Need Help with the Dawn!!!!

[emcemt]

Hey all...just booked a 10 night cruise on the Dawn over thanksgiving and i'm pretty psyched!!!! I am new to NCL though...what can I expect compared to RCCL and carnivsl. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanx!!!

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Celebrity Horizon 9/93
Grandeur Of the Seas 9/96
Soverign Of The Seas 10/00
Disney WOnder 9/01
Sensation 2/02
Carnival Legend 5/03
Serenade of the Seas 9/03
Adventure of the Seas 8/04

[emcemt]

We will be a group of seven...anyone have any idea of how dining will be? I kinda understand the Freestyle dining but how will they seat a party of seven> Do you just walk into the resteraunts or do you need reservations? Thanx for your help!!

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Thanksgiving on the Dawn!!!!
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Celebrity Horizon 9/93
Grandeur Of the Seas 9/96
Soverign Of The Seas 10/00
Disney WOnder 9/01
Sensation 2/02
Carnival Legend 5/03
Serenade of the Seas 9/03
Adventure of the Seas 8/04
NCL Dawn 11/04

[caper]

I have taken a cruise on the Dawn for my honeymoon, but I got very sick from the cleaners they use to clean the rooms and ship common areas. I had to leave the ship half way into the cruise.

[Big Al B.]

I don't think the main dining rooms take reservations, but you should be able to get a table for seven. I guess the wait will depend on the time you get there and how many people are eating at that time. You just walk in and tell them how many you need seating for. The specialty restaurants do require reservations. All of these except the Italian one are pay extra.

Statendam-Alaska '97, Veendam-NE/Canada '98, RCCL-Bermuda, '99, Am. Queen, 2000, NCL Sky-Caribbean '03, NCL Dawn - Bahamas '03

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[emcemt]

Exactly which resteraunts have a surcharge and is it worth it? I have enjoyed the surcharge resteraunts on other cruise lines and have found them excellent for the most part. How much are the surcharges? Thanx for the info.

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Thanksgiving on the Dawn!!!!
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Celebrity Horizon 9/93
Grandeur Of the Seas 9/96
Soverign Of The Seas 10/00
Disney WOnder 9/01
Sensation 2/02
Carnival Legend 5/03
Serenade of the Seas 9/03
Adventure of the Seas 8/04
NCL Dawn 11/04

[howard6933]

We have tried several of the "extra charge"
restaurants on both the Dawn and the Star and
the one we found to be the best is the Japanese
Tepanyaki restaurant. If I remember correctly,
the extra charge was $12.50 per person, but I
believe it depends on what you order. The
main restarurants on both ships were just fine,
and the next time I sail on Dawn or Star, I
think we'll just stick to those except maybe
the Japanese restaurant again. It really was
the best meal we had on both ships.

[JH]

Le Bistro and Cagney's are both worth the extra surcharges. Food and service were both very good.

[jenhall11]

Both the Italian rest. and Salsa (tex-MEx are free) We sailed on 5/9 and found the service in all of the rest. wonderful except Cagneys. We ate there on the first night of the cruise and the service was horrible.(My lobster was wonderful) It took forever to give us menues, fill our order, clear our table and there was hardly anyone dining. We exepreinced fabulous service everywhere else. We bought soda cards and were always brought fresh glasses without asking. We tried Salsa, Cagneys all of the Main dining rooms and Le Bistro (twice). Le Bistro was worth the money. The covercharge is now $15.00. We had the firestart combo.both times.
We never had a problem getting into the sepcialty rest. without reservations. (We did have reservations for Cagneys). We would just go up to the Rest. and ask if there was a table available. We usually ate around 6:30. We did have trouble getting in to Impressions twice, but we just went to another rest. and were seated immediately.