Room Service?

[Andrew DEREK UK]

what if they come by and you are not in your room, will they leave it your room?

No you have to be there to let them in

 

[mmackeymouse]

$2 AN ITEM and yes they love me!!!!!!!!!

Prompt service.

Has anyone tipped $1 for the first trip, and then received lousy service for the rest of the cruise?

I have actually read on here that if you do not tip CM's what they deem "enough," that your service will not be good.

According to Passporters, room service is $1-2, and I find that fair. If I order one small item, then tip $1, I just don't want to get bad service the rest of the way.

 

[mmouse37]

Has anyone tipped $1 for the first trip, and then received lousy service for the rest of the cruise?

I have actually read on here that if you do not tip CM's what they deem "enough," that your service will not be good.

According to Passporters, room service is $1-2, and I find that fair. If I order one small item, then tip $1, I just don't want to get bad service the rest of the way.

Not at all....there are many people who do not tip at all so they are grateful for whatever a guest gives them when they deliver the tray....and it is not always the same delivery person throughout the cruise.

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

$2 AN ITEM and yes they love me!!!!!!!!!

Prompt service.

I'm sorry Andrew but I personally think $2 per item is way too much. So if we get 5 cookies and 5 milks -tip $20? $2 per donut and per milk and per juice and per cereal for breakfast? no thanks...... LOL We're not the Rockefellers or the Kennedy heirs. LOL

 

[BibbidyBobbidyBoo]

Not at all....there are many people who do not tip at all so they are grateful for whatever a guest gives them when they deliver the tray....and it is not always the same delivery person throughout the cruise.

We only used room service twice on our last trip (once for breakfast and once for uncrustables to take on an excursion that day) and didn't have the same delivery person.
Although the delivery people are probably FIGHTING over who gets to deliver Andrew's room service. LOL

 

[Pirate at Heart]

I generaly trip $1.00 an item. $5.00 max. There is only 3 of us and rarely --if ever-- order more than that. I have alway had outstanding service.

 

[jbm02]

Not sure how we got so lucky...but here is our story -
My DS had heard about room service through his cousin, who had gone on a NCL cruise a few months before. So he was alllll excited about ordering room service. Since he was 12, we agreed that he could sign himself out of the Ocean Quest (well, actually all he had to do was page us to let us know that he was leaving and where he was going) and he would go back to the room, order his room service lunch, sit back and - as he told me later - pretend he was an adult while waiting for it. We left a bunch of $1 bills in the drawer with the instruction to give $2 to the server when delivered.
After the first such delivery, I was contacted by the room service manager. She told me that my DS was so excited while ordering that he had her staff laughing. She then told me that he had been selected as "Room Service Guest Of The Cruise" and that in additon to his daily orders, room service would bring us a special snack each evening. My DS is still talking about it - 2 years after the cruise! Each evening we'd come back to the room to find a different tray of treats - cheese and crackers, cocolate dipped fruits, a tray of cookies, etc etc. How incredible, hunh??
I don't know if there is always a "Room Service Guest" chosen or whether DS was so excited that they created this for him, but the DCL folks on the Magic really made his cruise.

 

[MrsJobba1]

Not sure how we got so lucky...but here is our story -
My DS had heard about room service through his cousin, who had gone on a NCL cruise a few months before. So he was alllll excited about ordering room service. Since he was 12, we agreed that he could sign himself out of the Ocean Quest (well, actually all he had to do was page us to let us know that he was leaving and where he was going) and he would go back to the room, order his room service lunch, sit back and - as he told me later - pretend he was an adult while waiting for it. We left a bunch of $1 bills in the drawer with the instruction to give $2 to the server when delivered.
After the first such delivery, I was contacted by the room service manager. She told me that my DS was so excited while ordering that he had her staff laughing. She then told me that he had been selected as "Room Service Guest Of The Cruise" and that in additon to his daily orders, room service would bring us a special snack each evening. My DS is still talking about it - 2 years after the cruise! Each evening we'd come back to the room to find a different tray of treats - cheese and crackers, cocolate dipped fruits, a tray of cookies, etc etc. How incredible, hunh??
I don't know if there is always a "Room Service Guest" chosen or whether DS was so excited that they created this for him, but the DCL folks on the Magic really made his cruise.

thats so great

 

[nokanda]

No you have to be there to let them in

so i guess that means you cant order something to be left in your room for when you get back from an outing....hope the wait isn't long, dont want to
be stuck in the room....

 

[RLccweems]

Not sure how we got so lucky...but here is our story -
My DS had heard about room service through his cousin, who had gone on a NCL cruise a few months before. So he was alllll excited about ordering room service. Since he was 12, we agreed that he could sign himself out of the Ocean Quest (well, actually all he had to do was page us to let us know that he was leaving and where he was going) and he would go back to the room, order his room service lunch, sit back and - as he told me later - pretend he was an adult while waiting for it. We left a bunch of $1 bills in the drawer with the instruction to give $2 to the server when delivered.
After the first such delivery, I was contacted by the room service manager. She told me that my DS was so excited while ordering that he had her staff laughing. She then told me that he had been selected as "Room Service Guest Of The Cruise" and that in additon to his daily orders, room service would bring us a special snack each evening. My DS is still talking about it - 2 years after the cruise! Each evening we'd come back to the room to find a different tray of treats - cheese and crackers, cocolate dipped fruits, a tray of cookies, etc etc. How incredible, hunh??
I don't know if there is always a "Room Service Guest" chosen or whether DS was so excited that they created this for him, but the DCL folks on the Magic really made his cruise.

That's a cute story.....

 

[devalsam]

How do I know what is included and not included?? My DDs are so excited about ordering room service so I imagine we'll be ordering once or twice but only snacks. I thought I read somewhere that snacks are not free but here I read that cookies and milk are. Any place to find a list of what is included and what is OOP?

 

[karibritt01]

Alcohol, soda, water, and pre-packaged snacks (m&M's, popcorn, etc) are charged. Everything else is free. There are cookies, donuts, mickey ice cream, muffins, etc that can be ordered for free. Basically anything on the room service menu except the packages listed at the end.

Found a pic... the whole left column, and the middle column through Oatmeal cookies are free. The rest is charged to your stateroom.

http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=12220054&postcount=30

 

[nokanda]

how long is the average wait...?

could you request them to just leave it in your room as you wont be there? we could leave the tip for them(in a envie or something)

thanks!

 

[KSDisneyDad]

Not sure how we got so lucky...but here is our story -
My DS had heard about room service through his cousin, who had gone on a NCL cruise a few months before. So he was alllll excited about ordering room service. Since he was 12, we agreed that he could sign himself out of the Ocean Quest (well, actually all he had to do was page us to let us know that he was leaving and where he was going) and he would go back to the room, order his room service lunch, sit back and - as he told me later - pretend he was an adult while waiting for it. We left a bunch of $1 bills in the drawer with the instruction to give $2 to the server when delivered.
After the first such delivery, I was contacted by the room service manager. She told me that my DS was so excited while ordering that he had her staff laughing. She then told me that he had been selected as "Room Service Guest Of The Cruise" and that in additon to his daily orders, room service would bring us a special snack each evening. My DS is still talking about it - 2 years after the cruise! Each evening we'd come back to the room to find a different tray of treats - cheese and crackers, cocolate dipped fruits, a tray of cookies, etc etc. How incredible, hunh??
I don't know if there is always a "Room Service Guest" chosen or whether DS was so excited that they created this for him, but the DCL folks on the Magic really made his cruise.

Awesome story!!

 

[maplemouse]

I see where several people order room service for food to package up and take on excursions. I was reading in the PassPorter that Disney does not approve of this and that in some ports it is even illeagal to do this. I'm sure that won't stop people from doing it, but I wondered if anyone had ever incountered a problem with taking the food off the ship?

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Not sure how we got so lucky...but here is our story -
My DS had heard about room service through his cousin, who had gone on a NCL cruise a few months before. So he was alllll excited about ordering room service. Since he was 12, we agreed that he could sign himself out of the Ocean Quest (well, actually all he had to do was page us to let us know that he was leaving and where he was going) and he would go back to the room, order his room service lunch, sit back and - as he told me later - pretend he was an adult while waiting for it. We left a bunch of $1 bills in the drawer with the instruction to give $2 to the server when delivered.
After the first such delivery, I was contacted by the room service manager. She told me that my DS was so excited while ordering that he had her staff laughing. She then told me that he had been selected as "Room Service Guest Of The Cruise" and that in additon to his daily orders, room service would bring us a special snack each evening. My DS is still talking about it - 2 years after the cruise! Each evening we'd come back to the room to find a different tray of treats - cheese and crackers, cocolate dipped fruits, a tray of cookies, etc etc. How incredible, hunh??
I don't know if there is always a "Room Service Guest" chosen or whether DS was so excited that they created this for him, but the DCL folks on the Magic really made his cruise.

Lol, thats cute, i thought you were going to say that he tipped them an obscene amount!!! and they called to give it back!!

We never got room service last time but we are going to try it a bit more this year.
Is there a charge for tea and coffee?( not a tip ) and can you pre order it the night before?

I am also impatient about food and also excited about fully inclusive room service!
I looked at the link for room service menu(thanks for posting that) I thought there was cheesy nibbles??

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

so i guess that means you cant order something to be left in your room for when you get back from an outing....hope the wait isn't long, dont want to
be stuck in the room....

They are usually very quick so you dont have to wait in long.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Lol, thats cute, i thought you were going to say that he tipped them an obscene amount!!! and they called to give it back!!

We never got room service last time but we are going to try it a bit more this year.
Is there a charge for tea and coffee?( not a tip ) and can you pre order it the night before?

I am also impatient about food and also excited about fully inclusive room service!
I looked at the link for room service menu(thanks for posting that) I thought there was cheesy nibbles??

Tea and normal coffee is free just tip and you can pre order a time

 

[Fivepin]

I see where several people order room service for food to package up and take on excursions. I was reading in the PassPorter that Disney does not approve of this and that in some ports it is even illeagal to do this. I'm sure that won't stop people from doing it, but I wondered if anyone had ever incountered a problem with taking the food off the ship?

I have taken food off from the ship without a problem several times. I've gotten the chicken strips from deck 9 and wrapped them in foil sheets and some fruit. I usually bring the individual foil sheet and ziploc bags from home.

 

[Fivepin]

I know this is off the topic, but can anyone point me to a thread about tipping at the spa?