I recently wrote about Royal Caribbean's decision to limit "Dynamic Dining" only to it's Quantum class ships here, and now this week we hear that competitor Norwegian Cruise Line will make changes regarding how they charge for their specialty restaurants.
Norwegian Cruise Lines was a pioneer in changing the dining concepts on cruise lines by introducing "Freestyle Dining" over a decade ago. No longer would passengers have to eat at the same time and at the same place every night. Along with this change came the introduction of "Specialty Restaurants". These are optional additional dining venues that cruisers can choose from instead of the main dining room on the ships. Typically, these restaurants are much smaller, feature a certain cuisine and charge a cover charge per person anywhere from $10 - $100 dollars.
Norwegian has now announced that they will be charging "a la carte" style in their specialty restaurants starting in 2016. My first thought is that this may be a welcome change for those who never quite felt they were getting their money's worth with some of the high cover charges. What are your thoughts? My last cruise on Norwegian Cruise Lines was years ago on the now gone "Dream" and they had just implemented "Freestyle Dining". Except for a few long waits, I really enjoyed the new concept at the time. We had enough choice to not need to use the specialty restaurants on that cruise.
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