Mrs. Thomas Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Hello fellow cruisers! My mother-in-law is going with us on our cruise and her birthday is on one of the days of the cruise. Does the MDR or anyone else do special things for birthdays? I want to do something special but not sure what I can do. Ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JG1209 Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Somehow they knew it was my bday and they sang to me and gave me dessert. You could always decorate the room with a little something. Go to the Dollar Store and get a few things.. and get magnetic clips- most of the room is metal Hoski and Mrs. Thomas 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedNoodles Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Our room steward knew that it was my husband's birthday and left him a huge towel cake complete with candle. It was pretty awesome. I honestly don't remember if they did anything for him for dinner. Mrs. Thomas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melski94 Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 If you tell your wait staff, they will put a candle in the dessert and sing happy birthday. You can also have a cake delivered to your table by purchasing it at guest services (always double check with your waiter that they have it before your dinner). Once again they will put a candle in it and sing. I would bring decorations as the ones that you can buy on the ship are overpriced. I purchased a magnetic door personalized decoration on Etsy and put it on my son's door on his birthday. If your MIL is up for it, you could buy her a personalized birthday shirt and have her wear it that day. https://www.etsy.com/listing/611691301/cruise-shirts-ah-ship-its-my-birthday?ref=pla_similar_listing_top-3&frs=1 Mrs. Thomas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Va4fam Posted February 8, 2020 Report Share Posted February 8, 2020 Following...….we will be sailing on my birthday later this year and interested to see what transpires. I was asked during booking if we would be in the MDR that night so maybe they will do something. WAAAYTOOO and Mrs. Thomas 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiralqueen Posted February 8, 2020 Report Share Posted February 8, 2020 We were dining at Giovannis on the night we were celebrating my mom’s birthday (it was a week before her actual birthday, but I wanted to celebrate her on the vacation so I went with the one week before). I swung by the Giovanni’s hostess station a couple of days before to mention to them that we had a reservation and wanted to celebrate a birthday but wanted it to be a surprise. I tried to get them to have carrot cake which is my mom’s favorite cake. They said they weren’t sure if they could make that happen, but they would try their best. It turns out it wasn’t available, but our waitress wanted my mom to have something special so got her personal favorite dessert on the ship and brought over the passion fruit cake from 150 Central Park with a candle. It was really sweet of them to bring something over from a whole other specialty restaurant. They really will try to go out of their way to make things special for you if you give them advance notice. Mrs. Thomas, PRebecca, FoxboroCruiser and 3 others 4 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyK Posted February 8, 2020 Report Share Posted February 8, 2020 At the beginning of the cruise I mentioned my daughters birthday to the head waiter. He told me to make sure to come to the MDR on that day. After dinner they brought some dessert over with a candle on it, and him and others sang happy birthday to her. I also mentioned it to my cabin attendant and when we got back to the room from one of our excursions, he had the front door and the room decorated with balloons and other things. Mrs. Thomas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossdog421 Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 We had a birthday and an anniversary on harmony. Mdr sang birthday and an anniversary song (they were identical with a word changed out). Room stewarts gave us a tiwel cake and decorated the room with a package one of our traveling mates bought. Tell everyone everything lol Mrs. Thomas, SpeedNoodles and sabarwolf 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaosgirl426 Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 i was on Symphony last year for my birthday. i decorated my door, our waiter (forgot... but my tablemates reminded him by singing to me) brought me cake and a line of singing waitstaff.. and our room steward made us TWO towel animals. a mom and a baby elephant!! they were so cute! Mrs. Thomas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene Desmarais Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) I celebrated my 50th birthday on freedom OTS back in May 2019. We advised RCI of such during our booking . nothing really happened.. oh well. still thought, it was my 1st cruise and I loved it. On my next birthday cruise, I will buy a package and have the room decorated before I arrive... lol Edited February 20, 2020 by Rene Desmarais Mrs. Thomas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRebecca Posted February 20, 2020 Report Share Posted February 20, 2020 I think I read on Royal's site that over 50% of folks cruising are celebrating something, wow! My cousin got a towel cake from our steward for his birthday, it was the first I'd seen that and thought it was coolest towel creation! Mrs. Thomas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Thomas Posted February 21, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 6:03 PM, melski94 said: If you tell your wait staff, they will put a candle in the dessert and sing happy birthday. You can also have a cake delivered to your table by purchasing it at guest services (always double check with your waiter that they have it before your dinner). Once again they will put a candle in it and sing. I would bring decorations as the ones that you can buy on the ship are overpriced. I purchased a magnetic door personalized decoration on Etsy and put it on my son's door on his birthday. If your MIL is up for it, you could buy her a personalized birthday shirt and have her wear it that day. https://www.etsy.com/listing/611691301/cruise-shirts-ah-ship-its-my-birthday?ref=pla_similar_listing_top-3&frs=1 I LOVE the shirt idea!! I have a friend who can do things like that too. Thank you so much! I do think we will take some decorations. We will be in St. Maarten that day so I may get her something special while we are there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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