Baked Alaska Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 We have the UDP for our Alaska southbound sailing. Purchased at $126/pp Black Friday sale. Question, can you tell me if there would be an evening where we should actually schedule a My Time Dining MDR reservation instead of one of the specialty restaurants? Side: We are planning on eating in port in Skagway and Juneau. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 I'm not sure why, but I suppose if you saw an MDR menu and really like one entree you could. When I had the UDP I figured I'm paying for specialty, so I'm eating specialty. There is always another cruise to enjoy the plain old MDR. tiny260 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny260 Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 In my planning I don't, because I plan on trying to get the full dollar value out of the UDP I can. For you I would recommend looking at the ship and finding out how many different dinning venues there are (Specialty restaurants) and how tolerant you are repeating some of those restaurants depending on ship. Example, on Liberty, only 3 specialty restaurants, I repeated some restaurants 2 and one 3 times. Coming up on Anthem I have 5 counting Coastal Kitchen (In a Suite) so again I will repeat some and the fill in with Coastal Kitchen. Baked Alaska 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted February 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 (edited) Just now, tiny260 said: In my planning I don't, because I plan on trying to get the full dollar value out of the UDP I can. For you I would recommend looking at the ship and finding out how many different dinning venues there are (Specialty restaurants) and how tolerant you are repeating some of those restaurants depending on ship. Example, on Liberty, only 3 specialty restaurants, I repeated some restaurants 2 and one 3 times. Coming up on Anthem I have 5 counting Coastal Kitchen (In a Suite) so again I will repeat some and the fill in with Coastal Kitchen. That sounds like the plan we are going to take. We are on Radiance, so no Coastal Kitchen. Was planning on approaching the dining as they do on DCL -rotational dine among Izumi, Chops, Giovannis, and Samba. I asked the questions just in case I'm missing something. We will be en suite on Adventure in 2020 and will Coastal Kitchen (it's a verb today!) that one. Edited February 18, 2019 by Baked Alaska clarification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny260 Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Baked Alaska said: That sounds like the plan we are going to take. We are on Radiance, so no Coastal Kitchen. Was planning on approaching the dining as they do on DCL -rotational dine among Izumi, Chops, Giovannis, and Samba. I asked the questions just in case I'm missing something. We will be en suite on Adventure in 2020 and will Coastal Kitchen (it's a verb today!) that one. If I'm on Symphony I probably would not have to repeat on a 7 night cruise, my Anthem cruise is a 9 night so I will have to repeat even if I went to the Solarium Bistro, I would still have to repeat, which is not a bad thing, it kind of forces me to try thing I might not otherwise try. Baked Alaska 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 18, 2019 Report Share Posted February 18, 2019 29 minutes ago, Baked Alaska said: We will be en suite on Adventure in 2020 and will Coastal Kitchen (it's a verb today!) that one. Not sure if you meant that you will eat in CK on that one, but there is no CK on Adventure. With UDP, I would not set foot in the MDR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baked Alaska Posted February 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Lovetocruise2002 said: Not sure if you meant that you will eat in CK on that one, but there is no CK on Adventure. With UDP, I would not set foot in the MDR. Noooooo!! What was I thinking? Something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted February 19, 2019 Report Share Posted February 19, 2019 If you have the UDP but find that there is a dish that you want that is being served in the MDR just ask them to bring it to you in whatever specialty restaurant you happen to be visiting the night they are serving it. We do this all the time. If we are in Chops the night they are serving lobster in the MDR we just ask the waiter to bring us a MDR lobster tail. No problem ! Baked Alaska 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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