Comments on: Royal Caribbean pushes the surcharge envelope with “steak fee”

By: Steak fee in the dining room? Really? - Cruise Line Fans: Cruise Reviews and Chat From Real Cruisers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:19:52 +0000

[...] Steak fee in the dining room? Really? Anyone ever run into this on a Royal Caribbean ship? Charging extra for "special" steak in the regular (no charge) dining room? Seriously? tripso.com | Royal Caribbean pushes the surcharge envelope with

By: why god hates me » Royal Caribbean Levies $14.95 Steak Surcharge [Royal Caribbean]

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:29 +0000

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By: glorya

glorya — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:47:08 +0000

If this is, in fact, a reality then RCL (and any other lines that think they can hoodwink us) can whistle a tune and I nor anyone I know will cruise with them again unless they come back down to earth. And if the other lines go along with this, well GOODBYE CRUISING. There are “all inclusive resorts” that can pick up the slack without the multitude of people vying for “first off” the ship. And this “Cruise Critic Message Board executive staff” better let these cruise ships know that we think their newest proposal to get money “stinks,” What is this board for otherwise? Can’t the “executive staff” ever, ever express the views of the board which, I bet, are against this latest tra

By: Face2Face » Blog Archive » Fees aren’t just for airlines

Face2Face » Blog Archive » Fees aren’t just for airlines — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:00:22 +0000

[...] to this report on Tripso, the main dining room at one line now is charging $14.95 for an “all-natural” steak. As [...]

By: Hapgood

Hapgood — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:06:51 +0000

But do they charge single-occupancy passengers $30 for a steak?

By: Janice Hough

Janice Hough — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:58:59 +0000

For anyone who was confused, sorry, this never meant to say you could not get any steak in the main dining room on Royal Caribbean without paying. This is a “better” premium steak. But I think it’s a very slippery slope. Most cruise lines have a few meals with fancier choices, say the welcome aboard and captain’s farewell dinners. And Royal Caribbean will generally, like many cruise lines, give you a plain steak or chicken or fish if you don’t like the regular choices. Have not heard good things though about their regular plain steak.

By: John F

John F — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:57:58 +0000

Carnival’s food has gotten better.

The bad link was when Cruise Critic was correcting the report.

It seems now that they are offering an ADDITIONAL steak choice in the main dining room which will be a premium steak with the $14.95 price.

Clear voice—how do you really feel about Royal Caribbean? If you are so against them and have been switching clients for two years (completely acceptable in my opinion if that is your business model) why are you on one of their Seminar at Seas?

By: wendy reinan

wendy reinan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:33:49 +0000

You mean I’m not the only one who thought RCCL food was TERRIBLE? I was on the Splendour in /07, in the MED., and was served ROTTEN, yes, ROTTEN lobster- with the vein still in. (The ass’t waiter concurred and offered me another while the WAITER just gave me an impatient look, as in STOP COMPLAINING!

By: Clear Voice

Clear Voice — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:03:08 +0000

Not to Worry, Let the meat Rot… Not only that, with Royal being the most expensive on the mass market lines, I have for the last 2 years successfully switched my guest to Princess. They used the say that Carnival had bad food. Have you sailed on Royal recently. Just came off a Seminar at sea on the Freedom. The food was the worst. Not mention the screaming about the added $15 surcharge for steak in the main dining room. We will bring Royal down to it’s knees like we did with Renaissance. There is only so much anyone can take. They think they have become God Like with their new ships.
They call it the wow factor. They might as well say, “people are stupid” give them “Ritz & Glitz” and we slip crappy food and service right pass the nose. That’s the WOW Factor. They almost destroyed Celebrity. Lets face it. Carnival’s business model is much better, their food on the actual cruise line, (Carnival) has become better then Royal’s and the deals are ten times better. You have to be fool or just want to waste money to book a Royal Caribbean ship.

By: Tony A

Tony A — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:50:11 +0000

RCCL has gone toooooooooooooooo far ! ! !

I suggest they keep the special steak fee for the speciality resaurants where it belong! !

The main dining room is part of the cruise. Your just a screwing around with happy campers. Passengers are fed up with being “hawked” all doing their cruise. The one they took to relax and free of extra charges.

This sounds like RCCL listening to the same “project manager”, who screwed up their fuel surchage implementation fiacso. Now they have a new position, “steak Fee “project Manager”. I vote for test failure. That will help customer satisfaction.