Jump to content
Cruise Critic Community

Katenewbie

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    12

  • Joined

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Katenewbie

    My time dining - charges for your whole party???

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    http://www.royalcaribbean.com/findacruise/ships/home.do?br=R&exCode=702

    When you click see ships with this feature you get this link. It's basically all of the ships, right? What's missing? Jewel is on there.

     

    Yeah, but... The link says, "click here to see which ships offer this feature." Which, to me, implies some offer it and some don't. So the link takes me to all the ships. I click on Jewel, but I see no mention about MTFD. Does that mean they don't have it? Or does that mean I'm just not looking in the right place?

    My time dining - charges for your whole party???

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    Thank you thank you! You have helped immensely everyone!

     

    It makes total sense to me now, if it includes the cabin steward,, and if it really is MTD versus MTFD... why it includes everyone in the party.

     

    We are fine with the regular early seating... I was mostly thinking that the kids would have MUCH more fun eating quickly and heading off to Ocean Adventures... so I'm really glad we can do that regardless.

     

    Thank you for clarifying it!

    My time dining - charges for your whole party???

    in Royal Caribbean International

    Posted

    I've been told this twice, now, so I must believe it is true... but I'm still just kind of incredulous about this policy.

     

    As it has been explained to me, if you choose to do My time dining (for 2 kids to eat fast and leave early), your tips are prepaid... ($45 pp). But the charge applies to your entire dining party.

     

    So, since we are going with my in-laws (3 of them), and we have 5 in our party (2 adults, one baby, and the 2 "my time" kids), ALL EIGHT of us would be paying $45 per person?? Can someone explain the rationale behind this? For a 4 night cruise, I understand that the recommended tipping for dining staff would be $3.75 pp for waiter, 2.25 for assistant, and .75 for head waiter. For a 4 night cruise that is about $30 pp. So, for 8 people, it is about $120 more to do "my time".

     

    I could understand charging per kid. Or even for the 5 of us in my family. But really, for all 8 of us?

     

    I must be missing something here. Can anyone set me straight?

×
×
  • Create New...