Pat King

Enjoying your daily updates. Is Reflections online yet?

Whole Lotta Love Led Zepplin cover among others. And the guitarist almost outdid Mark Knopfler!

If that was the plan, it worked. Now you have another underused dining space that used to be busy and fun.

Hard to find a superlative good enough for the band aboard. People start to dance almost from the first note. Sweet, personable, approachable band members, and great song lists. Mockingbird is the name. On a side note, Alfredo's is still serving really good food, but is deserted. We have been twice for dinner in 3 days, and were almost the only patrons there. The new policy does not seem to be working well.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly. Plus the move generated a lot of ill will. We used to love the vibe at Alfredo's. Now we are reconsidering future cruise plans.

Any update on this observation? On our 5 Sky Princess cruises, including 3 Trans Atlantics, we ate dinner there at least 4 times a cruise. We liked it as a less stuffy alternative to the MDR, at no additional cost, and we liked the proximity to the dancing and music in the Piazza. I know on future Sky cruises that the new charges for dining will change our routine. A real shame, in our opinion.

Let's hope they do reconsider. Alfredo's was always a fun place to go for a dinner when you did not feel like going to the more formal feel in the MDR. The pizza was really very good, and the staff liked working there, and it showed. (From experience, maybe 20 dinners there.)

I don't get it. The MDR is included in your fare. If it costs you to eat at Alfredo's, why would you not just have a good meal without a charge in the main dining room? Also, it would probably be less cost to Princess to feed you in the pizzeria thlan the MDRs. I loved eating at Alfedo's, but....

So, it costs to eat at Alfredo's. I would have thought it would be cheaper for Princess to have folks eating at a pizza place rather than the MDR, where they are going to go to save money. Achhh. What a shame.

We are booked on the November Sky Transatlantic. Can a fellow cruiser answer this? Alfredo's is still included in the cruise fare, like the main dining rooms, or there has been a change, and now is a specialty restaurant? If it is now a specialty restaurant, a real disappointment for us.

Hey, what about Alfredo's? Was that settled?

We were on a Trans Atlantic on Sky and were told that they had customers that ate at Alfredo's twice a day.

We think Alfredo's on Sky was almost the best restaurant, and the most fun. Why would they start charging extra when it probably costs less for Princess than the MDR? I hope it is not true that Alfredo's is not longer one of the free dining options.

Thanks a million to all the posters, and for the link. Wow. Now we think a Princess ship with a promenade and Alfedo's might be just the ticket. We sailed a lot on Crystal. We now have done 5 Sky cruises, and find we don't mind the size at all. It is almost always the crew and the attitude that makes us happy. And, the mini suite on Deck 8 of Sky seems palatial, is convenient to the wonderful Piazza, and gives us exercise if we walk the stairs to the upper decks.