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We are taking our first RCI cruise over Christmas. We usually cruise with NCL but decided to try something different. Initially, we did purchase a dining plan even though our ship only has three specialty options. We cancelled it for two reasons: 1. We wanted to use our dining plan on Christmas Eve and Christmas. They don't accept the dining plan those nights at the steakhouse. As a matter of fact, if you want to have dinner at that restaurant, it's an additional $99 per person on those two evenings. 2. If you use the dining package, you can't make reservations for the specialty restaurants until you get on the ship. We like to plan our meals based on excursions times so we don't want to have to fight for times and end up with 4:30 or 10:30. It doesn't seem to be much of a benefit for us like it is with NCL.

Thanks for the info! We just canceled our package and made reservations for Chops on Christmas.

Hello, We are doing our first RCI cruise over Christmas. We purchased a dining package and were told that we have to wait until we get onboard to make reservations. Is that usual? We are used to NCL and the dining package allows us to book reservations 120 days in advanced.

Hello all, Heading to Alaska the last week of August. While researching excursions, it appears most migrate in May-July. Anyone have experience with the tours in late August/early September? TIA

Hello all, Heading to Alaska the last week of August. While researching excursions, it appears most migrate in May-July. Anyone have experience with the tours in late August/early September? TIA