Tipping for Dinner and other unknown fees??

[dcr]

By prepaying, do you mean overpaying your booking so that your onboard account would have a negative balance equal to the amount that gratuity will be charged later on? Or is there an option for you to ask the charge to show up on your account pre-cruise and pay prior to boarding?

LAX

Front loading your on-board account is a more accurate term. You just have sufficient funds on account to cover the tips.

 

[Anchors Away 2016]

Glad that it's changed in the comments (watched a minute of that video and couldn't convince myself to watch a 28 minute video of them if that minute was the example) (but I despise podcasts and videos...give me text!) but it's a pretty huge leap from seeing the gratuity on the folio and thinking BOTH that you're charged gratuity if you bring kids to the dining room (vs the info given pre cruise that each person is charged gratuity no matter what) AND that oceaneers costs money. Seems like they were double counting the charges and to get home and make a video about it without asking dcl when onboard seems a bit...much.

It's why I like message boards. If I say something wrong there will be 10 people right after explaining that I'm wrong. Helps keep the misinformation down.

I "watched" that video just now, on a background tab while reading other threads on this board, and I wanted to say two things:

1) I wish DIS'ers would make videos like this instead of these people, because DIS'ers are so much better informed.
2) I don't wish DIS'ers would make videos like this, because as Bumbershoot said above, I just prefer getting my info from texts and pictures instead because you can zoom in on the specific info you want, by thread, and get a bunch of feedback quickly from multiple people on the same topic.

If I took some of their suggestions as Gospel, I'd never know the other points of view that usually follow on here in just a post or two.

Now someone can feel free to disagree with me, thus proving my point!

 

[jrabbit]

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It's why I like message boards. If I say something wrong there will be 10 people right after explaining that I'm wrong. Helps keep the misinformation down.

That would be your SO, @PrincessShmoo and 8 other people

 

[jrabbit]

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Now someone can feel free to disagree with me, thus proving my point!

You're WRONG!!! no wait, that makes you Right!!!

OK, So you are Right .... ugh!!! that means you are WRONG!!!

I'm so Confused ... Uh, you're just OK - Yea, that works.

Shower .... Rinse .... Repeat .... When do I get off of this train!!! Don't get me started on the Never-Ending Story!

 

[Anchors Away 2016]

You're WRONG!!! no wait, that makes you Right!!!

OK, So you are Right .... ugh!!! that means you are WRONG!!!

I'm so Confused ... Uh, you're just OK - Yea, that works.

Shower .... Rinse .... Repeat .... When do I get off of this train!!! Don't get me started on the Never-Ending Story!

Mission Accomplished!

Now time out whist I think up some more deviltry...