By all means bring her (and toys, and books, and when older gameboys) to the dining room -- Carnival is a family line. I remember the waiters dancing and entertaining the kids. However, we never go to a nice restaurant without our nintendo ds's (or whatever age appropriate toy) -- if the service is long or there is a delay, out of mom's purse comes the video games. Away go the games when the food comes. Even so, we're only going to require our children to attend the first formal night -- then we'll let them eat casual if they want.
My concern is the Supper Club -- are small children allowed there? We're gong to splurge and pay the extra $60 for my hubby and me to dine there. I will be very disapointed if there are small children in this romantic place. And, in the past, I've found when parents are insensitive enough to bring small children to ultra fancy restaurants they are usually the ones that don't seem to notice or care when their children are loud and crying. I can imagine they woudl say, "I paid my $30 to have my kid here and so why should I have to leave." Please tell me small chldren aren't allowed here? (I'm not sure why anyone would want to bring their toddler to a night club anyway but you never know).
A bit off-topic: In our rare nights for a romantic dinner -- if the waitress sits us next to a loud family with small children I will quietly ask for another table. I don't bedrudge a family dining out, but sometimes (especially when we've paid a babysitter) we are out for some quiet dining without kids. The problem is if you are already eating and a family is then seated near you, then there is nothing you can do but hope the kids are quiet. My hubby used to walk the airplane aisles for hours at a time to keep our babies quiet on flights, so now years later I get annoyed when I watch unprepared families sit there with their screaming children for hours and seem to do nothing but the occassional bounce on the knee. We once went to a Chinese language movie with lots of martial arts fighting (not appropriate for small children) and there was a family there with small children and the worse part was that the small children couln't read the subtitles of course so the parents were reading them out loud to the children. We relocated to different seats but . . . .
So back on-topic: the fact that you, Marie, asks the question, tells me that you would be the kind of parent that would care and would be considerate and wouldn't ignore your daughter if she started fussing.
Does anyone know the rules about the supper club?
Would the waiters require a parent to remove a loud crying child?