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Thank you to everyone! We have decided to buy a 3rd dinner package, but hopefully this thread is useful to others (or me in the future).

3 minutes ago, bluesea777 said:

If Plat+ dinner guest is #3, then you'll enjoy 4 dinners, and your other 2 guests will have 2 dinners each. 

Right. One possibility I am considering is using both simultaneously, so that all 3 of us enjoy 2 specialty dinners together, I lose off the other 2 "free" dinners and we go to the main dining room for other meals and don't pay any extra, if that is an option that NCL allows.

5 minutes ago, bluesea777 said:

@Sthrngary is correct.

 

Simply, you and 2 other people sharing a cabin ....

 

1)  You as Platinum + .... 2 platinum dinners (for 2) plus 2 promo dinners = 4 dinners.

2)   Guest #2 .... 2 platinum dinners courtesy of 1) plus 2 promo dinners = 4 dinners.

3)   Guest #3 .... zero dinners, therefore will need to buy a 4-dinner package.

 

Remember, as other poster stated, all dinners (Plat +, promo, package) are non-transferrable, and this means Guest #3 will need to stick to the 4 dinner package.

 

So, I've seen both on this thread. Is there reason to believe that the Platinum+ dinner guest has to be Guest #2 instead of Guest #3?
 

49 minutes ago, chingnael said:

On a slightly different note, I wonder why NCL would not offer free specialty dining to the 3rd and 4th person. The beverage package was included free (except for the gratuity).
I’m Platinum+.  I’ll just be creative using the Platinum dinners with our 3rd person.  I also have an unused dining certificate from a prior cruise, so that’s 6 free meals. 

It makes sense to me that they throw in the drink package for person 3 in that they automatically charge the 3rd guest $138 in gratuities for drinks on a 7-day cruise, and let's be honest, if they were not included, that 3rd guest is still drinking free one way or another.

As for the unused dining certificates for Platitum+, they will accept them on future cruises? I assumed the tickets were mostly for show and that the certificates are in their computer.

So, we have 4 free specialty dinners for 2. 2 of them are the promotion. 2 of them are from my platinum status. Only problem is that we have 3 adults. My question is:

What options will NCL generally let you do?
1) If I use both a promotional dinner and a platinum status dinner coupon at the same time, will that cover all 3 of us?

2) If 3 of us go to dinner, 2 order off of the menu and 1 of us gets nothing (or something small) at an ala carte place and shares with the rest of the group, do they allow that?

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