret that now.

Im just not a germaphobe and was always quite happy eating at the buffet. Its nice to browse whats on offer without thinking Im holding the line up, pick as big or as small as I like without having to say "more please, less please" all the time.....plus, the most important thing....I get to put items on my plate where I want them. Servers dont want to listen to my meal time OCD....but I like my plate arranged the way I like it. Its why I always used the buffet and not the MDR. Now all the germaphobes have taken over and ruined it

Sorry.....Panathenaic Stadium home to 'modern' Olympic games

We are doing an Olympian Morning where we go to the original site of the Olympic games and learn something of a few events. They end the time with a race which I wont be doing though lol We are also doing an evening bike tour of the city. Me and my fella did this in Paris and it was fantastic....a really good way to see the city. You can do a street food tour....a food and drink tour.....that kind of thing. All very small groups and low key. Bike ride by the sea. Trip to the islands Waterpark Hiking.... Many good options

Afternoon tea is always a delight but unfortunately, on ships, you never get proper cake. And cookies? Never part of afternoon tea!

Defeats the purpose of having my own balcony. Who wants to look out of their window and see some fat guy in speedos staring in at me? No thanks

So do I. A buffet is self serve....what they have now is a cafe. And yes, it makes the queues longer. When people are saying "some of that please. No...a bit more. A bit less. Thanks" Lots of wasted food too

Yes.....I would agree.

I am an ex hotelier and experienced hospitality restaurant manager and I can tell you that the definitive answer to this is.....it depends. A very busy restaurant, for example, would lose money if it took bookings on a Saturday night. Being able to sit guests as soon as previous guests leave is far and away the best use of space. However, this doesnt always work in hotel restaurants/high end restaurants and you have to take in to consideration whether not allowing bookings will put people off coming. Therefore a mix is generally better in high end and hotel restaurants.