Genting Dream Dining Guide 2026-27: Restaurants by Deck, Menus, Timings & Prices

Four restaurants on Genting Dream are included in your fare — The Lido buffet on Deck 16, Dream Dining Room Upper (Chinese) on Deck 8, Dream Dining Room Lower (Western) on Deck 7 and Function 8 on Deck 5 — so you can eat well for three days without spending a cent extra. Everything else is à la carte: hot pot and teppanyaki from about SGD 60 to 100 a head, a food court from SGD 10, and drinks that are charged by the glass unless you buy a package. This guide lists every venue with its deck, typical opening hours, what to order and what it costs.

Quick answer: Included — The Lido (Deck 16 aft), Dream Dining Room Upper (Deck 8 aft), Dream Dining Room Lower (Deck 7 aft), Function 8 (Deck 5 fwd), and the Lido outdoor snack corner between meals. Paid — Umi Uma, Hot Pot, Bistro, Chef's Table and the Gelateria (Deck 8), Silk Road and the Lobby Cafe (Deck 6), Blue Lagoon (Deck 7). Drinks packages run SGD 15, 75 and 100 per person per night, service charge included.

Updated 21 September 2026 by the Singapore Star Cruise cruise desk. Venue decks, beverage package contents, gratuities and halal information come from StarDream's official Genting Dream Cruise Guide 2026 (v5), the ship brochure 2026 (v4) and the line's published onboard promotions. Per-person price ranges are typical guest spend rather than official menu prices, and meal times are the usual pattern — the daily programme in your cabin and in the app is always the final word.

Every restaurant and bar, by deck

The four restaurants you have already paid for

The Lido — Deck 16 aft

The main buffet, and where most guests eat most meals. The official brochure lists it as serving international and halal cuisine including vegetarian and non-vegetarian Indian dishes, on separate lines. Expect live carving and noodle stations, a Western corner, Chinese and Malay dishes, an Indian section, a salad bar and a dessert counter, with themed evenings on some sailings.

Eat here for: breakfast, a fast lunch, and children who want to choose for themselves. Avoid: 12:30pm and 6:30pm, when it is at its most crowded. Half an hour either side makes a different restaurant of it.

Between meals, the outdoor snack corner on the same deck runs through the morning, afternoon and late evening at no charge — hot bites, finger food and sandwiches. It is the reason nobody needs to buy room service on a short sailing.

Dream Dining Room Upper — Deck 8 aft (Chinese)

Chinese meals served as set menus, with a small self-service line for soups, salads and desserts. Breakfast here is dim sum and congee. It is table service, so it is calmer than the buffet, and no reservation is needed — you walk in during the serving window.

Dream Dining Room Lower — Deck 7 aft (Western)

The same format with Western menus: mains ordered at the table, bread, salad and soup from the buffet line. Guest reviews consistently rate the Western dining room's dinner above the Chinese one — honey-glazed chicken and slow-cooked pork collar come up again and again. If you only sit down to one proper dinner on a 2-night cruise, make it this one.

Function 8 — Deck 5 forward

Casual inclusive dining away from the main flow of the ship, and the quietest of the four at peak times. Worth knowing about on a full sailing when the Lido queue reaches the lifts.

One rule worth knowing: the inclusive restaurants are designed for one sitting per meal period. Guests report being charged a cover if they eat a second full meal in another inclusive restaurant in the same period. The snack corner does not count. If in doubt, ask at the door before you sit down.

Genting Dream dining times

These are the usual windows on a Singapore sailing. Times shift by itinerary — on port days breakfast starts earlier, and on a 2-night weekend the last dinner sitting can run later. Check the daily programme.

The first dinner sitting in the Dream Dining Rooms suits families with young children; the second is quieter and leaves the early theatre show free. Pick one on boarding day rather than arriving at 7pm and finding both full.

Specialty restaurants: what to order and what it costs

Prices below are typical per-person spend reported by guests and partner listings — not an official menu, and they move with what you order and drink.

Umi Uma — Deck 8 aft, about SGD 80–100

Japanese: sushi and sashimi, shabu shabu, and the teppanyaki counter where the chef cooks in front of you. The teppanyaki seats are the ones to ask for — it is dinner and a show, and children are transfixed. This is the specialty our guests most often say was worth paying for.

Hot Pot — Deck 8 aft, about SGD 60–80

Steamboat with a choice of broths, cooked at your table, with outdoor seating on the deck. Book the early evening slot and you eat as the sun goes down, which is the best table on the ship for the money. Good for groups; slow and messy with toddlers.

Silk Road — Deck 6 forward, about SGD 50–80

Family-style Chinese fine dining with set menus available — the venue for a birthday or anniversary dinner. Dishes are shared, so a table of four or six eats better here per dollar than a couple does.

Bistro — Deck 8 forward, about SGD 30–70

Western à la carte and set menus: steaks, fish, pasta and vegetarian options. The cheapest way into a specialty meal, and the easiest sell to anyone who is tired of Asian flavours by day three.

Blue Lagoon — Deck 7, about SGD 10–20

An Asian food court: bak kut teh, laksa, noodles, donburi. Open late, so it catches everyone after the show and the club. For under SGD 20 a head it is the best-value paid food on board.

How to book: reserve on boarding day. You can call the restaurant reservations extension from your cabin phone, book at Reception on Deck 6, or pre-purchase a dining package before you sail. Peak-night slots at Umi Uma and Hot Pot are gone by the afternoon of day one on a full sailing.

Drinks: bars, prices and which package is worth it

Drinks are not included in your fare. You either pay as you go or buy one of three packages, priced per person, per night, with service charge already included. Alcoholic packages are for guests aged 18 and above. This is what each one actually covers.

Which one to buy. Treat at SGD 15 pays for itself at roughly three soft drinks or coffees a day, and it is open to all ages, so it is the one that makes sense for children and non-drinkers. Deluxe at SGD 75 needs about six or seven beers or glasses of wine a day to break even — and note it does not include cocktails, mocktails or spirits. If cocktails are what you actually drink, the SGD 25 step up to Elite is better value than being surprised at the bar. On a two-night cruise, most couples we book are better off paying as they go.

Where to drink

• Bar City (Deck 8) — the main evening bar, live bands, wines and whiskies.
• Bar 360 (Deck 6) — atrium bar with performances overhead; easy meeting point.
• Tributes (Deck 8) — live music lounge for a slower evening.
• Red Lion (Deck 7) — pub with beer and sport, next to the theatre.
• Palm Court (Deck 19) — the quietest room on the ship, and the best sea view with a drink.
• Sun Deck Bar (Deck 17) and Pool Deck Bar (Deck 16) — daytime, beside the pools.

Onboard promotions, F&B credits and pre-booking

The line sells dining, beverage and entertainment packages before you sail, and the cruise guide says plainly that booking early on the official website unlocks better rates than buying on board. Two things are worth looking at:

• Onboard F&B credits — prepaid credit to spend at any paid venue, sold with bonus value on top (for example, a SGD 200 credit bundled with an extra SGD 50). If you already know you will eat at two specialty restaurants, this is free money; if you are unsure, skip it, because unused credit is not cash.
• Dining packages — prepaid meals at Silk Road, Hot Pot or Bistro, usually cheaper than walking in, and they lock in a table on a busy night.

Halal, vegetarian, Jain and allergies

Genting Dream has operated as an OIC/SMIIC standard halal-friendly cruise ship since 2022 — the only ship sailing from Singapore with that setup. In practice that means a dedicated halal line at The Lido with separate preparation and utensils, and a surau (prayer room) on Deck 5. Vegetarian and Indian dishes, including Jain-friendly options on request, are served on their own lines at the buffet.

For allergies and strict diets, tell us at the time of booking so it goes on your reservation, then confirm with the restaurant manager on night one. The kitchen handles this well when it has notice and poorly when it is asked at 7pm on a full sailing. Our halal and Muslim-friendly guide covers prayer times, the surau and what to expect meal by meal.

If you are in The Palace

Palace suite guests dine at the 24-hour Palace Restaurant on Deck 17, with complimentary dining, set meal entitlements at designated specialty restaurants, in-suite dining, happy hour drinks at selected venues, free-flow chilled juices, Chinese and Japanese teas and coffee through the day, and priority booking for Chef's Table. For a food-focused couple, those entitlements close much of the price gap to a balcony cabin. Suite grades are on our Palace page.

Eight things we tell guests before they sail

• Book specialty restaurants on boarding day. Reception on Deck 6 or the cabin phone. Peak slots are gone by the first afternoon.
• Shift your buffet timing by 30 minutes. It is the single biggest upgrade to your trip and it costs nothing.
• Take the second dinner sitting if you want the early theatre show, or the first if you have small children.
• Use the snack corner. It is free, it runs between meals, and it saves paying for room service.
• Ask for a window table at lunch in the Dream Dining Rooms — they are first come, first served.
• Do the drinks maths before you buy a package. Deluxe excludes cocktails; Treat is the one that suits families.
• Celebrating something? Tell the restaurant when you book. A cake and a song is standard and costs nothing.
• Gratuities are separate from all of this — SGD 27 per guest per night for Interior and Oceanview cabins, SGD 33 for Balcony and SGD 40 for Palace, waived under age two.

Is the food actually good?

In our 2026 guest survey of 5,927 travellers who booked Genting Dream through us, dining scored 80% — the lowest of the onboard categories, against an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5. The comments explain the gap: almost every complaint is about the buffet at peak hours rather than the food itself, and guests who used the Dream Dining Rooms or ate off-peak rated dining far higher. StarDream also took Best Cruise Line – Asia at the Travel Weekly Asia 2025 Readers' Choice Awards. The full scorecard is in our Genting Dream cruise review.

On board, connect to the ship's Wi-Fi and open the Dream Cruises Concierge or the StarDream app for that day's dining hours, show times and venue changes. It is free to use even without a Wi-Fi package.

Planning the rest of your cruise

Dining is easier to plan once you know the rest of your day: see what there is to do and when in our Genting Dream activities guide, compare sailing lengths in 2-night vs 3-night, and check current dates and fares on the Genting Dream cruise page. If you are deciding between ships, the dining comparison with the no-port alternative is in Genting Dream vs Disney Adventure.

About this guide

Singapore Star Cruise is an independent cruise travel agency with a booking team in Singapore and consultants in New Delhi. We book Genting Dream sailings every week, arrange dietary requests on our guests' reservations, and hear back from them afterwards — which is where the timing advice and the package maths here come from. Venue decks and package contents are checked against the current official documents; menus and hours change by sailing, so treat the onboard daily programme as final.

Sources: Genting Dream Cruise Guide 2026 (v5) — venue decks, beverage packages, gratuities, pre-booking advice; Genting Dream ship brochure 2026 (v4) — inclusive restaurants, halal options, Palace dining privileges; StarDream Cruises published onboard promotions page for beverage package contents and prices; Klook's Genting Dream dining guide for typical per-person spend; RailTravel Station's review of the inclusive restaurants; Cruise Industry News on the halal certification; Singapore Star Cruise guest survey 2026 (n = 5,927).