oceanvoyager_nyc@yahoo.com (Warren) wrote:
>I've heard similar slams on freestyle that you
>wrote in all caps - that if you can't get in to one
>of the restaurants immediately on-demand
>then what's the point of freestyle? But if the
>restaurant is fully booked - what would you
>have them do? How would you solve the
>problem?
Did I write that I could not get in immediately on demand??? No, I
wrote, I went so early in the morning that the young lady taking the
reservations had not even turned the menu page to that day. Did I write
that I demanded a certain time? No, I asked for a time, and would have
settled for a half hour earlier or later.
My conclusion was that although the concept was you could eat whenever
and wherever you wanted, the reality was that if you wished to eat
anywhere but the main dining room or the buffet in the Yacht Club, you
had to make your decisions on the first day. This did not meet my
expectations, or I felt live up to their concept.
What would I do? I would make a policy of either no reservations except
in the extra pay restaurants or at least no reservations except for
those made on the day you wish to dine in that venue, again except for
the pay extra venues. I noted there was a charge to make a reservation
and not show up at the one pay extra dining room, but nothing similar
for any free dining room. I wonder how many experienced NCL cruisers
made just in case reservations at Pasta and/or Chopsticks, but did not
show up depriving others of a choice that they would have preferred.
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