On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:17:23 -0700, LeeNY wrote:
>See...this is the part I don't get. You reserve a table for the main
>dining room to force yourself into a schedule...and this is why
>freestyle works so well?
We make reservations just to ensure that we have a table in the room
(Main DRs OR Specialty) that we want to eat at and at the time we want
to dine. It varies with each day--sometimes we really want to see a
particular show or attend a particular function, so we might eat
earlier; other days (especially after shore excursions), we tend to
like to eat later after a nap and a chance to process our pictures
and/or write a review of the snorkeling site we went to. There is no
regimented "the Dining Room opens at 8:15 and if you are not in your
seat by 8:30 you won't get any food!!". And, like #6 has commented,
sometimes it is fun to dine with new friends we have met on board. and
other times we prefer to be alone--just the two of us. It is very nice
to have the choice to make "a schedule" that suits our plans, rather
than have to follow the herd!! And, yes, the Conceirge will make
dining reservations for just 2 people for any night of the voyage in
any dining room (Main DR OR Specialty) at any time that you like (or
as close as possible to it) on any NCL Freestyle ships. This was not
Janet's experience on her one trip, but it certainly as been ours on
ALL of our seven voyages.
Although it is not the theme of this thread, we also like not having
to dress up unless we want to. Fourteen voyages on Celebrity ships
(1993 to 2005) were great fun in most respects, but lugging around all
the formal wear and having to dress up several nights on each voyage
finally got to be a bit tiresome, especially for Derek. On NCL, we
take along nicer things to wear on formal nights, but not the tux (for
him) or fancy long dresses (for me), unless we want to. For example,
we still put on the fancy formals for Christmas and New Year's Eve (if
we want to), but have skipped the really fancy clothes these last
couple of trips, settling for jacket and tie (for him) and nice pant
suits (for me)--more comfortable, and the "formal" portraits still
look just as nice!
Cheers,
Peg
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