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Anytime once it show as available in your app. Usually a few days after booking up to about 3 weeks before sailing

You do know that coffee drinks, sodas and waters are unlimited. Not counted against your 15. With a $30 difference between the plus and premier why pay for the premier unless you are going to eat many many nights in SD’s

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Sorry but the price of all specialty dinners is now $45. This is a recent change

Rarely go over 15 drinks a day, plus gives me my WiFi and grats. Don’t need the weird deserts and only go to a SD maybe 3 times on a 2 week cruise. I have no need for premier but at $30 less per day Plus saves tons of cash

Another reason I said “might”

Same here we just changed from Panama Canal cruise to a Hawaii cruise on the Grand in January once we found that 2 of our favorite bartenders will still on board for that cruise

$700 - $100 is still $600 in my book. I don’t know anyone who would have a problem spending $100 OBC on a 10 day cruise

15 days at $60 extra per day over plus. I would basically have to eat nearly every day in a SD to make it worth the money. For a short 4-5 day coastal it might make sense

Hawaii cruises RT from the west coast are at least 16 days. Even at 10-15 days the difference from plus is quite a bit. I can’t imagine eating in SD’s day after day especially when we have reserve dining

I also sail in suites and none of those things bother me. We bring our own pens, bring our own toiletries, can’t imagine why I would need a canvas tote bag and since we like cocktails always book with plus package. We absolutely love reserve dining, suite breakfast and 1 day laundry service

In cabins where the sofa sleeper blocks the balcony door when open. If someone is sleeping at the time you want to go outside you have to sneak around and maybe crawl over the bed. If bed is put back to a sofa there should not be an issue. Not familiar with this cabin just from knowing others like it

Those are the 2 things they seemed to be prioritizing as I read it

What they will offer you is OBC

Upgrade from plus to premier is $60 more per day per couple. That comes to over $3,200 on a 54 day cruise Is it really worth for some SD meals and not having to switch devices ?

If you want to pay an exorbitant fee one person could get the plus beverage by itself but that would cost a lot of money and it would not include CA or WiFi

I do not believe the unlimited SD has started yet so what you are seeing might not be the future

In fact my next 8 cruises all show the same

no when I go to reserve dining and click on say Crown Grille it shows dates and then says 2 with premier. I am sailing the Majestic in 4 weeks

Heck no I stay with plus. We rarely eat more than 2-4 times on any cruise in a SD. I get one free for the suite on embarkation night and pick up one or 2 more maybe even on 16-20 day cruises. An extra $60 for a couple just is not economical. Reserve dining gets me great service and some extra entrees. Most SD portions are just 2 large to eat there very often

I find it very interesting that the app has not caught up to the “new” premier. When I look at any specialty venue for my cruise in one month still says premier = 2 specialty dinners

We rarely eat dinner before 7:30 at any time so the hours aren’t a problem. However every cocktail party we have had people just sitting and talking to people they already knew. What we like about the lunch is the opportunity to meet and talk to new people

Wait till someone wants all the possible courses from Sabatini’s or Harmony ?

So what will happen when someone is told they can’t eat before 7:30 if they want to use their package ? I have heard many say they want to eat early so they can make the 7:30 show and go to bed by 9:00. The talk about extending hours is also a hard sell who wants to eat a steak at 3:00 or 10:00 ? Or use a $45 meal for lunch ? There are so many ways this could all fall apart but I guess time will tell

Again the demise of MTG lunches has been misrepresented. We had lunch’s twice on B2B cruises this month on the Grand. Others have reported them on other ships. There has always been a combination of cocktail parties and lunches depending on ship and captain even before future cruises took over the loyalty function