Dining aboard Splendida

[Tapi]

Hello:

 

I've been looking at different sites, including the MSC website, and I can't find a straight answer about the dining experience aboard MSC, specifically on the Splendida.

 

• Can someone tell me if dinner at the main dining room is at an assigned table and time, or do they give the option of dining at our leisure?
   
  
• Is it also true that there's a charge for room service? If so, can you give us an idea of how much it cost?
  

 

Thanks in advance for your responses!

[sbtw13]

The splendida is the sister ship of the fantasia, they both cruise in the Med, and do things the same way. I am basing this answer off of the Fantasia- and I am confident the Splendida is the same.

 

Can someone tell me if dinner at the main dining room is at an assigned table and time, or do they give the option of dining at our leisure?

1. Yes- dinner in the MDR is at an assigned table and time. You will be either assigned to early or late dining (this was 6:15 and 8:45 on my recent cruise.) You will have a specific table to sit at. If you want to dine at your leisure your option is to go to one of the pay restaurants-which have food offered a la carte. You can actually do this relatively cheaply if this is what you want to do- but going to lunch late, and then to afternoon tea- so that you don't want much for dinner.

 

Is it also true that there's a charge for room service? If so, can you give us an idea of how much it cost?

 

2. Room service is free for breakfast- any other time you pay for it. The cost depends on what you order. Quite honestly the menu is fairly limited and I did not find it at all appealing.

[Rhea58]

What sbtw13 stated is ALL true for the Splendida.

The dinner time on my 11/09 cruise was 6:30 -early & 8:30 late

and there are 2 dining rooms, one of which is where your

table assignment is.

 

I used the free room service every a.m. as I need my coffee

to function. I then went to main dining room most days for

breakfast as I prefer being seated & served rather than the

zoo topside.

 

Re menus: Dinner Menu is in 6 languages...always look at the

'regional selection' which is invariably very good. Stay away

from beef which is not palatable; the vegetables & lamb-good

and always an offering of risotto and pasta. Appetizers & soups

were uniformly good. However, the pastry was uniformly dry

(I ordered a pastry and a gelato each nite) and left the

pastry uneaten. Their coffee and pastry charge case has

infinitely-better looking pastry at 4E and up which is NOT like

anything offered in the DR.