My wife and I are thinking about switching to a 1 bedroom suite for an upcoming cruise and are interested in the ability to dine in the suite as opposed to the MDRs. Could anyone elaborate on this process?
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DISNEY FANTASY
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Suites can Oder hot food in your suite there will be either me he's in your room or via concierge or in concierge lounge.
Walt and Roy can Order from Palo dinner.
The others can order a hot breakfast same menus as the main dit down restaurant for breakfast and dinner you can order a selection from the items on those menus that night.
I did it but found our Palo meal a little on the cold side in our room.
It was nice to have a hot breakfast in room on an early port day but things like toast were cold by the time we got to them
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Thanks! If we wanted to eat every night in our room, how would we tip the servers and who do we tip? The MDR ones or the ones in our room?
DISNEY FANTASY
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You should tip the people who deliver it to your room, we did, we had an officer and a standard guy from room service and tipped both, ours came in three waves I checked it would be the same two and tipped them at the end.
Whilst you may not use the MDR that night they are still part of the team who serve you for breakfast and lunch on the ship collectively with other cruisers so your tip covers that and you should still tip them.
Ok, sounds reasonable. How much would you suggest tipping the servers in the room? Also, how would I get the tips to the MDR servers?
DISNEY FANTASY
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Tips for servers are debited to your stateroom account each day, normally you get a ticket last night and hand it to them.
Tipping room service is really up to you, if it's normally room service it's $1 or 2 per time up to say $5 or max 10, but for a full Palo meal I tipped more.
I understand about giving the servers their tips on the last night. I just wondered if there was a way to do it differently as we won't be in the MDRs at all. Just thought it would be weird for me to walk up to some people we never met and said, "Here's your tips." Even if I don't give them the envelope will they still get the tips?
DISNEY FANTASY
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Personally you will be missing a lot if you do not eat in the MDRs now if you do not hand the tip to them, it " should" get to them, but once I had one assigned to the wrong person, however if you do not eat there you wouldn't know.
Now if you really plan not to go tell Disney and they can release the table to someone else, however if your served food at breakfast, or lunch at a Buffett or MDR or snack point, you are still getting served by the overall food team which the overall tip covers.
Part of the Disney experience is eating in the MDRs there are shows in these the food is served hot, in suite the food is passable but not too hot and you loose the feel, it's ok for a night or a breakfast but not all cruise.
I appreciate that, but this will be our 5th Disney cruise and 4th on the Dream, and our first without our kids, so we're really looking for more alone/adult time. I've got nothing against the MDRs at all and have loved them (especially Animator's Palate on the Magic), it's just that staying in the suite for the first time, there are some things that my wife and I would like do experience, that we haven't done before. Also we will have just finished the Walt Disney World 10K on the day we embark and are really looking for some R and R, and sitting in a dining room with a bunch of other people is not part of that plan.
sweetpee_1993
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At this point I no longer feel the need to dress & go to dinner so in-room all cruise would totally be my thing. 
@durangojim , if you don't hand the little receipt over to your MDR servers on the last night they should still get their standard tips from you unless you specify differently or in the off-chance there's a hitch in the system. If you don't want to hand the little envelope to the servers don't worry about it. That's just a formality. Not a required step.
Happy cruising!
@durangojim , if you don't hand the little receipt over to your MDR servers on the last night they should still get their standard tips from you unless you specify differently or in the off-chance there's a hitch in the system. If you don't want to hand the little envelope to the servers don't worry about it. That's just a formality. Not a required step.
Happy cruising!
Thanks! It feels a little strange as it is when we give our servers the envelopes after we've been with them for 3 or 4 meals. I think I'd need to be dressed like this guy if I was going to hand someone a tip that I had just met and didn't really have any interaction with.At this point I no longer feel the need to dress & go to dinner so in-room all cruise would totally be my thing.
@durangojim , if you don't hand the little receipt over to your MDR servers on the last night they should still get their standard tips from you unless you specify differently or in the off-chance there's a hitch in the system. If you don't want to hand the little envelope to the servers don't worry about it. That's just a formality. Not a required step.
Happy cruising!
"I tip everybody!"
sweetpee_1993
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I'd show up in my bright red polka dot jammies, hand over the envelope, and simply say "I don't do dressing up."
On our recent Allure of the Seas cruise we ate the MDR twice and 2 of the upcharge specialty joints. We hit the dinner buffet once. Our favorite dinners by FAR were totally casual at Johnny Rockets. We don't enjoy "dressing" for the most part. Every now & then is okay but for more than a night or 2 I'd rather not. Too much work. If I sit for a long meal I'm more likely to over-eat when food does come out of sheer boredom. I'm not that into food. Or dressing up. I'd rather be relaxing!
On our recent Allure of the Seas cruise we ate the MDR twice and 2 of the upcharge specialty joints. We hit the dinner buffet once. Our favorite dinners by FAR were totally casual at Johnny Rockets. We don't enjoy "dressing" for the most part. Every now & then is okay but for more than a night or 2 I'd rather not. Too much work. If I sit for a long meal I'm more likely to over-eat when food does come out of sheer boredom. I'm not that into food. Or dressing up. I'd rather be relaxing!
I read your trip report, it was great, that ship was huge! My wife and I are really looking forward to the relaxing and enjoying some (many) adult libations and really doing nothing, except maybe for the martini and whiskey tastings.
sweetpee_1993
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Mixology. Mixology is your friend.
Very cool. Enjoy that kid-free relaxation. Don't do anything we would! LOL!