Live from the Mardi Gras02/17/24 cruise. It is Mardi Gras time (well close), come on along for the ride.

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4 hours ago, sparks1093 said:

This info alone makes me glad that I followed along. I'm often up at 5a.m. even on vacation so knowing where the coffee is helps. Which WiFi plan are you using?

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4 hours ago, Knights on the Beach said:

 

We did a spring break cruise on Mardi Gras in 2022. We heard some wild stories but fortunately we didn't see most of the antics. We stayed away from pools and hot tubs that week (except the hot tubs by Serenity a couple times). 🙂 

It is what it is.  We would not sail spring break cruises for many reasons.  This one we dis for two specific reasons, two of our daughters and their families can only travel this week in non summer break week cruises.  We are fine with it.  What happened next, not so much.    

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We have late dining in the Palm restaurant.  Our dining time is 7:45pm.  Every other assigned dining time cruise on the this ship we were in the Flamingo restaurant.  For what it is worth.  The Palm upper level (and maybe more on early seating) are for Any time dining.     

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6 hours ago, dacsmom said:

Looking forward to another review. I am on the Mardi Gras in June.

Glad to have you along for the ride. 

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When we normally lead groups, prior to the cruise, we work with the groups department on seating (number of tables, size of tables), things like that.  On this cruise, we had a bunch that were doing ATD and (16 of us, mostly our family, and some friends) that wanted late seating (not my favorite, but cruising with family, so what the heck).  
 

We had asked foe two tables of 8, and when we got on we found we had not gotten that.   We went sown to the Palm restaurant and met with one of the asst maitre’d and they told us they would take care of it. They did. 

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First night, as is always the case, time to get to assigned table all the newness, etc, service can be a little disjointed.  
 

Not so much our table, but the other table, the service seemed to lag.  Meh, no biggie. 

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Last night, the opposite was the case.  We were seated at 7:45 (our assigned time), got some water and we linked the menu from our phones to pick what we wanted.  
 

We knew this was first cruise elegant night and while there are many dining options on the MG, this would probably be the busiest night. 

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Our other table had their dinner orders taken.   

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8:00 came and went. 

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8:05 came and went.  20 minutes, no bread, no orders taken.  

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8:10, other tables (not our other table) got their meals.  No orders taken, no bread.  

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8:15 our other table got their apps.  One of our group mentioned we were waiting. 

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Couple minutes later one of the assistant ding staff came over and took our orders.  33 minutes

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8:25 we got our bread.  50 minutes.  

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Our other table got their meals.  

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Other tables around us gor their desserts 

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8:40 we got our apps.   Some at our table asked if we could order drinks.  They took the drink orders (which came very quickly). 

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8:55 our food came.  
 

 

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After dinner the head waitress came over and apologized. 

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Wish she had done that earlier.  She told us their Were 6400 people on board, 1700 first timers, all good info and 100% not our problem. 

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Let me be frank (I am Jim, but I digress).  This team was going full out.  None of it was their fault.  Me and the hotel director have a discussion coming in the future.  

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On to Monday morning.  

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