Cagney's for lunch or bkfst - fee or free?

[Kaboochi]

What is VIP status? We are sailing via a casino certificate at a very nice rate with some perks. I wonder if BF or Lunch at Cagneys is included. Does anyone know?

[samplecd01]

Wanted to clarify since I seem to have been partly the cause of the anger.

 

#1- I have a AB suite on my cruise so yes, I have paid for the suite privileges

#2- I also have had young children, currently mine are 11, 13, and 16 and they have been on cruises with me at a young age so I do know what it is like to cruise with young people.

#3-On my cruise it would be cheaper for me to have booked one suite and then put 2 or 3 of the others of my family in a balcony or cheaper room. I did not do so because I wanted to be sure that everyone received the same perks and wouldnt want those who happened to be named in the suite to recieve something those that were not named in the suite (and the ensuing fights over it "not being fair")

 

On another note, whether or not we agree with it, it is up to NCL management to decide whether or not the occupants of the balcony room can join you in Cagneys, If they say yes I would think you would be grateful of the privilege extended to you and if they say no, accept it humbly.

 

Thats my opinion.

 

Cynthia

[Planer's Edge]

What is VIP status? We are sailing via a casino certificate at a very nice rate with some perks. I wonder if BF or Lunch at Cagneys is included. Does anyone know?

 

Booking with CAS does not award you with VIP/suite perks. You will however receive a drink card that gives you free drinks while you are gambling in the casino.

 

PE

[Micchi]

What is VIP status? We are sailing via a casino certificate at a very nice rate with some perks. I wonder if BF or Lunch at Cagneys is included. Does anyone know?

 

Not sure where you got the cert, but outside casinos do not confer VIP status. NCL management (or NCL's own casino) might.

[ddljcruisers]

What's so odd about this is that you have to book an adult in a room with kids even if you are exactly across the hall in a suite. I'm putting my name in the teens room just for the booking, even though I'm staying in the suite with my husband. I couldn't imagine that NCL won't swap the room cards out for us and, as I am paying for it, would certainly expect suite perks. They told me they needed to put my name in the teens room for booking purposes only.

 

We were on RCI last summer also in a suite and they made things so simple.

[mksgfly]

You are paying an additional fee for another room on top of what you are paying for the suite. Sure, you could pile them all into the suite, but then NCL wouldn't have several hundred dollars more from you. Also, it's immediate family.

 

I think the entitled ones are the ones that say "No". :p

 

Remember, if they do say no then just have your butler or conceirge order food from Cagney's and have it brought to your room!

 

Good luck! Enjoy your cruise!

[ddljcruisers]

Actually, I'm even worried whether I'll have a problem myself, as for booking purposes NCL required that I put an adult in the teens room- so I put myself. So it looks (from a booking standpoint) like I'm the one staying in the inside room rather than the suite with my husband.

 

I hope in actuality that it will be simpler than it seems and all these worries for naught.

[newmexicoNita]

What is VIP status? We are sailing via a casino certificate at a very nice rate with some perks. I wonder if BF or Lunch at Cagneys is included. Does anyone know?

 

i don't know about that but VIP status is pretty much limited to special guests and suite guests. It is up to the management to decide if guests are VIPs or not.

 

Nita

[BMS921]

I had a 2 bedroom family suite on the star. Cagney's is included for all if you book this type of suite. It worked great for us and my kids. They had a room and bath inside the suite and we had a wonderful room and huge bathroom. We shared the dining, living rooms and veranda. :)

Great alternative to a room across the hall. The suites are named after gems and have all the VIP perks.

[brockwell]

I'm not sure I understand how you can order in your room from Cagney's. Do you get their dining room menu to order off, or is it the standard room service menu? And can you do this at anytime, or just during the hours they are open for dining room service? Several people have mentioned this bonus for suite guests but I'm a little unclear as to how it works. Sounds like it may be a really good option for us, since we have one Penthouse and an adjoining balcony room, and may not all be able to dine there together.

[EileenN]

If you have a suite that has a butler, he/she will provide you with menus from all the restaurants on board if you ask. Then you may order dinner and it will be delivered to your suite by your butler at the time you request. If you wish to have friends dine in your room with you, that is doable. If the menu is from a extra cost menu such as le Bistro or Cagney's, you will still have to pay the extra per person. If it is from the main dining room, there is no extra cost.

[ncyankee]

We are booked on a suite on NCL Star and have our kids in an inside cabin right across the hall. I figured I'd be able to bring them to Cagney's with us (it would have been cheaper to just add them to our suite room than getting them their own) but might this be a problem that I didn't consider?

Thanks!!

 

My husband and I were in a suite on the Jade -- my children were in an inside cabin. They were more than welcomed in Cagney's. After the 1st day the hostess knew who they were and welcomed them in.

[DMH15]

My husband and I were in a suite on the Jade -- my children were in an inside cabin. They were more than welcomed in Cagney's. After the 1st day the hostess knew who they were and welcomed them in.

That's nice it happened for you but it doesn't for everyone.

[DMH15]

It's all a matter of personal opinion. I would hope that NCL is decent enough to recognize that not all families can fit in one room, and for those of us that are required to book two rooms we should all get the privileges of the highest category. I'm not talking about extended families or big groups, I'm talking about single families with enough children to require multiple rooms. Remember, we have to pay for 4 adults even though there are only 2 adults in our party. So to say we're not paying for suite privileges for my children is ridiculous. I suspect that those who don't agree very likely don't have young children themselves.

Rates are not adult or child. They are based on # of pax.

[DMH15]

You are paying an additional fee for another room on top of what you are paying for the suite. Sure, you could pile them all into the suite, but then NCL wouldn't have several hundred dollars more from you. Also, it's immediate family.

 

I think the entitled ones are the ones that say "No". :p

 

Remember, if they do say no then just have your butler or conceirge order food from Cagney's and have it brought to your room!

 

Good luck! Enjoy your cruise!

 

You're right, sort of... if they piled all of them in the suite NCL wouldn't get the several hundred dollars from them... They'd get it from someone else. That cabin would be available for someone else

[erdoran]

My husband and I were in a suite on the Jade -- my children were in an inside cabin. They were more than welcomed in Cagney's. After the 1st day the hostess knew who they were and welcomed them in.

 

I would love to know if this is consistent because we'd love to cruise with our adult children but not have to pay for suites for them, or cram them into our suite. Is there a difference? It's nice to know that there's an exception made for children, even adult ones, so families only have to pay for one suite! Until now we had figured that if we wanted them to have suite privileges we'd have to pay for suites for them. Nice to know there's an exception made for single families with children!

 

And since we have six adult children, of course we need at least one, if not two, extra rooms!

 

To quote Brockwell "I'm not talking about extended families or big groups, I'm talking about single families with enough children to require multiple rooms." That's us!

[goodml]

I would love to know if this is consistent because we'd love to cruise with our adult children but not have to pay for suites for them, or cram them into our suite. Is there a difference? It's nice to know that there's an exception made for children, even adult ones, so families only have to pay for one suite! Until now we had figured that if we wanted them to have suite privileges we'd have to pay for suites for them. Nice to know there's an exception made for single families with children!

 

And since we have six adult children, of course we need at least one, if not two, extra rooms!

 

To quote Brockwell "I'm not talking about extended families or big groups, I'm talking about single families with enough children to require multiple rooms." That's us!

 

This is an opinion only. I can see NCL allowing this for minor children staying in an additional room while the parents are in a nearby suite. I just can't see them creating a situation where (technically) the parents have to send the kids off for breakfast by themselves so the parents can enjoy the perks. In your situation with adult children though, sorry, it doesn't seem a reasonable request. An adult has the capacity to choose whether or not to pay for the extra benefits. Clearly they may not be able to afford to do it but they still have the opportunity to take a great vacation like the rest of us commoners. Without the perks!:D As people have said, there are always exceptions but I just can't see them allowing another 6 adults along who haven't paid for the benefit. Again JMHO.

[erdoran]

This is an opinion only. I can see NCL allowing this for minor children staying in an additional room while the parents are in a nearby suite. I just can't see them creating a situation where (technically) the parents have to send the kids off for breakfast by themselves so the parents can enjoy the perks. In your situation with adult children though, sorry, it doesn't seem a reasonable request. An adult has the capacity to choose whether or not to pay for the extra benefits. Clearly they may not be able to afford to do it but they still have the opportunity to take a great vacation like the rest of us commoners. Without the perks!:D As people have said, there are always exceptions but I just can't see them allowing another 6 adults along who haven't paid for the benefit. Again JMHO.

 

I guess to some extent I was being a bit sarcastic/ironic, aka Swift's "A Reasonable (or is it Modest?) Proposal". It isn't fair to send minor children off to eat by themselves - but OTOH it's easier to share a suite (2-br family suite, for example, capacity 6) with minor children than with adult children.

 

I would not expect to get suite perks for six (or twelve, if they cruised with mates) adult (ages 20 - 25) children unless all of us stayed in suites, but I was also exploring to see if there IS an NCL policy where parent/child families are an exception, or if even the aft PH suites with adjoining aft balconies are exceptions. As per postings here, exceptions appear to be made for some posters so why not for EVERYONE under the identical circumstances? How fair is it that if I want my children to cruise with me and join me for suite perks all of us have to pay for suites, but other posters can pay for one suite and one (or more) insides and all get suite perks?

[brockwell]

Seems to me that everyone who has posted on this thread (or similar ones) who have actually cruised under these circumstances - 1 suite, 1 non-suite - has been successful taking their entire family to Cagney's. Has anyone posting here actually been denied this perk? Meaning, told 'No' at the door when trying to seat their entire family when some of them do not have suite key cards? I could be wrong, but all the naysayers seem to be those just voicing their opinions. Anyway, I will report back in a few weeks after our cruise and let everyone know what happens. Thanks for all the kind comments from those wishing us luck!

[SeattleCruiselover]

Seems to me that everyone who has posted on this thread (or similar ones) who have actually cruised under these circumstances - 1 suite, 1 non-suite - has been successful taking their entire family to Cagney's. Has anyone posting here actually been denied this perk? Meaning, told 'No' at the door when trying to seat their entire family when some of them do not have suite key cards? I could be wrong, but all the naysayers seem to be those just voicing their opinions. Anyway, I will report back in a few weeks after our cruise and let everyone know what happens. Thanks for all the kind comments from those wishing us luck!

 

I did see people denied entrance on Star in September on the couple of occasions that we used Cagneys for breakfast or lunch (we preferred dining en suite, where we could have had anyone and food from anywhere without problems). And they did not look at key cards. They have your names listed with suite number, and they know exactly how many people are in the stateroom.

[CruisersfromOhio]

We also booked 4 suites and 2 insides - with 12 travelling. Again, it would have been cheaper to double up in the suites, but we prefer to spread out the space (and two more suites weren't available close by)

 

Any answer on Cagney's issue?

[njhorseman]

We also booked 4 suites and 2 insides - with 12 travelling. Again, it would have been cheaper to double up in the suites, but we prefer to spread out the space (and two more suites weren't available close by)

 

Any answer on Cagney's issue?

 

It's been answered many times. Use of Cagney's by other than suite passengers or VIPs identified by the casino or the corporate office is at the discretion of the ship's hotel director.

[beachchick]

I would love to know if this is consistent because we'd love to cruise with our adult children but not have to pay for suites for them, or cram them into our suite. Is there a difference? It's nice to know that there's an exception made for children, even adult ones, so families only have to pay for one suite! Until now we had figured that if we wanted them to have suite privileges we'd have to pay for suites for them. Nice to know there's an exception made for single families with children!

 

And since we have six adult children, of course we need at least one, if not two, extra rooms!

 

To quote Brockwell "I'm not talking about extended families or big groups, I'm talking about single families with enough children to require multiple rooms." That's us!

 

I get your references about consistency. I am loathe to say that exceptions should be made for anyone because then everyone expects them. However, I do see a huge difference between minor children who parents are still responsible for and adult children who presumably you have raised to actually be responsible adults. No, your adult children should not be extended the perk, IMO (and in most cases it seems, in NCL's as well). Should minor children be extended the perk? That's iffier, but I tend to say no. If the parents want the perks for all, then they should expect to pay for them for all just like the rest of us.

 

beachchick

[RichNY]

Cruisers from Ohio and Brockwell

 

Since you both have suites you also have priority check-in...When you check in the concierge will probably be there so you should mention you situation and concerns at that time..all the cabins you booked should be linked.

 

I would have a hard time imagining a concierge saying no to you..

 

Both of you have a great time...

[njhorseman]

Cruisers from Ohio and Brockwell

 

Since you both have suites you also have priority check-in...When you check in the concierge will probably be there so you should mention you situation and concerns at that time..all the cabins you booked should be linked.

 

I would have a hard time imagining a concierge saying no to you..

 

Both of you have a great time...

 

Once again, it's not the concierge's decision, it's the hotel director's, unless he happens to have delegated the authority to the concierge.