You are correct on the price. If your teenager likes to drink bottled waters , sodas, mocktails or coffee drinks it may be worthwhile to get him plus as well since that includes the WiFi and crew appreciation and all the non alcoholic drinks they want
Reserve dining has nothing to do with loyalty points but is limited to full suites and reserve mini suites. Depending on their perks they may have paid more or less than others
Suites do get perks. One of them is a convenient dining room. Others are the use of concierges and suite breakfast managers who can get you into specialty dining when the app shows no openings
I tend to agree with you and if this deal had gone on longer it might have had an effect. There have been so many cruises where the cutoff was over 600 days so our 500 plus doesn’t even do anything. It might get someone into a 7 day Alaska cruise where last month people made it with 150 days but it should not affect the normal 16-20 cruises we usually take
Please see post #4. It avoids all the arguments the staff at Reserve Dining have to go through. ZI have seen some get very heated and if fact have seen security called
There is never any mandate to eat X amount of courses. We almost never eat desserts in SD dining. App and Main is usually plenty you will not be pressured to order more than you want
MTG lunches or cocktail parties usually take well over 300-400 days to qualify I don’t think a few cruises with double credits is going to move people from Ruby to MTG
The reason they have the regular breakfast in a different restaurant from reserve class is that the reserve class is for suites and some mini suites and they do get some preference. In the past the regular breakfast was in the the same MDR as reserve and when people found there was a wait they would try to talk their way into Reserve because they could see open tables. I saw quite a few confrontations and was not surprised when they separated it into 2 different dining rooms
I have never been in the ships laundry but the must mix them since hundreds of people send out laundry. If you want you can use the self service laundrys that are on most decks with cabins