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The website has these descriptions for kids' dining in specialty restaurants. I reserved dinner at Pinnacle with my 12-year-old but was charged full price, even though the website says children 12 and under are half price and the reservation system supposedly knows her age. What's also frustrating to me, from following the boards in the past few months, is all of these policies that aren't applied universally across all ships. Milkshakes in beverage package or not? Elite beverage now capped at 15 total, including non-alcoholic drinks, or not? Does the teens club age range start at 12 or 13 years old? Sorry for the tangent. We sail on the 24th (on Zaandam, though) so I would also be interested in answers from experienced cruisers.

"In 2019, cruise lines brought in about $1.5 million in revenue." (Monterey cruise tourism may come to an end (ksbw.com)) In 2019, there were 51k cruise visitors to Monterey. (Not so Crystal clear – Voices of Monterey Bay) That's not even $30 per cruise visitor on average in 2019. Not sure if this includes the City of Monterey's per-head tax. I wouldn't call that helping businesses make it through lean times of year, partly also because Spring and Fall actually are not that lean, especially during all the holidays and inland/Bay Area heat waves. In this case, I think the city figured the potential environmental impacts to the marine sanctuary outweighed the tourism gains from cruise ships. It's easier to control cruise ship access than to upgrade the decrepit infrastructure that leads to the frequent sewage leaks. And illegal dumping by cruise ships isn't like earthquakes: just because it hasn't happened in 20 years doesn't decrease the likelihood of it happening again in the future.

Agree, there is no pull down tab to select delivery to dining room or cabin at all when making a Pinnacle Grill reservation. I wonder if it's just a system note, kind of like with the Beverage Package purchase. The location for the Beverage Package is "Delivered to Stateroom" but obviously the beverages aren't delivered to the stateroom.

Interesting: I checked my Pinnacle Grill dinner reservations for my July 2024 Alaska Inside Passage cruise on the Zaandam and it also says "Location: Delivered to Dining Room." Does anyone have a Pinnacle Grill reservation that says "Location: Pinnacle Grill"?