Looks like HAL has discovered a new up charge to nickel and dime guests

Interesting analysis...however, I note a huge difference between what people SAY in cyber and how they react in the real world. The few times I've actually met folks Ive pounded keys with for any substantive length of time, they turned out vastly different across the dinner table or on adjoining barstools...course, they were on the financial blogs and we had some expensive interests in common. I have a different attitude than most of em anyway. greed kills. I suppose most of them are still maneuvering, or dodging coronaries....I cruise, and buy cars. and live out in the weeds.. and if I REALLY wanted a second entrée, I'd bloody well order it.

With as much food that I've seen go to waste, I am not surprised that they will charge.

Especially Chinese yuk yuk....I consider myself a true professional when it comes to that. they wont make much if anything off me. and, Im not heavy at all...

I am sure that this new policy will cut into their popularity. I know if I have a choice I would never chose a cruise line that charges extra for main dining room food. Different sized people eat different amounts of food. This policy almost discriminates against heavier people. Maybe they should start charging cruise fares based on weight?? The 250 pound person paying twice as much as the 125 pound person....just kidding, although this might actually be a fair way of charging people going to buffets around town! Joel

If memory serves, theres a 7.95 charge for room service. We've never used it, because we're always dining out, except for our morning "prebreakfast" on the balcony. 2 pots of coffee, juice, and fruit and Danish.promptly at 6:30..they usually hit it within 10 minutes either way. On all our NCL cruises, only ONE screw up..mebbe some kid yanked the order from the slot by the door. Free, NO delivery charge, not counting dropping a couple of bux on the delivery guy...who, btw, is usually in such a hurry that unless you have it laid out for him, he'll leave without it. This is a morning tradition for us on each and every cruise, and its always the same. If for some reason they start charging for it, well, I don't really mind the tipping, but this is just another nail in the NCL coffin. On the other hand, once one does it, they all will, those that haven't. And you know cruisers will get no sympathy either...the whole thing is a luxury item. Blasphemous? mebbe, but its the truth. (BTW, we use the buffet infrequently, but next cruise Im gonna look at the trays. Last time I was measuring the bump out balcony. She thinks Im nertz. probably true.)

Yep, have to wait and see whether they drop it or expand it and it starts to shop up on their other lines since the holding company does own many. I suspect that HAL is just the test guinea pig as it is the smaller of most of their lines and they are hoping to push it out across the board.

The only way we will "find out" is if they drop it. Unless someone in here can be a fly on the wall up in mahogany row. or takes a cruise and that charge isn't on the menu. what it WILL do is discourage some folks from ordering that second entree occasionally. Multiply that fleetwide, and they might be saving a buck three eighty. The only time I could be counted on to get a second entrée was the "old style" NOODLE BAR on NCLs older ships. Y'know about Chinese food...hehehehe...didn't do it on BREAKAWAY class ships and no plans to. Instead of a sit down restaurant (usually near TEPPANYAKI) they've moved it near the casino (which stinks) and removed tables and substituted lunch counters. which also stinks, but for a different reason. Pay more, get less. I can't comment on some of the other lines, but at the rate I'm going, Im going to be able to. IF I live long enough..

I think Holland will find out it will not be popular among their cruisers. So we see what they find out.