brentm77
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2013
For unknown reasons, we eat dinner much earlier than most people our age. Frankly, we would fit in very well in those Florida communities that eat dinner at 4:30.
We are planners and almost always book so far out that getting early dining is a breeze. The one or two times we waitlisted, we were moved to early before the cruise. For the first time ever, we booked two cruises just after the paid-in-full date, which puts our odds of getting moved to early dining pretty low, I suspect. I will go to dining services first thing, but the success for that will depend on our boarding time, which may not be great.
I am curious how other early eaters fared with late dining? It won't be very helpful to hear from the naturally late eaters. We don't have young kids - in fact, our daughters are college age - but I know certain members of our family won't wait until three hours after our usual dinner time to eat, and that MDR dinners will be affected. My hope is that they eat light and then eat in the MDR as a family. But what was others experience? Was it as difficult as it sounds form some in your group? Did you end up liking it?
Frankly, if DCL had better non-MDR options, I would be perfectly content skipping the MDR's most nights, but they don't.
We are planners and almost always book so far out that getting early dining is a breeze. The one or two times we waitlisted, we were moved to early before the cruise. For the first time ever, we booked two cruises just after the paid-in-full date, which puts our odds of getting moved to early dining pretty low, I suspect. I will go to dining services first thing, but the success for that will depend on our boarding time, which may not be great.
I am curious how other early eaters fared with late dining? It won't be very helpful to hear from the naturally late eaters. We don't have young kids - in fact, our daughters are college age - but I know certain members of our family won't wait until three hours after our usual dinner time to eat, and that MDR dinners will be affected. My hope is that they eat light and then eat in the MDR as a family. But what was others experience? Was it as difficult as it sounds form some in your group? Did you end up liking it?
Frankly, if DCL had better non-MDR options, I would be perfectly content skipping the MDR's most nights, but they don't.