Surprisingly disappointed with the food on the Pearl

[missintuitive]

Let me help you out. Trying it ONE time is NOT buying the 7 day package. It's going to the restaurant of your choice and paying the ONE TIME upcharge fee. As I previously stated if you can't afford to feed your own kids ONE TIME in a specialty restaurant, they will probably be very happy in the MDR or buffet. In my world 'teens' are kids and don't get to come along if I can't afford it. Hopefully granny and papa have a couple bucks stashed away and can also pay if they choose. They are adults right?

 

With that many people on a cruise together I would guess you shelled out thousands and thousands of dollars for the trip. You are trying to convince us you don't have maybe 100 bucks extra for discretionary spending? If that is true, I personally don't think you should have booked the cruise. You are cutting your expenses too close. However, it's your money and your choice so do as you wish, just don't try to convince me that a few piddly dollars are what is keeping you from trying a specialty restaurant just once.

 

I feel like I am working PR for NCL trying to convince people to spend their nickels and dimes while on board. Promise I aint.

 

Let me help you out...and as stated to you before by another poster...there is a difference between being able to AFFORD it and being WILLING to do it. I agree, I have already paid thousands of dollars on a vacation that has meals included. Those meals should be of high enough quality that I shouldn't HAVE to spend the extra money just to get a reasonably decent meal (as compared to the MDR). On most land all inclusive resorts, the specialty restaurants are no extra charge. I just demonstrated to you that its not $100 extra bucks...its $210 on average for one night at a restaurant.

 

I'm not really concerned this time around because we have the UDP but when others say "NCL is the most affordable...blah, blah, blah" that is not necessarily the case when you fact in a the "supplemental" costs. At the end of the day, I'm going to enjoy my vacation but some of the "hip, hip, hooray" posts defy logic and basic math.

Edited October 15, 2015 by missintuitive

[LMaxwell]

The fallacy by LMB is in thinking that once I book a cruise I've also decided I am going to spend extra for dining, I just need to select which one; that I am spiting myself by going to the MDR. I'm not saying I haven't gone to specialties, I have. I am not saying I will never go again, I might. But it's not logical to say since I've spent thousands of dollars on vacation I might as well spend hundreds more otherwise I'm wasting an opportunity. I don't automatically spend money in the spa, casino, or art auctions just because I have the ability to pay for the cruise; those areas don't interest me, so I don't spend just to spend.