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Sent from my iPhone using Forums. Thanks for all the very helpful replies, I am not as familiar with this line as it has been a while! Thanks again! The only time we've ever had a wait at your time dining is on elegant night. It wasn't bad - but we got our cocktails first and set back and watched the fashion show We don't usually go to the MDR, but when we have we get there early within half hour after opening and have never had to wait for a table for 2.
If you go when everyone else goes, you may wait quite a while Go before 7 or after 8 and waits should be minimal! We have anytime dining in March. We are normally early eaters and early to bed so the get there early tip will be perfect for us.
Hopefully we can rest and not be up at 5 am on the ship because our work schedules get us up early and we just automatically wake up then. What time does main dining room open for breakfast? And dinner? No reservations are taken, so as others have said it depends on many factors.
One cruise we lined up at , at that point the line snaked completely around the Atrium already. Yes it was Elegant night, and we had to wait until nearly 7 for a table to open, which was luckily for us a table for 2. Other times we have arrived at and walked right up to the hostess even asking for a specific serving team and was sat immediately. There is no good "formula" to figure out the best time to have no wait no wait for the hostess desk or receive a beeper, except maybe by going later like after Port day Breakfast the main dining room usually opens about 1 hour prior for a early morning scheduled docking and closes 1 hour after, example docking at 8am the MDR opens for breakfast at 7 until 9am.
If the docking occurs later in the morning generally the breakfast hours are am. If docking later than noon a seaday brunch may be offered instead of traditional breakfast.
Seaday Brunch is a continuous meal service with both breakfast and lunch items available. Commonly the MDR opens at am until 1pm, and yes you may visit twice in 1 day, example go at 9 for breakfast items then come back at to order lunch. Breakfast Buffet continental breakfast starts at 6am but sometimes by they are putting out the cereal boxes and yogurts. Around 7am hot food service begins but sometimes the omelette stations don't open until Lunch generally starts at 11 am.
Coffee, hot or iced tea, and water are available from the self service beverage stations 24 hours a day. Orange and apple juice is available usually by 6am till around 10am, after that as the dispensers run out of juices they switch over to the lunch beverages.
Traditional set time set seating dining has 2 seatings, the early one at 6pm and the late seating at pm Alaska and Hawaii itineraries may vary. In general the main theater show offerings are centered around these 2 dinner times, with passengers attending the show about minutes after service is concluded.
Your Time Dining works like a popular land restaurant that does not accept call ahead or other reservations. The open seating dining will open its doors at pm and generally allows the last table to be sat at pm.
The normal procedure is to go to the hostess desk which is not always at the dining room entrance to give your name. If tables are available to your preference or you have a lack of preference you will be sat immediately.
If no table to your preference is available, but there are open tables you will be asked if you are willing to give up preference for immediate seating at an alternative type of table, example shared table instead one just for your party.
You will be able to eat together that way. Wait times for ATD can be lengthy, even during non-peak times. When we were on the Imagination last August, we had waits of 20 - 45 minutes when we went to dinner around 8pm.
We chose NOT to wait when they said it would be a ridiculous 45 minutes to be seated. That would have meant we wouldn't have been served until after 9pm! If I were traveling with a large group, I would choose fixed dining. That way, you know you will have a table ready and waiting for your entire group. Early is too early, late is too late, which is why it was nice when it was a Platinum perk and only limited to the amount of Platinum guests on any particular sailing.
From what I read above, with everyone having the option, some had been told Carnival messed up with this one. I was not aware that YTD had been a Platinum perk at any point. We first sailed in , though, so I'm not aware of anything prior to that. YTD does not take reservations, and I don't believe that they ever have. If your group arrives together, they will be seated together. The larger the group and the more popular the time you wish to eat, the longer the wait for a table.
The line on elegant night on Magic was a 40 minute wait. No booking number, cabin number. With a large group it'd probably be easier to do a set time with multiple tables. Yeah, it was. So if you wanted to go at or 7, etc. It doesn't sound like that will ever be a possibility anymore as I have seen nothing which says it's open to all but that Diamond and Platinum get preference.
They have a separate entrance to the YTD dining room. What that means is, you get preference of dining choice , not preferential seating for YTD. YTD does not and never has taken reservations. We prefer the YTD We are always there when they open, have to stand and wait a max of 10 minutes before led to a table. Formal nights there can be lines for longer, but that is because everyone goes to the formal nights We did YTD on our two most recent cruises, and i would say that even on formal night when the line starts before they open, we were never in line waiting more than 5 minutes.
We never even saw a pager. I'll be on the Breeze July 9th with my 2 girls 7 and We like the late seating. That way we can stay til 6pm on the island when at ports. Don't wanna be rushed back early to get dinner. We can always grab a snack at the other small restaurants if we get hungry while waiting. We normally eat at at home anyway.
If you group is 6 or larger, you would be better off with traditional dining. Large tables to sit everyone, table available when you go. ATD works really well for tops but not well for groups. Imagine trying to go to a chain restaurant on a weekend night with a large group; and doing that every night. Sent from my iPhone using Forums.
Yep, this. We had a group of 9 on our last Conquest cruise and all of our staterooms had requested YTD. The first night, we all showed up at the same time -- we coordinated the time via FB Messenger -- and we requested to be seated together. We were accommodated at a top and the hostess apparently made a note of our room numbers because the following night she already had them in her system.
We DID have to wait that night for about 20 minutes, since it was Cruise Elegant Night, but we had requested the same dining crew and we were able to get them. The third night we couldn't -- someone had just been seated at "our" table : -- so we had a different crew at a different top. The fourth night "our" table had just been taken, but they were able to accommodate our group with our preferred MDR crew at some tables pushed together in a nearby section.
In short, they really tried to work with us, despite our large group, and we were really happy with YTD. We've all requested it for our Vista cruise in October.
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