Room Service MDR

[suncrab]

Was wondering if we could occasionally order dinner on room service from MDR to eat on our balcony on the Solstice?. Does anyone know if you can take away a meal from the MDR as well?.

[DaneViking]

Was wondering if we could occasionally order dinner on room service from MDR to eat on our balcony on the Solstice?. Does anyone know if you can take away a meal from the MDR as well?.

 

Yes... just ask your steward or if you are in a suite, your butler...

Don't think takeaway from the MDR is possible..

[cruisestitch]

The nightly dining room menu is available as room service during normal dinner hours, to all staterooms not just suites. You can stop by the MDR early in the day and take a look at the night's menu posted there, or you can ask your steward to get a menu for you. If you are in a regular stateroom it will be delivered with all courses simultaneously, if you are in a suite, they can deliver the courses one by one. Either way there is no charge for this.

 

Asking for takeaway from the MDR is a little trickier. Sometimes I have seen that they can make up a dessert as takeaway, but not the other courses. You just call room service and have them delivered.

[spookwife]

Was wondering if we could occasionally order dinner on room service from MDR to eat on our balcony on the Solstice?. Does anyone know if you can take away a meal from the MDR as well?.

 

RS yes, carry out, no.. they do not have the facilities to do that although you MIGHT get away with taking dessert out under a napkin at the end of the meal if you are stuffed.

[suncrab]

Thanks everyone I will use room service occasionally I was thinking when we had a long full day on shore excursions but we do still enjoy dining at the MDR and the specialty R's as well.

[cruisun]

Since the regular room service menu is ordered on the interactive system, who do you call to order off the MDR menu? Also, does anyone know how far in advance to order?

[dkjretired]

Since the regular room service menu is ordered on the interactive system, who do you call to order off the MDR menu? Also, does anyone know how far in advance to order?

 

Get a menu from your steward and just call room service.

 

Also, just to confirm what cruisestitch said, it is available to all cabins on the ship not just suites. Has been that way for about 15 years.

[Team Stag]

And remember it will not be served in courses. Everything you order will come at one time. Based on what you get and how many people are eating in the room; be prepared - it can be a lot of dishes.

[fleckle]

When we are not staying in a suite, we clear off the coffee table inside the cabin and move it over close to the balcony door.

We ask them to put the trays of food there, inside the cabin, when they deliver them.

 

It then takes us only a couple of steps to carry each dish out to the balcony table as we are ready for it, making it easy to serve ourselves in courses and then to return the used dishes to the trays on the coffee table afterward.

 

That way we get to eat each course on a nice, clear table on the balcony that is not cluttered up with stacks of trays and dishes.

 

We leave each dish covered until we are ready for it, so the hot dishes stay reasonably hot and the cold dishes cold.

The exception is if we order any ice-cream type of dessert, in which case we put it inside the little fridge until we are ready for it.

Or else we go up to the buffet to get ice cream later.

 

It works quite nicely and is almost like having the butler serve us, except that we get to stand up and take a few steps between courses.

 

In fact, we usually prefer to "buttle" ourselves in privacy instead of having the butler hanging around, coming and going throughout the meal.

 

Edited November 8, 2013 by fleckle

[cruisun]

I have never tried this on Celebrity and am looking forward to dinner on the balcony one evening on Silhouette in January!!

[UniPac]

They should add room server from Blu's menu, too :D