Just off the Beyond a couple of weeks ago and stayed in a sky suite.
1. If you want a table for 2 next to the window you need to show up at 5:30 for early dining to make the 7:30 show. And by the way if you were not in the Theater by 7:00 you didn't get a seat.
2. They will try and seat you in the same section each night which meant if all the tables with two chairs where full in your section they would seat you at a table that one person has to sit on a couch not very comfortable for dinner.
3. We insisted on two chairs and that meant we might be moved to another section. The first time this happened dinner took about half the time and much better service.
4. The menu. We are just a normal menu with normal food type of people. I will explain that with what I told the folks there if the Roof Top Grill menu was in every dining room I would be happy. But I am sure we are a minority when it comes to the menu. There were a couple of nights that even having the availability of all 6 menus on the ship nothing sounded good to us and we just ordered the Cheeseburgers. Of the 11 nights we ate 4 nights Specialty 1 night Blu and 1 night Ocean view cafe.
We board the Beyond on March 11 and will dining in Luminae. Concerned about some of the descriptions on the menu. I had no idea what poussin was so this is what came up on the search. I shouldn't have shown that to the wife.
Looking forward to hearing your feedback from Luminae. We board on March 11 have been looking at the Luminae menus and not impressed by what we see but maybe its just the description that is throwing us.
Interesting video on YouTube this morning it had to deal with pre-paid gratuities. A ship like Celebrity Ascent with a sold out ship for a 7 day cruise collects $410,000. Icon of the Seas 7 day cruise almost $960,000 in gratuities.
Just off the Ascent. Several new choices but all at an up charge. Up Charge examples: Eagle Rare $8. EH Taylor $13 Jack Daniels Single Barrel $8
Basil Hayden $3 Whistle Pig $not sure. Woodford double oak $6. Would not be surprised if there is a Ultra Premium Drink Package in the future.
All the menu drinks in Eden were $3 up charge.