$31
Floor — about $217 a week (per person)
Dining Packages
Star of the Seas Dining Package Prices — Unlimited Dining vs Paying Per Meal
Star of the Seas dining package prices: Unlimited Dining runs $31–$62 and pays off only past 5 specialty dinners. Here's when to skip it.
Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas has been sailing 7-night Caribbean loops from Port Canaveral since her debut on August 31, 2025. We've tracked her Cruise Planner dining prices every day since early 2026 — across sailings booking into 2027 — so we can tell you what the packages have actually cost, not just what's on the menu.
Star carries 28 dining venues and debuts an immersive show-dining concept called Lincoln Park Supper Club. The menus and venues are easy to find. What's harder to pin down — and what this guide covers — is what the dining packages have actually cost, day by day, and which day of the week the price tends to drop.
This guide covers what the Unlimited Dining Package has tracked, what each specialty restaurant charges à la carte, where Lincoln Park fits, the timing pattern in the price, and the break-even math that decides whether the package is worth it.
Quick Answer: Star of the Seas Dining Package Prices
TL;DR| Option (per person) | Tracked low | Typical | Tracked high |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited Dining (per night) | $31 | $43 | $62 |
| 3-Night Dining Package | $111 | $148 (~$49/night) | $186 |
- The high is the full list price: on some days Star's Unlimited Dining has touched its $62 sticker — no discount at all, unlike most ships.
- Everyday specialty dinners run $38 to $59 a head: the Unlimited Package pays off if you'd dine specialty roughly 5 or more of 7 nights.
- Lincoln Park Supper Club is the exception: Star's headline show-dining venue barely discounts pre-cruise and isn't covered by any package.
What the Unlimited Dining Package Has Cost
For Star's sailings, the Unlimited Dining Package has hovered around $43/night — but on its worst days it has cost the full $62 list price.
The Unlimited Dining Package covers one specialty restaurant per night, lunch at specialty spots on sea days, and a 40% discount on bottles of wine under $100 — all for one nightly rate. It's the package most cruisers weigh against paying per restaurant.
$43
Typical — about $301 a week (per person)
$62
Ceiling & list — about $434 a week (per person)
Here is what makes Star unusual. On most ships the Unlimited package never gets near its list price — the "discount" is effectively permanent. On Star, the price has climbed all the way to its $62 sticker on some days, meaning no discount at all.
What actually matters is the gap between the floor and the ceiling. Across the sailings we track, the package has run from $31 to $62/night — double the price on the worst day versus the best, for the identical booking.
That typical week — $301 per person — is the anchor for every break-even decision below. As the table shows, the floor-to-ceiling gap is wide, and which end you land on comes down to timing, not the package.
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What Specialty Dining Costs À La Carte
If you're skipping the package, expect to pay $38 to $59 a head for the everyday specialty dinners — with two venues sitting well above that.
À la carte cover charges are how you'd pay one restaurant at a time. They also set the break-even math for the package, so they're worth knowing even if you plan to buy Unlimited. One thing the menu price hides: ordering à la carte adds an 18% gratuity to each cover — a $56 Chops dinner is really about $66 — which quietly nudges the break-even in the package's favor.
| Venue | Cuisine | Dinner cover | Sea-day lunch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Izumi (sushi) | Japanese | ~$38 | ~$33 |
| Giovanni's Italian | Italian | ~$44 | ~$18 |
| Hooked | Seafood | ~$52 | ~$22 |
| Chops Grille | Steakhouse | ~$56 | ~$22 |
| Izumi Hibachi | Teppanyaki | ~$59 | ~$38 |
| Chef's Table | Tasting menu | ~$93 | — |
| Lincoln Park Supper Club | Show-dining | ~$180 | — |
The everyday specialty rooms land in the $40s and $50s a head. The steak-and-seafood spots most people actually book nightly — Hooked and Chops — are that mid-band, and it's what most cruisers weigh against the Unlimited Package.
The lunch column is worth a look, because the package covers specialty lunch on sea days too — not just dinner. But sea-day lunch runs roughly half the dinner cover, so it's a genuine bonus rather than another full meal's worth of value. A sit-down lunch at Hooked or Chops saves you around $22, not the $55 a dinner there would.
The Chef's Table and Lincoln Park sit in their own tier because they're occasion meals, not nightly habits. The Chef's Table is a guided multi-course tasting with wine pairings — a once-a-cruise event for most people.
One catch the cover charges above don't show: the Unlimited Dining Package doesn't make every specialty meal free. A handful of venues and premium items still cost extra.
| What the package doesn't cover | The catch |
|---|---|
| Chef's Table | Not included — you pay it in full, package or not |
| Lincoln Park Supper Club | Not included at all — a standalone splurge |
| Izumi Hibachi | Dinner is included, but it can carry an onboard surcharge on top of the package |
| Chops Grille premium cuts | The standard steakhouse menu is included; premium cuts carry an onboard upcharge |
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Lincoln Park Supper Club
Lincoln Park Supper Club runs about $180 per person, and unlike the rest of the lineup, it barely discounts before the cruise.
Lincoln Park Supper Club is Star's headline new venue: an immersive, theatrical dinner-and-a-show experience. It's the dining story every launch article will lead with.
It's also priced like the event it is. We've tracked it between $170 and $200 per person, sitting around $180 most of the time — but it doesn't follow the usual pre-cruise discount pattern.
Most specialty venues are cheaper in the Cruise Planner than they are onboard. Lincoln Park is the exception. The pre-cruise price sits close to the onboard price, so there's no real savings in booking it early beyond locking in a seat.
And as the table above flags, Lincoln Park isn't covered by the Unlimited Dining Package — you pay it in full whether or not you hold one. Budget it as a standalone splurge, not part of your dining plan.
Package vs À La Carte: The Break-Even
At a typical $43/night, the Unlimited Dining Package pays off if you'd eat specialty roughly 5 or more of 7 nights.
The math is straightforward. The Unlimited Package's typical week runs $301 per person, and the everyday specialty dinners it would replace average $50 to $56 a head.
Divide the package cost by the typical dinner price and you get the number of specialty nights where the package starts winning. (Those are dinners; the sea-day lunches the package also covers are a bonus on top, not part of this count.)
Package vs À La Carte — by How Many Specialty Nights
2 to 3 specialty dinners
→ Pay à la carte, or buy the 3-Night Package (~$148). The Unlimited package won't earn out.
4 specialty dinners
→ It's a coin flip — the package and à la carte land within a few dollars of each other.
5 or more specialty dinners
→ Buy the Unlimited Dining Package. It wins clearly, and the gap widens with every extra meal.
The 3-Night Dining Package fills the middle. At about $148 per person — roughly $49/night — it's the right call for the cruiser who wants a few nice meals without committing to specialty every night.
For the full fleet-wide breakdown of how this math shifts by ship, see our Royal Caribbean dining package prices guide.
Dining is one of the two big pre-buys; the drink package is the other. We cover what Star's drink packages have actually cost in a separate guide.
When Star's Dining Price Drops
The Unlimited Dining price isn't random. In our daily tracking it firms up early in the week, then the cuts land Thursday and Friday.
Royal Caribbean prices these packages dynamically, but watching Star day by day reveals a rhythm: Tuesday and Wednesday moves lean toward increases, while Thursday and Friday are when the price gets cut — Thursday most of all. Weekends rarely reprice.
The practical read: don't buy on impulse midweek, when Star's Unlimited price is more likely climbing than falling. The discounts have landed on Thursday and Friday — the same weekly rhythm we see in Star's drink package, and across Royal Caribbean's fleet, where package prices tend to sit higher early in the week and soften toward the weekend.
It's not a guarantee for any single week, and the $31 floor doesn't show up every time. But anchor to where the price has actually been for your sailing: near $31 is the floor, and near $62 is the full sticker with no discount at all — so a few days of patience has a real shot at beating a midweek price.
How We Track This Data
Every figure in this guide comes from All Aboard Deals' own price tracking. Star of the Seas entered service on August 31, 2025, and we've monitored her Royal Caribbean Cruise Planner dining prices every day since early 2026, across roughly 70 sailings booking into 2027.
That spans roughly 92,000 tracked dining prices across 28 products, over more than 70 sailings. All package figures are per person, and reflect the lowest adult price we recorded each day.
As our tracking window grows, we'll keep this guide current. For the full cabin, season, and booking-window picture, start with our Star of the Seas pricing guide.
Our Cruise Price Tracker scores every Star of the Seas fare 0-100 against 8.6M+ tracked price snapshots — so you know whether the cabin price is fair before you start adding packages. For real-time package price alerts on your exact sailing, All Aboard Deals Pro does the watching for you — and if you book in CAD, GBP, EUR, or AUD, you can track Star's packages in your own currency so a drop alert reflects a real price move, not the exchange rate.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Unlimited Dining Package on Star of the Seas has tracked as low as $31/night, with a typical price around $43/night and a high of $62/night — matching Royal Caribbean's $62 list price on the priciest days. The 3-Night Dining Package runs about $148 per person, or roughly $49/night. All prices are per person.
At a typical $43/night, the Unlimited Dining Package is $301 per person for a 7-night sailing. The everyday specialty dinners average $50 to $56 a head, so the package pays off if you would eat specialty roughly 5 or more of 7 nights. For two or three specialty meals total, à la carte is cheaper.
Yes — the Unlimited Dining Package covers specialty lunch on sea days, not just dinner, and a 7-night Caribbean sailing usually has a couple of sea days. It's a real bonus but a modest one: specialty lunch runs about $18 to $38 à la carte, roughly half the dinner cover, so a sea-day lunch adds around $22 of value rather than a full dinner's worth.
À la carte specialty dinner cover charges on Star run from about $38 at Izumi sushi to about $59 at Izumi Hibachi, with Chops Grille around $56, Hooked around $52, and Giovanni's Italian around $44. The Chef's Table is around $93, and the Lincoln Park Supper Club show-dining experience runs about $180 per person.
Lincoln Park Supper Club, Star's signature immersive show-dining venue, runs about $180 per person, ranging from $170 to $200. Unlike most specialty restaurants, it carries essentially no pre-cruise discount, and it is not covered by the Unlimited Dining Package — you pay it in full either way.
If you plan to eat specialty most nights, pre-buying the Unlimited Dining Package usually beats paying à la carte onboard. But the pre-cruise price moves daily — across the sailings we track it has ranged from $31 to $62/night — so the day you buy matters as much as whether you buy early.
About the author
Graham H — Founder, All Aboard Deals
Graham has been cruising for over a decade and has sailed on 15+ cruises across Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian, and Virgin.
He built All Aboard Deals to track cruise prices the same way traders track charts — monitoring 29,000+ sailings and spotting fares that fall well below their recent averages.
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