Haven butler and specialty dining

[kelleyfarms]

We have cruised in Haven many times but have never had our Butler deliver meals to our stateroom.  My question is will our Butler deliver meals from specialty dining restaurants to our Aft Haven stateroom.  We have 4 specialty restaurant vouchers for each of 2 weeks on our Encore cruise and wondered if our Butler would deliver one of them. We don't want to see our dining vouchers go to waste and would love to enjoy in our stateroom. 

TIA. John

[gmbhardy]

Yes.

[kelleyfarms]

Thanks gmbhardy.  I thought that would be the case but was unsure.  I appreciate your quick response.  This will definitely make our cruise even that much better!

 

John

[BirdTravels]

1 hour ago, kelleyfarms said:

We have cruised in Haven many times but have never had our Butler deliver meals to our stateroom.  My question is will our Butler deliver meals from specialty dining restaurants to our Aft Haven stateroom.  We have 4 specialty restaurant vouchers for each of 2 weeks on our Encore cruise and wondered if our Butler would deliver one of them. We don't want to see our dining vouchers go to waste and would love to enjoy in our stateroom. 

TIA. John

Your butler will take your order in advance. And serve you as one complete meal or one course at a time. We opt for deliver it all at once and leave it on the counter in the room. Your butler does not go and run for each course, it is just kept in the butler pantry down the hall and you may be waiting a long time between courses if they are running orders for other rooms. 

[kelleyfarms]

32 minutes ago, BirdTravels said:

Your butler will take your order in advance. And serve you as one complete meal or one course at a time. We opt for deliver it all at once and leave it on the counter in the room. Your butler does not go and run for each course, it is just kept in the butler pantry down the hall and you may be waiting a long time between courses if they are running orders for other rooms. 

Thanks Bird!!  We would prefer the butler delivering all at once.  We wouldn't want him/her to have to make more than one trip.  Sometimes just like to have a great meal without having to dress for the occasion.  We know that butlers are very busy, especially around meal time.

Appreciate you taking time for your response.  Very helpful!

 

John

[European_CruiseGirl]

We have done this multiple times. It truly is nice to get the speciality dinner delivered directly to the suite 🥰 Make sure to order well in advance so the butler has time to plan, arrange and prepare 😊 The butler will be more than glad to do this. 
 

Once we felt like just grabbing some food from the Garden Café buffet and eat it in our suite. We ventured out to Garden Café, took what we wanted and carried it to our (non-Haven) suite. Our butler caught us when we were close to our suite and almost had a heart attack and started to tell we wouldn’t need to get food from Garden Café alone. We could have just rang him and let him know what we wanted from the buffet and he’d arrange it to us to our suite 😅 We never used this service though snd continued to  sneak still alone to the buffet to get stuff to our suite and felt like we were breaking the law somehow 🤣 Ah what a good memory ❤️

Edited December 14, 2022 by European_CruiseGirl

[ChiefMateJRK]

11 minutes ago, European_CruiseGirl said:

Our butler caught us when we were close to our suite and almost had a heart attack and started to tell we wouldn’t need to get food from Garden Café alone. We could have just rang him and let him know what we wanted from the buffet and he’d arrange it to us to our suite 😅

Other than Breakfast, a lot of us don't know what we want from the buffet until we get there and see what is being served.

[European_CruiseGirl]

24 minutes ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

Other than Breakfast, a lot of us don't know what we want from the buffet until we get there and see what is being served.

Yea exactly we neither 😁

Edited December 14, 2022 by European_CruiseGirl

[kelleyfarms]

Thanks everyone for all of your comments.  You have confirmed what I was hoping and appreciate all the advice.

 

John

[BirdTravels]

On 12/14/2022 at 2:37 PM, European_CruiseGirl said:

We have done this multiple times. It truly is nice to get the speciality dinner delivered directly to the suite 🥰 Make sure to order well in advance so the butler has time to plan, arrange and prepare 😊 The butler will be more than glad to do this. 
 

Once we felt like just grabbing some food from the Garden Café buffet and eat it in our suite. We ventured out to Garden Café, took what we wanted and carried it to our (non-Haven) suite. Our butler caught us when we were close to our suite and almost had a heart attack and started to tell we wouldn’t need to get food from Garden Café alone. We could have just rang him and let him know what we wanted from the buffet and he’d arrange it to us to our suite 😅 We never used this service though snd continued to  sneak still alone to the buffet to get stuff to our suite and felt like we were breaking the law somehow 🤣 Ah what a good memory ❤️

Haven/Suite guests are now "allowed" to carry their own food. On our cruise in August, we were told that we would be "breaking a law" if anyone caught us carrying our own food,,, and not having our butler carry it for us. One night, the Haven restaurant manager carried our desserts to our room, which was just outside the door of the restaurant. Another day, a waiter carried our left over sushi up to our room so that no one would see us with plates in our hand.