breakfast in the Main Dining Room - Dawn

[keegsgrammy]

Just wondering if we can eat breakfast in the main dininig rooms or is this just reserved for people staying in suites and higher? Also wondering if there are fridges in the balcony cabins and if they are empty or would they have mini bar items in them. Thanks for all your help...We are going in April and want to be as prepared as we can be. Next questions will be about the weather and what to wear.....Jeans or shorts. Thanks again for all your replies much apprciated. :)

[puddles99]

The Main Dining Rooms are open to all. I don't know about the fridges, though.

 

Enjoy your adventure!

[tippingd]

Anyone may eat breakfast in the main dining rooms. A perk for people in suites is they may eat breakfast & lunch, I believe, in Cagney's restaurant instead of main dining rooms or buffet. Bermuda in April can be very warm or cool, it just depends. I would take some jeans & some shorts to be on safe side.

[Sauer-kraut]

If you do have a fridge in your cabin it will be stocked as an honor bar. We just moved things around to make some room, we didn't have much to put in there.

[bakerintn]

You will have a mini bar in your refer in a balcony cabin on the Dawn...you can ask the steward to remove every thing for you. If you just move some or all of the items without telling the steward, you may be charged for what is "missing".

[aamiee]

Our last cruise on Dawn we just put all the items in the fridge on the shelf above the fridge and we just put it back the last day never get charge. We didn't feel like to ask our room steward to do it. We did ask him to remove the coffee maker though because it take so much room and we never use it.

[laxlove6]

Just move to another shelf. I know you can get room attendant to remove it but that is a a lot work for the attendant to do 10-15 rooms? Just tell them you aren't using the mini bar and not to charge or restock it.

[OneWiseCruiser]

We just sailed on the Dawn in Jan/Feb 2012, and ate breakfast every morning in the MDRl. As others have stated, it is open to all. I get up early so I always went to the Garden Buffet at about 5:15am and brought down two 16oz. Bubba bottles of coffee to the room (although our cabin did have a coffee maker we never used. Back to the MDR option, we also had lunch there whenever it was open. There were perhaps two or three afternoons during our 11-night caribbean cruise when the MDR was closed due to being in-port. I must say, there were never many diners in the MDR for Breakfast or lunch ...it was fantastic!

 

We were in an AFT Mini-Suite on Deck 11 and had a mini-fridge that was stocked. We didn't buy anything out of it ...or need to remove any items to store our own 20oz Diet Coke bottles or our Wine bottle. We kept at least two Cokes and one Wine bottle in it at all times. We brought our own wine glasses from home, but I know we could have just requested glasses from the Cabin Steward if we so desired.

 

As a side note, we kept meeting people on our cruise that said they didn't come for the Entertainment and thus did not attend the shows each evening. Our view was that out of all our cruise vacations NCL had the best Entertainment and the Norwegian Dawn Singers and Dancers were fabulous. The Comedian, the vocal impersonator and the concert pianist / vocalist were also out of this world great. The magician / card trick / memory guy was great at what he did, but in our view watching a guy do card tricks on an overhead projector in a mammoth auditorium is just not all that entertaining. On all the other cruise lines, we had a feedback survey at the end or the cruise that collected detailed feedback about each individual show ...not so on Norwegian. The survey was in an email several days after returning home, and only asked about the Entertainment as one aspect of the Cruise vs. gathering feedback on each show / performer.

[Fine and Jim Dandy]

Just wondering if we can eat breakfast in the main dininig rooms or is this just reserved for people staying in suites and higher? Also wondering if there are fridges in the balcony cabins and if they are empty or would they have mini bar items in them. Thanks for all your help...We are going in April and want to be as prepared as we can be. Next questions will be about the weather and what to wear.....Jeans or shorts. Thanks again for all your replies much apprciated. :)

 

All rooms on all NCL ships except the Spirit are equipped with a refrigerator. They all are stocked with various soda, beer, wine etc. Simply remove the items and place them on one of the many shelves. Takes about 1 minutes. No need to bother the room steward about it.

[dread_pirate]

Do the interior cabins also have coffee makers?

[keegsgrammy]

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