Re: Making dinner reservations on Norwegian


"Bill" <billrubin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Bill C wrote:

I still don't see how this is freestyle if you have to get up at 7am to
make reservations? I didn't even eat breakfast yet, how do I know what
restaurant and what time I want to eat dinner.

What restaurant and what time you want to eat dinner at THE
FOLLOWING DAY!!!

On our first and second NCL cruise, I could not figure out when I wanted to
eat that far in advance, and I didn't feel the need to as I was satisfied
with the food in the main dining room.
I think at that time (2004-2005), you could make a reservation for any time
on the cruise and could look at the menus.

And actually the first cruise was to Bermuda so I ate on shore a couple of
times. I didn't eat in a specialty restaurant until last year when I got a
free pass via the travel agent for the extra price restaurant on a HAL
cruise. The food was good, but I didn't really care for the experience as a
whole.

On the Pearl, there are about 6 NON-extra price restaurants, and I think we
ate in most of them.

We did not eat in any of the extra price restaurants. There was Cagneys
(steak $20 - seats 160), La Bistro (French $15 seats 129), Teppanyaki
(Japanese - seats 32), Sushi Bar (seats 50 - sushi, sashimi and Shabu-Shabu)
and Lotus Garden (Asian - seats 100)l

This is a link to the pictures of the breakfast menus and food, and the
lunch food.
http://www.photoworks.com/photo-sharing/shareSignin.jsp?shareCode=AB66332C4F2&cp=ems_shr_alb_pml&cb=PW

I haven't done dinner yet - I was almost finished organizing it, and I
inadvertantly clicked on the link to clear all the photos and lost it and
haven't re-done it yet.

There were two main dining rooms - Indigo (seats 304) and Winter Palace
(seats 558). We ate most of the time in those restaurants and I thought the
food was good. No need for reservations.

There was one main buffet - Garden Cafe - seats 390. We ate there, but I
found it difficult to manage the food and drink without a tray. I can't
speak to the quality of the food as we didn't eat there that often. Bob
preferred breakfast there, but there was no cranberry juice or V8 juice and
we don't care for orange juice.

The Blue Lagoon was an extremely under-utilized 24 hour restaurant which did
have a breakfast menu (with cranberry juice) in addition to the regular
lunch and dinner food. We ate there a couple of times. No reservations
necessary. Seats 94

I ate breakfast once at the buffet out by the pool after I went for an early
swim. They had rolls but no butter. One of the waiters went across to the
Garden Cafe and brought butter back for me.

We ate at the Italian restaurant (La Cucina - seats 92) once, and I wasn't
that impressed with the food. They wouldn't do pizza unless there were
several people ordering it, and that's what I really wanted. You had to
have a reservation for that restaurant although you didn't pay extra. The
service was pretty good, and the waiter took our picture with my camera - he
also took the camera out on the back deck to take a picture of the moon for
me and one of the pictures came out heart shaped. Don't know how he did
that exactly.

We ate at Mambo, the Tex-Mex restaurant - reservation also required. Seats
96 I really liked the food here. Bob had the Nachos Grande which was an
appetizer, but he said it would be enough for a whole meal, and it was.

We didn't eat at the The Great Outdoors - an outdoor restaurant behind the
Italian and Tex-Mex restaurant.


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