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Anytime Dining Question(s)
We are experienced cruisers (15) but have never chosen the Anytime
Dining option. However, friends we are sailing with this time on the Dawn Princess want to give it a try so have a couple of questions, please. 1. Pros and cons, did you like it or not, would you do it again? 2. Does this dining option follow the same dress code as Traditional Seating, ie. formal, semi-formal etc.? Your honest opinions would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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"~Florida Girl~" wrote in message ... | We are experienced cruisers (15) but have never chosen the Anytime | Dining option. However, friends we are sailing with this time on the | Dawn Princess want to give it a try so have a couple of questions, | please. | | 1. Pros and cons, did you like it or not, would you do it again? | | 2. Does this dining option follow the same dress code as Traditional | Seating, ie. formal, semi-formal etc.? | | Your honest opinions would be appreciated. | Thanks. | I just got off the Grand Princess, and PC (Personal Choice) dining is the way to go in my opinion. I originally had a late seating table for 2 with traditional dining. But upon boarding the ship I canceled that and went PC. There was a large group of us that had met on cruisecritic.com precruise so we ended up having dinner together every night (same time, same table just because of the waiter). There were nights we could add more people if we met more who wanted to join in etc. I've been debating a Carnival Cruise b2b with the Grand in April, but I'm so concerned that I'd dislike traditional dining, that we're probably going to do the NCL Sea b2b with the Grand (what a culture shock lol). But the Sea was our first cruise together and it's leaving the NCL fleet in April. Btw, the dress code is the same regardless of which dining style you choose. With the exception of the buffet and the "fast food" style eateries. If you want dinner with a large group. Only one of you need to make the reservation with the number of people you want. (We loved our waiter, so we had a standing reservation for a table for 8, a table for 4 and a table for 6 each night at 8pm with one night being 8:30. All tables being close enough to talk with the whole group) LES! |
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~Florida Girl~ wrote:
1. Pros and cons, did you like it or not, would you do it again? 2. Does this dining option follow the same dress code as Traditional Seating, ie. formal, semi-formal etc.? Anytime Dining works well for me. I have done this 3 times on Princess. I enjoy having dinner when it suits my schedule. I had dinner as early as 6:00 and as late as 10:00. If you want to see the shows in the showroom lounge, you have to arrange your dinner time according to showtime. I follow the dress code, unless I eat in the buffet. On one cruise, I ate in the buffet every night except one. Becca -----good luck making your decision... MOAGC http://www.motherofallgroupcruises.com/ Miracle in May http://www.cruisemaster.com/miracle.htm Canada - New England http://www.cruisemaster.com/carnivalFall.htm Caribbean Princess http://www.cruisemaster.com/caribprin.htm |
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Like you, we are experienced cruisers and have yet to try anytime dinning,
until now. We sail January 8 on Sun Princess and have confirmed "Anytime /Personal Choice" dinning. Last year on Grand Princess did it for us. We have always booked early seating and enjoyed our table mates company. Last year, first try at late seating on Grand, two couples bailed from a table of 8 and left us with a mother and daughter, very nice, but hard to sustain conversation. When Personal Choice was first introduced we felt it might ruin fixed seating and for us, it appears it might have. We sailed Dawn P. January, 1998 and had a nice time. You didn't say when you sail the Dawn but we will publish our review when we return and will share our first-time experience with Personal Choice. Bob Hersey BTW: I intend to bring my tux - as usual. "~Florida Girl~" wrote in message ... We are experienced cruisers (15) but have never chosen the Anytime Dining option. However, friends we are sailing with this time on the Dawn Princess want to give it a try so have a couple of questions, please. 1. Pros and cons, did you like it or not, would you do it again? 2. Does this dining option follow the same dress code as Traditional Seating, ie. formal, semi-formal etc.? Your honest opinions would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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"~Florida Girl~" wrote in message ... We are experienced cruisers (15) but have never chosen the Anytime Dining option. However, friends we are sailing with this time on the Dawn Princess want to give it a try so have a couple of questions, please. 1. Pros and cons, did you like it or not, would you do it again? 2. Does this dining option follow the same dress code as Traditional Seating, ie. formal, semi-formal etc.? Your honest opinions would be appreciated. Thanks. Anytime dining is totally disruptive to the evening entertainment activities on a ship. While your dining room may be traditional dining and you are locked into early or late entertainment, the rest of the ship of anytime diners are all trying to get into clubs and lounges at the same time. With anytime dining there is no orderly flow of main and late dining passengers with the main and late shows. Another thing to consider, there are only a fixed number of traditional dining seats available. You may choose traditional dining, but board the ship to find you have been place in anytime. Regardless of whether you are in the traditional or anytime dining rooms, the ship for all practical purposes in an anytime entertainment ship, and this means you will have to arrive at the lounges up to one hour early to insure a seat. That is our experience just off the Caribbean Princess. We will never again go on a ship that offers anytime dining. G&V Port Saint Lucie Florida |
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Short answers - in line
~Florida Girl~ wrote: We are experienced cruisers (15) but have never chosen the Anytime Dining option. However, friends we are sailing with this time on the Dawn Princess want to give it a try so have a couple of questions, please. 1. Pros and cons, did you like it or not, would you do it again? YES and YES 2. Does this dining option follow the same dress code as Traditional Seating, ie. formal, semi-formal etc.? YES Arlene---also a Florida girl |
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This is the most fantastic experience. One of the reasons why we have
been on 6 cruises with PRINCESS and again in Feb 05. The best thing is that you can choose who you want to sit with and when. Sitting at a table who are all 85+ means the conversation is boring. I don't care to talk about drugs and which parts of your body have been replaced every freakin meal !!!! We find a group of people we can assosiate with and we reserve our table every night. If we want to eat early because we are at sea or there is no shore tour we go at 6:00 PM. If we just get on the ship at 5:30 from a shore tour, we want to get to our cabin, clean up, change, get a drink from our fridge and wind down. We then go at 8:00. We can even reserve a table for two. Being stuck in an early seating means getting up so early for breakfast. Old people are up at 4:30 AM every day and start getting testy if they are not fed by 5:30 PM. GOD. It is a vacation and time to relax. It is my vacation and I am going to enjoy it the way I want. I love Princess for anytime dining and now that I am 5+ cruses (platnium member) perks are seperate lounge for boarding and embarking as well as FREE internet. |
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