Janespup Posted February 11, 2015 #1 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hi, How do you choose the nights you want to eat at a specialty restaurant? Do you look at dining room menus first? Sea days? Port days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigeldelarue Posted February 11, 2015 #2 Share Posted February 11, 2015 We always do the specialty restaurant on departure day as we find the MDR a little to unorganized and hectic. Also normally you get a 20% discount on first night of sailing :) The rest of the time we look at the menu the day of and if there is nothing good we book something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigque Posted February 11, 2015 #3 Share Posted February 11, 2015 We usually will do two nights on a 7 day cruise. I usually look at the menus for the particular cruise and will schedule the 2 Specialty nights when there is something on the menu that we don't care if we miss it. We always let our waiter in the MDR know the days we won't be there. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spookwife Posted February 11, 2015 #4 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hi,How do you choose the nights you want to eat at a specialty restaurant? Do you look at dining room menus first? Sea days? Port days? mainly by menu. the two menus between Formal nights are usually the ones where none of the entrees excite me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreday3 Posted February 11, 2015 #5 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Can you book these on the ship? Or do you need to do it before you leave? Would love to be able to just decide day of... We are sailing FOS if it matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Posted February 11, 2015 #6 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Specialty restaurants can be booked on the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George C Posted February 11, 2015 #7 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Can you book these on the ship? Or do you need to do it before you leave? Would love to be able to just decide day of... We are sailing FOS if it matters. you normally can book on the ship if it isn't sold out, and normally this is not a problem- if you have a special occasion and want a certain restaurant I would book it in advance . I think MDR is a little nicer on formal nights , but that is just us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted February 11, 2015 #8 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Go to cruise critic to verify menu order, then make reservations for the nights with no appeal. And do your waiter a favor and let them know you won't be there that night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisegirl1 Posted February 11, 2015 #9 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Several ways. We'll go once or twice during a week cruise. We like to dine in the specialty restaurants on the last night. - Our favorite plan We prefer to dine there on a (Caribbean) port day rather than sea day. On a sea day we tend to eat a larger breakfast and lunch, not to mention snacks. We generally eat less on a port day. Caribbean port days are generally relaxing on the beach, or some snorkeling and not too tiring Exception to the port theory, We don't go as often on an itinerary (Europe) that has exhausting and long sightseeing port days, such as a Med cruise. (We did not go at all on a recent 2 week Med cruise). We sometimes dine there on the first or second night because we have a BOGO coupon ( we don't go two nights in a row). In summary, we usually go by our schedule, rather than the dining room menu. Enjoy, M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreday3 Posted February 11, 2015 #10 Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) Go to cruise critic to verify menu order, then make reservations for the nights with no appeal. And do your waiter a favor and let them know you won't be there that night We have my-time dining, so I didn't think we had a set waiter? Thanks everyone! Edited February 11, 2015 by dreday3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsail Posted February 11, 2015 #11 Share Posted February 11, 2015 We just book when we want. Never look at the mdr menu. If they don't have a time to suit us then we just switch to another night when the time is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tm3750 Posted February 11, 2015 #12 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Even with MTD they still try to sit you with the same team every night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted February 11, 2015 #13 Share Posted February 11, 2015 We prefer sea days..port days are tiring, and I want to be able to enjoy that which I pay extra for. We decide "spur of the moment"...I do NOT plan what I'm going to eat weeks or months in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreday3 Posted February 11, 2015 #14 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Even with MTD they still try to sit you with the same team every night Thanks. How do you let the waiter know if you are deciding that same day?:) (sorry, all new to me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsail Posted February 11, 2015 #15 Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) Thanks. How do you let the waiter know if you are deciding that same day?:) (sorry, all new to me) On all the newer ships the minute you book a SR on ship its in the system showing what you are doing that time/evening, the mtd waiter would see that if he/she looked because you were not there and would know you were at the SR. Sometimes I will just ask the sr person making the resi to take out the mdr time Edited February 11, 2015 by setsail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonnatrycruisin' Posted February 11, 2015 #16 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Even with MTD they still try to sit you with the same team every night We were on Serenade of the Seas last week and did MTD. We ate in the main dining room every night and we never sat at the same table twice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_G Posted February 11, 2015 #17 Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) Thanks. How do you let the waiter know if you are deciding that same day?:) (sorry, all new to me) If you have MTD, I wouldn't worry. The last time we had MTD reservations, we went to the dining room one day to cancel. When we told them, they said "OK" and never even asked for our cabin number. We had no other reservation that night. We decided to Windjam it because we were in port late. We've never made an MTD reservation since and always get the same waiter without a wait. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Edited February 11, 2015 by Big_G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketMan275 Posted February 11, 2015 #18 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hi,How do you choose the nights you want to eat at a specialty restaurant? Do you look at dining room menus first? Sea days? Port days? When are formal nights? Those are the ones we choose for specialty dining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afdds Posted February 12, 2015 #19 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Every night is a good night. Seems like each cruise we add another night. For sure formal nights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-52 Posted February 12, 2015 #20 Share Posted February 12, 2015 When are formal nights? Those are the ones we choose for specialty dining. same here...we don't care for formal nights, so we book the specialty restaurants on those nights.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUT2407 Posted February 12, 2015 #21 Share Posted February 12, 2015 IF I do specialty at all it's a night the menu doesn't excite us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgirl70 Posted February 12, 2015 #22 Share Posted February 12, 2015 How do you find the menus in advance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted February 12, 2015 #23 Share Posted February 12, 2015 How do you find the menus in advance? Only way is to ask here on CC and hope that someone who has recently cruised on the same ship and itinerary will report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigeldelarue Posted February 12, 2015 #24 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Something else Imfound interesting was that the Specialty Restaurants charge a extra $5 per person on formal nights ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketMan275 Posted February 12, 2015 #25 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Only way is to ask here on CC and hope that someone who has recently cruised on the same ship and itinerary will report. file:///C:/Users/Duke483/Downloads/1349876628_Culinary-Road-Show-Main-Menus-Final-0925AD%20(1).pdf The menus can be found at the above link. Don't know the order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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