Pirate Night

[lorimay]

Anyone on the November 13th Magic sailing out of Miami? I am trying to figure out which night is Pirate Night.
We are paid in full, but I don't see any info. anywhere.

 

[sethschroeder]

I would wait and then closer to the cruise ask if anyone from your cruise group is concierge and can ask shoreside the actual schedule.

1) Pirate Night currently is not being held only a Buccaneer takeover with dress-up in the MDR
2) Fireworks are occuring on split nights for the early/late dining
3) No cruises over 4 nights are taking place in the US either

Looking at old navigators I see pirate night on both night 3 and 4 across various cruises back in 2019/2020 so I think your best bet is having someone from concierge ask for a nightly schedule of dining/pirate night.

 

[lorimay]

I would wait and then closer to the cruise ask if anyone from your cruise group is concierge and can ask shoreside the actual schedule.

1) Pirate Night currently is not being held only a Buccaneer takeover with dress-up in the MDR
2) Fireworks are occuring on split nights for the early/late dining
3) No cruises over 4 nights are taking place in the US either

Looking at old navigators I see pirate night on both night 3 and 4 across various cruises back in 2019/2020 so I think your best bet is having someone from concierge ask for a nightly schedule of dining/pirate night.

I chatted with DCL this afternoon, they told me they didn't have the schedule up yet.
The cruise is 80 days away, all cruisers should have access to the scheduled events not just Concierge.

I just wanted to book Palo the night of the pirate menu.

 

[jrapps]

No way they are even thinking about schedules 80 days out. They can't even tell me for a cruise 9 days out if they are doing Halloween and which night it is.

Instead of asking which night is Pirate, ask them if the dining rotations are requestable yet. Whichever night is your restaurant duplicate, that will be you "pirate" menu (or non-rotation menu if they don't do pirate.)

For example, if the rotations are AERR, ERAA, or RAEE then the last night is your best bet for Palo night. If they are AEER, ERRA, RAAE, then the 3rd night is the best bet.

Edit: I realized not everyone might know what those codes mean. R=Royal Court, A=Animators, and E=Enchanted Garden (Those are on the Dream, Magic will have different letters) . On cruises over 3 days, you will duplicate one or more restaurants. So if you find out what the 3 rotation options are for the restaurants, you at least know which nights are a duplicate in the same restaurant to give you a better shot at guessing which night you want to skip it. Also, if your cruise is 5+ days, chances are the Pirate is NOT the last night. So if your rotations are say AERAE, then the 4th night is the one to skip. If it's AEERA, then the 3rd night is the one to skip.

 

[lorimay]

No way they are even thinking about schedules 80 days out. They can't even tell me for a cruise 9 days out if they are doing Halloween and which night it is.

Instead of asking which night is Pirate, ask them if the dining rotations are requestable yet. Whichever night is your restaurant duplicate, that will be you "pirate" menu (or non-rotation menu if they don't do pirate.)

For example, if the rotations are AERR, ERAA, or RAEE then the last night is your best bet for Palo night. If they are AEER, ERRA, RAAE, then the 3rd night is the best bet.

Edit: I realized not everyone might know what those codes mean. R=Royal Court, A=Animators, and E=Enchanted Garden (Those are on the Dream, Magic will have different letters) . On cruises over 3 days, you will duplicate one or more restaurants. So if you find out what the 3 rotation options are for the restaurants, you at least know which nights are a duplicate in the same restaurant to give you a better shot at guessing which night you want to skip it. Also, if your cruise is 5+ days, chances are the Pirate is NOT the last night. So if your rotations are say AERAE, then the 4th night is the one to skip. If it's AEERA, then the 3rd night is the one to skip.

Its crazy that you have no confirmation about Halloween.
I will tell you yesterday when I chatted with the CM about pirate night, he did reply that we would have Buccaneer night along with Halloween festivities while onboard.
Our cruise is a Merrytime, so that was irreverent to me but could be hope for you.

As a platinum cruisers its hard to adjust to this new, hopefully temporary.