Limit One per Customer?

[mfs2k]

Do you think Celebrity should have the option to limit specialty dining to one reservation per restaurant on a sold out cruise so more people have the ability to experience high demand restaurants?

Edited October 15, 2022 by mfs2k

[NorthStarStateCruiser]

12 minutes ago, mfs2k said:

Do you think Celebrity should have the option to limit specialty dining to one reservation per restaurant on a sold out cruise so more people have the ability to experience high demand restaurants?

Celebrity does have the option to limit people to one reservation per restaurant. They don't because that would cut into their onboard revenue.

[Frenchkona]

First of all do you really think that’s necessary and second do you think Celebrity would do it. Just prereserve as many as you want before you leave. Not really that hard. Don’t wait to the last minute. 

[Homosassa]

Why?

 

Many of us have no desire to do specialty dining.

[PTC DAWG]

48 minutes ago, mfs2k said:

Do you think Celebrity should have the option to limit specialty dining to one reservation per restaurant on a sold out cruise so more people have the ability to experience high demand restaurants?

No.

[PTC DAWG]

8 minutes ago, Homosassa said:

Why?

 

Many of us have no desire to do specialty dining.

We are all different, I rarely set foot in the MDR. 

[Jeremiah1212]

I doubt the complexity of creating a system to remedy a problem that doesn’t often exist is worthwhile. If doing so resulted in less overall traffic in speciality dining, you can bet that idea would get squashed instantly. 

 

[jelayne]

Everyone wants to go a popular restaurant that is always busy; few want to go to the place that is never busy.

 

[cruisestitch]

7 minutes ago, Jeremiah1212 said:

1 hour ago, mfs2k said:

Do you think Celebrity should have the option to limit specialty dining to one reservation per restaurant on a sold out cruise so more people have the ability to experience high demand restaurants?

They already do

[jelayne]

8 minutes ago, cruisestitch said:

They already do

What are they limiting? We have 2 Murano bookings on a upcoming cruise.

[cruisefam38]

19 minutes ago, Jeremiah1212 said:

If doing so resulted in less overall traffic in specialty dining, you can bet that idea would get squashed instantly. 

so true

[cruisestitch]

6 minutes ago, jelayne said:

What are they limiting? We have 2 Murano bookings on a upcoming cruise.

They already do have the option—they aren’t exercising it but they already could if they wished.  Their ship, their rules.   If and when they feel the need to limit reservations, they will.

[FBrew]

3 hours ago, mfs2k said:

Do you think Celebrity should have the option to limit specialty dining to one reservation per restaurant on a sold out cruise so more people have the ability to experience high demand restaurants?

No because I am going on the Beyond Oct. 26th and I booked my 2 specialty restaurant back in February.  I have also booked my specialty restaurants for the October 23 Beyond transatlantic and March 2024 partial Panama Canal.  

[neverlaysup]

When we sail Windstar, they limit you to one reservation per specialty venue per week (they are all free) and this allows everyone to enjoy the experience. On Celebrity, all the specialties are pay per use so why would they want to limit the experience and potentially reduce profits. In a perfect world, they would sell so many dining packages pre cruise that it would not allow for any walk ins except the top tier suites (dine for free). 

[Denny01]

And why would the ship limit a passenger to how many specialty reservations they make? They want to fill to capacity and its up to the passengers to get what they want. Kind of saying you cant book more than one popular tour because…..

 

The ship obviously ‘limits’ how many can make reservations at set times. Theoretically they can limit someone but I’ve never seen, heard, read, experienced, etc, the ship not allowing anyone to book additional.

 

There are Many passengers who enjoy the specialty restaurants over and over, and a number of posters who have stated they Only dine at those. Myself? We book one per cruise, usually. 

 

First come, first booked. 

 

One time, I went to book the Eden which was pretty limited, and they offered me a discount to book the last night, which is usually lower use because so many are packing and getting ready to go off. We were on a B2B and jumped on it. 

 

Den

[Alakegirl]

3 hours ago, mfs2k said:

Do you think Celebrity should have the option to limit specialty dining to one reservation per restaurant on a sold out cruise so more people have the ability to experience high demand restaurants?

I think Celebrity already has that option but they don’t choose to use it

[Georgia_Peaches]

Often when something is showing as fully booked in the cruise planner, you can obtain a reservation once on board..via cancellations or the fact that it wasn't fully booked in the first place.

[BOB999]

I'm sure they could if they wanted to; however, I'm not sure how much of an issue people repetitively booking the same specialty reataurant really is.

 

If anything, I could see folks in the upper suites doing this since they get unlimited complimentary specialty dining.  That being said, is Celebrity really going to alienate these folks?

[Georgia_Peaches]

2 minutes ago, BOB999 said:

I could see folks in the upper suites doing this since they get unlimited complimentary specialty dining. 

We like to book a RS if the price is right and certainly enjoy the included specialty dining.  And admittedly, we typically dine in all of them at least once and Murano at least 2 times, if not three.  I don't know for certain, but my guess is that they leave some gaps in their reservation schedule to accommodate those in upper suites which may be the reason the planner shows no availability.  

[MISTER 67]

Brings to mind a famous Yogism, no one goes to that restaurant anymore, it's too crowded.

[WrittenOnYourHeart]

I've only been on one Celebrity cruise so far, and I did Eden once with booking on board. I didn't look into any others.

 

I know Disney has chosen to limit ADVANCE reservations to their adult-only restaurants to once in each (well, one dinner and one brunch in each) reservation -but you can always check for more bookings once you're on board. And it's seemed to work ok for them. (The one exception I've seen - and I don't know if it's every time on the OG 4 ships or at all on the Wish is that if you book Palo for the first night in advance, you can book a second dinner in advance.)

[carolina_yankee]

1 hour ago, WrittenOnYourHeart said:

I've only been on one Celebrity cruise so far, and I did Eden once with booking on board. I didn't look into any others.

 

I know Disney has chosen to limit ADVANCE reservations to their adult-only restaurants to once in each (well, one dinner and one brunch in each) reservation -but you can always check for more bookings once you're on board. And it's seemed to work ok for them. (The one exception I've seen - and I don't know if it's every time on the OG 4 ships or at all on the Wish is that if you book Palo for the first night in advance, you can book a second dinner in advance.)

 

While we have been shut out of Palo for advanced bookings, we’ve always been able to get a reservation on embarkation day, and have even repeated later in the cruise if they had openings.

 

I don’t know if Celebrity holds any bookings back for embarkation, but Celebrity (and most cruise lines) also has more specialty restaurants and thus booking capacity than Disney. Our Apex sailing is four weeks out and each specialty restaurant still has capacity, though not at the best times.