its the galley for both dinning rooms, mid ship and aft. you can not walk thru. you need to go up to another deck and back down. This is common on lots of other ships
if you do the behind the scenes tour, you can go to galley
they very very rarely check the ticket names. you can give your shore excursion ticket to whoever
it might be issue if you need to sign a waiver to do the excursions then they might check names on the tickets with those that signed the waiver
If you do not have the dinning package, it is normal and been the norm for years for the flat fee restaurants to list the cover price that you have to pay for you
if you have the dinning package then the flat fee restaurant will appear as 0.00 cost but you still have to book flat fee restaurants first and then al la carte last for the checkout price to come out to 0.00
for the water think of like a delivery charge. i noticed other cruise lines have some kind of delivery fee/surcharge for items that get delivered to your room
be prepared for the terminal check in people to retake your photo. i sailed on the escape twice recently and both times they had to retake my picture in the terminal
Escape does not have Beatles. There is a supper club that is used for a vocalist or some other band. On my cruise they had a band that usually plays in the atrium do a show in the supper club
on the 2 escape bermuda cruises did a few weeks ago, the time change back to local new york time was done on the last night of the cruise. the morning of debarkation is when the time new time took into effect