Specialty Restaurants on ships

The cow and I would never pay the extra $10-15 to eat at a specail
restaurant. We chow down five tmes a day and get an inside cabin, sneak in
"Jack daniels" Get drunk, and go to the casino to smoke(and we are both
seniors
"Nonnymus" wrote in message
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Having never used a specialty restaurant when cruising, I wonder how the
tipping works. Is there a tip built into the surcharge, such as with
drinks in a bar? If not, do you tip separately or are the waiters covered
by the tipping pool from the end of cruise tips being added on to the
charges?
Nonny
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Charles wrote:
In article , Nonnymus
wrote:

Having never used a specialty restaurant when cruising, I wonder how the
tipping works. Is there a tip built into the surcharge, such as with
drinks in a bar? If not, do you tip separately or are the waiters
covered by the tipping pool from the end of cruise tips being added on
to the charges?

The tip is included in the charge.


Interesting- then do you subtract that from the end of cruise tip for
the waiter and assistant waiter?

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In article , Nonnymus
wrote:

Interesting- then do you subtract that from the end of cruise tip for
the waiter and assistant waiter?

No.

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Charles

On Aug 31, 7:25?pm, Charles wrote:
In article , Nonnymus

wrote:
Interesting- then do you subtract that from the end of cruise tip for
the waiter and assistant waiter?

No.

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Charles

The end of cruise tip will go to your regular dining room waiter and
assaitant waiter and headwaiter.

Rosie

On Aug 31, 6:02 pm, Charles wrote:
In article , Nonnymus

wrote:
Having never used a specialty restaurant when cruising, I wonder how the
tipping works. Is there a tip built into the surcharge, such as with
drinks in a bar? If not, do you tip separately or are the waiters
covered by the tipping pool from the end of cruise tips being added on
to the charges?

The tip is included in the charge.

Most of the time though ... service is so good I still feel compelled
to leave extra ...

"number6" wrote:
Most of the time though ... service is so good I still feel compelled
to leave extra ...

We do, too. I waited tables in college, so I'm a sucker when it comes to
over-tipping good servers. Diana

rosie wrote:


The end of cruise tip will go to your regular dining room waiter and
assaitant waiter and headwaiter.

Rosie


Why, they did nothing for me.

Nonny
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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.


--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

You shouldn't never overtip, it makes the rest of us look bad(especialy
seniors)
"Diana Ball" wrote in message
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"number6" wrote:
Most of the time though ... service is so good I still feel compelled
to leave extra ...

We do, too. I waited tables in college, so I'm a sucker when it comes to
over-tipping good servers. Diana

"Diana Ball" wrote
"number6" wrote:
Most of the time though ... service is so good I still feel compelled
to leave extra ...

We do, too. I waited tables in college, so I'm a sucker when it comes to
over-tipping good servers. Diana


I think that anyone who ever depended on making tips to pay the bills is
usually a good tipper..... they know how much it means to count the tips at
the end of the shift, hoping you have enough to pay the bills.

I've waited tables, driven a cab and driven a shuttle bus and the majority
of my pay for all three jobs was the tips I made..... and looking back, I am
grateful for those who were generous. Back then, an extra dollar.... even
an extra quarter... went a long way.


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