Nonnymus wrote:
>
> I guess the thing in a nutshell is that if a ship's main dining room
> serves excellent food with the anticipated service and variety, then if
> folks want to pay extra for a specialty venue, I don't have a problem.
> However, if a specialty restaurant(s) is pushed by the line and poor
> food or service in the main dining room is the alternative, then I guess
> I'd resent it deeply.
That is one of the main reasons we will not cruise with NCL again. They
push their specialty restaurants. The service in the main dining room is
chaotic because there are no set dining times. No way is it possible to
have a quiet meal when people are coming and going constantly. The
ability to be pampered by a wait-staff who anticipates your needs and
desires because they have been serving you every day is gone with
Freestyle seating.
Wanting a little ambiance and a quieter place to dine, we went to one of
the specialty restaurants only to find that they didn't keep their
reservations and the service was horrible. It wasn't just us on our
ship. My daughter had the same experience on another NCL ship and she
and her husband will not take another NCL cruise either.
We've begun cruising with RCCL again and love the dining room. We
intended to try one of the specialty restaurants on our last 11 day
cruise, but we were having such a delightful experience in the dining
room that we forgot about it. We're doing a 14 day RCCL cruise of
Australia and New Zealand in October so maybe we'll give the steak place
a try, but it will be just for the experience as we have no complaints
at all with the food or the service aboard RCCL.
I'm sure that there are reasons for Freestyle cruising, but dining
experience isn't one of them, IMO.
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Janet Wilder
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