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Independence of the seas dining venues:

Included:

Main Dining Room - Breakfast, Lunch (non port days), Dinner

Windjammer Cafe- Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, Dinner 

Sorrento's Pizza-  Open 11 am to 3 am

Cafe Promenade - Snacks 24 hours

Soft Serve Ice cream station - Hours vary

Extra Charge:

Chops Grille

Giovanni's Table

Fish and Ships

Playmakers

Izumi Hibachi

Izumi Sushi

Chef's Table

Johnny Rockets

Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream

Sugar Beach Candy store

There is a diapers only area on Indy. There was a small slide to climb up and go down with a splash landing, as well as two splash animals and the splash tower. My 18 month old enjoyed that area. See photo from video posted above. 

On 10/3/2019 at 8:42 AM, mworkman said:

I must be the odd one here, prefer Blanton's on the rocks, a merlot or a good dark beer. The wife usually has rum and coke or mango margarita, that about as fruit of a drink that she will have.

Which ship had Blanton's? 

This is my plan (shut up liver, I bought the drink package).

Jameson whiskey and orange juice as an alternative to mimosa in the morning.

Corona/Bud/Heineken/any lager (aka sucky beer to some) beer in the afternoon with lunch.

Around the pool drinks Painkiller, Pina colada, Lava Flow, Mai Tai. 

Pre dinner/evening drinks, Gin and Tonic, Bourbon old fashioned. Wine with dinner.

After dinner options: White Russian, Margarita from Boleros, Bourbon on rocks or neat. 

New to try for me next cruise. Kraken rum with pina colada or lava flow, Raspberry Collins, BBC, Scotch before the 25% tariff takes affect. 

One way car rental from MCO pickup and drop off in Cocoa beach where they will shuttle to the cruise port. We used budget car rental to do this back in 2015 for just the two of us.

Does anyone have pictures of a more recent wine list?  Looking for Independence of the seas and/or Chops, Giovanni's Table. The royal app is great for food menus, but not wines. 

Indy embarkation day in April-19 had Playmakers open for snacks starting at 11am and lunch at Johnny Rockets open at noon. I will try those two options before heading to the windjammer.  Thank you Ashley and Jicko for your input. 

Booked a 4 night Indy cruise and have the UDP with the DBP.  I'm seeing a lot of uncertainty as to when and where and what is included on cruise boards. Does anyone have any first had experiences to share recently?  

My plan:

Embarkation Day 1:

Lunch at Chops (I've read not included as it is for Key guests only, or if you have a suite and can reserve ahead of time with the suite concierge). I am a diamond member and plan to use the diamond concierge (DC) to book all future bookings after the first assigned time and place. Backup plan, lunch at Johnny Rockets or Playmakers. All else fail plan: Windjammer

Dinner: Will be assigned on boarding day. Can this be changed once on board through DC to our preference? 

Late snack: Playmakers - is this available even if we had lunch/snacks earlier in the day?

Day 2 Sea Day:

Lunch: Chops 

Dinner: Izumi Hibachi. Is Izumi Hibachi included or not?

Late snack: Playmakers 

Day 3 Port Day:

Dinner: Giovanis or Chops depending on which one we didn't do on Day 1

Late Snack: Playmakers

Day 4 Sea Day:

Lunch: Izumi sushi

Dinner: Repeat of our past favorite, Chops/Giovanis/Izumi Hibachi (if included)

Late snack: Playmakers