west coast cruiser Posted May 6, 2016 #126 Share Posted May 6, 2016 So Club Class dining will now be exactly like regular dining was 5-10 years ago!! :rolleyes: Sure sounds that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyVeteran Posted May 6, 2016 #127 Share Posted May 6, 2016 The new Suite Amenities includes "Exclusive Club Class Dining in the main dining room for dinner every day as well as breakfast and lunch on sea days." While not a separate dining room it is a separate section of a dining room. Also listed is "Complementary specialty dining mimosa breakfast (Daily)." The "Complementary specialty dining mimosa breakfast (Daily)" is not a new suite amenity. It is the Sabatini's breakfast that has been available for suites. The revised wording is because it is in the Crown Grill in those ships that have replaced Sabatini's with Share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Near PDX Posted May 6, 2016 #128 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Looking at the Alaska 2017 pricing the Club level mini-suites are only priced, for the cruise I looked at, $166 less than a Vista Suite. For us that is too high of a premium over the regular price of a mini-suite. For an extra $166 each we would be in a real suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredie Posted May 6, 2016 #129 Share Posted May 6, 2016 The "Complementary specialty dining mimosa breakfast (Daily)" is not a new suite amenity. It is the Sabatini's breakfast that has been available for suites. The revised wording is because it is in the Crown Grill in those ships that have replaced Sabatini's with Share. It says breakfast in the main dining room. That doesn't mean SHARE or Crown Grill or Sabatini's. It says, plain as day, that the suite breakfast will now be served in the MDR. Special suite breakfast in a separate special venue is now a thing of the past, according to the statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IECalCruiser Posted May 6, 2016 #130 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) The "Complementary specialty dining mimosa breakfast (Daily)" is not a new suite amenity. It is the Sabatini's breakfast that has been available for suites. The revised wording is because it is in the Crown Grill in those ships that have replaced Sabatini's with Share.I know that part is not new but just reworded because of the loss of Sabatini's on several ships. I included it because full suites apparently have two choices for breakfast on sea days, the reserved section of the DR or a specialty restaurant. That seems confusing [emoji32] Edited May 6, 2016 by IECalCruiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IECalCruiser Posted May 6, 2016 #131 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) It says breakfast in the main dining room. That doesn't mean SHARE or Crown Grill or Sabatini's. It says, plain as day, that the suite breakfast will now be served in the MDR. Special suite breakfast in a separate special venue is now a thing of the past, according to the statement.Not so. Full suite passengers have the option of eating breakfast in the reserved section of the DR on sea days with the Club Class mini's or they can have a daily specialty dining mimosa breakfast. Edited May 6, 2016 by IECalCruiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtb55 Posted May 6, 2016 #132 Share Posted May 6, 2016 It says breakfast in the main dining room. That doesn't mean SHARE or Crown Grill or Sabatini's. It says, plain as day, that the suite breakfast will now be served in the MDR. Special suite breakfast in a separate special venue is now a thing of the past, according to the statement. I read it to mean the same, but I guess we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphey Posted May 6, 2016 #133 Share Posted May 6, 2016 This is what is says under "complementary" for suites.....no change: Specialty Dining Mimosa Breakfast (Daily)** Plain as day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredie Posted May 6, 2016 #134 Share Posted May 6, 2016 This is what is says under "complementary" for suites.....no change: Specialty Dining Mimosa Breakfast (Daily)** Plain as day. Yes. But it doesn't say where. This is the confusing part. Both the mini clubs and the full suites will have a dedicated MDR place to have meals, including breakfast on sea days. It could be read that the full suite guests also get breakfast (with mimosa) everyday but in the dedicated MDR place where they would also eat on sea days. If the issue were just that SHARE took Sabatini's, they could easily have said "daily in a specialty restaurant" without specifying which one. They don't say where this full suite breakfast will happen--except on the Sun class ships where it says the breakfast will be served "in the suite." Has this always been the case with those ships, that they don't serve the full suite breakfast in a specialty restaurant? The only way anyone will know for sure is when it happens. I think Princess is being deliberately vague about this (and I may give them too much credit for that) so as not to upset the full suite guests too much as they begin to offer some of their former benefits to this new club class of minis. I guess we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphey Posted May 6, 2016 #135 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) It clearly says "Specialty Dining" and Daily. The reason is doesn't say Sabatini's is that it's not on all the ships anymore. On sea days, you will have a choice. Specialty dining is NOT in a MDR. Edited May 6, 2016 by Murphey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredie Posted May 6, 2016 #136 Share Posted May 6, 2016 It clearly says "Specialty Dining" and Daily. The reason is doesn't say Sabatini's is that it's not on all the ships anymore. On sea days, you will have a choice. Specialty dining is NOT in a MDR. I guess we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketMan275 Posted May 7, 2016 #137 Share Posted May 7, 2016 They do away with breakfast in Sabatini's and we'll do all our cruises on Holland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putterdude Posted May 7, 2016 #138 Share Posted May 7, 2016 They do? I never realized this, unless you're referring to their suite cabin as a dining section. . Sorry, me and my dyslectic fingers goofed, what I intend to say was, 'full suite pax already enjoy a seperate dining venue for breakfast'.:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraP Posted May 7, 2016 #139 Share Posted May 7, 2016 (edited) If they list them under the suite category then it should also give 2 cruise credits. Apparently the new category does give you 2 cruise credits because it is showing up that way in our cruise personalizer for our cruise on the Regal in Feb. 2017 . I originally thought it was an error but maybe not:confused: Edited May 7, 2016 by BarbaraP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally8 Posted May 7, 2016 #140 Share Posted May 7, 2016 We are sailing on the Island next Feb. in a suite so I called and talked to a Princess rep and asked if the breakfast in Sabatini's will still be available and they said yes it would be. I guess we will find out for sure on board. Bob fr TX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvmyrotti Posted May 7, 2016 #141 Share Posted May 7, 2016 It's so confusing in how they are listing these premium minis on the website. They now have the regular minis still listed in their own category (same as before), but now they are listing these premium minis in the suite category. I guess I thought they'd leave the premium minis in the mini category or would create a separate category for the club minis, like what Celebrity does with the Aqua class listing I think it's misleading to list these minis as suites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wehwalt Posted May 7, 2016 #142 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I read the language the same way shredie does, but I don't see as it makes a real difference as they can change the program at their whim and none of it would stop there being a loud outcry if they messed with the breakfast/specialty restaurant perk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredie Posted May 7, 2016 #143 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I read the language the same way shredie does, but I don't see as it makes a real difference as they can change the program at their whim and none of it would stop there being a loud outcry if they messed with the breakfast/specialty restaurant perk. That's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floridalover5623 Posted May 7, 2016 #144 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Sorry, me and my dyslectic fingers goofed, what I intend to say was, 'full suite pax already enjoy a seperate dining venue for breakfast'.:o With the changes coming about I though they started something new for the full suites.....not that it would affect me in the slightest. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
49er Posted May 7, 2016 #145 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Apparently the new category does give you 2 cruise credits because it is showing up that way in our cruise personalizer for our cruise on the Regal in Feb. 2017 . I originally thought it was an error but maybe not:confused: Only showing up as one credit for each of us on the Grand for April 2017. 49er Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IECalCruiser Posted May 7, 2016 #146 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I was just looking at a "Live" from the current 1-day repo from Vancouver to Seattle on the Ruby. The DaVinci DR on Fiesta deck 6 is usually early TD/late ATD but it is now listed as "Early Seating Enhanced Dining/late ATD. The Michelangelo DR is ATD all evening and the Botticelli DR is TD all evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredie Posted May 7, 2016 #147 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I was just looking at a "Live" from the current 1-day repo from Vancouver to Seattle on the Ruby. The DaVinci DR on Fiesta deck 6 is usually early TD/late ATD but it is now listed as "Early Seating Enhanced Dining/late ATD. The Michelangelo DR is ATD all evening and the Botticelli DR is TD all evening. That's interesting. No overflow early TD then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IECalCruiser Posted May 7, 2016 #148 Share Posted May 7, 2016 That's interesting. No overflow early TD then.It's only one day on one ship, but perhaps that is the case. We will need to wait for more feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cflutist Posted May 7, 2016 #149 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I am wondering if the quality of the breakfast will go down if the "Enhanced" breakfast is served in the MDR> Breakfast in Sabatini's is prepared and served from the Sabatini Galley. On port days when we ordered full breakfast in our suite, it must have come from the main galley because the scrambled eggs were horrible as if they sat on a steam table for 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IECalCruiser Posted May 8, 2016 #150 Share Posted May 8, 2016 (edited) I am wondering if the quality of the breakfast will go down if the "Enhanced" breakfast is served in the MDR> Breakfast in Sabatini's is prepared and served from the Sabatini Galley. On port days when we ordered full breakfast in our suite, it must have come from the main galley because the scrambled eggs were horrible as if they sat on a steam table for 15 minutes. If the information is correct, the "Enhanced" DR breakfast is only available on sea day for full suites and club class. Sabatini's or other specialty dining mimosa breakfast is for full suites only and is available on port and sea days. I fully agree with you that the breakfast in a full suite is not very good. The omelettes were watery, not under cooked egg but water, and luke warm. The breakfast sandwichs was no better, once again being luke warm at best with soggy English muffins. Both of those foods must have sat on a steam table for a long time and then on a tray waiting for delivery. Edited May 8, 2016 by IECalCruiser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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