Can someone explain to me how the Supper Club works, and is it really worth the extra money it costs? Would you include your kids - or just make it a grown-up thing? How much extra does it cost? We will be on the Glory for the 1st time. The other ships we've been on didn't have the supper club option. THANKS!
You will make reservations for the evening of your choice. Many times the supper clubs fill up quickly.
On Pride, the supper club charged $30 per person. It is more refined, in my opinion. There was a pianist. Fresh flowers adorned the tables and room. Better cuts and varieties of meat. Service is attentive and one on one. Attention is paid to every detail.
In all honesty, I would not bring young children into the supper club. It is more of a quiet, intimate setting.
I compare it to dining at Morton's or Smith and Wollensky's.
I would recommend it.
A'ndrea
Posts: 1785 | Location: New York | Registered: January 21, 2007
lharry, by all means do it at least once on your cruise. I haven't been on Carnival yet, but Princess has the same concept. The regular dining rooms are great; but the supper clubs are just exquisite.
And I would echo A'ndrea's advice about doing it without the children. They probably would not appreciate it, and it's a chance for a very special time for the two of you.
Posts: 3378 | Location: Costa Mesa, California | Registered: November 16, 2006
Unfortunately, I am a regular at the one in Birmingham. Mitchell is always our waiter and we always have table number 17 on the gazebo overlooking the koi pond. (Julie likes to throw bread over the side and watch the fish fight for it.) The average steak is 28oz. of sizzling, perfectly marbled, prime beef broiled at 1300 degrees with butter. aaaaaaaaahhhh Well, I guess dinner is decided for tonight.
Posts: 1426 | Location: birmingham, al | Registered: April 30, 2007
Originally posted by drlivingston: Unfortunately, I am a regular at the one in Birmingham. Mitchell is always our waiter and we always have table number 17 on the gazebo overlooking the koi pond. (Julie likes to throw bread over the side and watch the fish fight for it.) The average steak is 28oz. of sizzling, perfectly marbled, prime beef broiled at 1300 degrees with butter. aaaaaaaaahhhh Well, I guess dinner is decided for tonight.
I stayed at the Embassy Suites in B'ham many times last fall, while Vanessa was in rehab at Lakeshore. It is nice to stay in a hotel where Ruth's Chris does the room service. No wait for a table and a fabulous steak dinner served in your room!
I was on the Carnival Glory last November. The Supper Club on board the Glory is called "The Emerald Room". It is upstairs in the Red Sail Restaurant. The Red Sail Restaurant is the main cafeteria/buffet(casual dinning area) on the Lido Deck. Near the dessert buffet inside the Red Sail you will find the stairs going up to the Emerald Room. I did not eat in the Emerald Room, but I sneaked up those stairs and had a peek. It looked really nice. They do require reservations and charge between $25 to $30 per person/per visit (I do not remember the exact price but it was a flat fee). I talked to some of the passengers who did go. They said it was worth it. I was kicking myself for not going; but I was having such a good time in the main dinning room.
If memory serves me correctly, there was one of the Food and Beverage employees sitting at a table with displays about the Emerald Room somewhere on the Promenade Deck near the casino. That F&B Employee was taking reservations for The Emerald Room at that table.
If it is not like that during your cruise, I suppose you can always ask the Purser's Desk (a.k.a. Front Desk) where to make the reservations.
Sorry for the drift, but that was one of the best steaks I have ever had! We usually go down in April and it was recomended. I think we went to the one on International, but I get lost sometimes with the new roads. We were headed toward Kissimmee and took a left at where the Publix is at the intersection.
We are going to the Supper Club on the next cruise
Posts: 5497 | Location: South Carolina | Registered: August 22, 2005
What time do you dine in the supper club? Is it around 6:00 pm? If so, would you know a couple days in advance what the dining room dinner menu will be incase if it's something you don't want then you will know to make Supper Club reservations for that particular night.
I had the pleasure of dining at Ruth's Chris last night and I was wrong about the broiling temperature in my previous post. It is not cooked at 1300 degrees. It is actually cooked at 1800 degrees. Of course, just to be an oddball, my wife always orders the live Maine lobster. It is a nice presentation with the raised melted butter chafing dish atop a small tea candle. We had the mushrooms stuffed with crabmeat appetizer and the best lyonnaise potatoes that I have ever had there. What a meal!!
Posts: 1426 | Location: birmingham, al | Registered: April 30, 2007
Originally posted by simphhcc: What time do you dine in the supper club? Is it around 6:00 pm? If so, would you know a couple days in advance what the dining room dinner menu will be incase if it's something you don't want then you will know to make Supper Club reservations for that particular night.
The dining times are generally 6pm to 9:30pm when I checked into it on Glory. I am not sure how that works about what times you can request a reservation. Maybe someone knows.
