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terrydtx,

Thanks for the reply and also the suggestion. I will call Customer Service and see if we can get on a early dinner waitlist. It seems like (on the Eurodam) there are two different times for early dinner - and either one would be great with us.

I agree. Ask them to put you on the 5:45 waitlist. Your cruise is pretty far out and I imagine you will get it from what has been discussed on this thread.

 

I was on the Ryndam when AYWD went into place in Oct.07 and people were as dressed up as usual on a formal night. I wonder myself as time goes by if that will change.

lorekauf,

I always wonder that myself. Seems like the dress code is the first thing to go as a cruiseline starts to spiral downward. Just my opinion. We enjoy all aspects of cruising. We also have cruised on Oceania which doesn't have any formal nights. We enjoyed that also. Actually, all our cruises have been excellent and some of those were drop-dead fabulous!

Thanks again for the replies; I don't know why I'm a little anxious about HAL and the new dining policy. :D

We are an older couple (68/70) have just booked our 3rd HAL cruise, but the first with the option for AYWD.

My TA emailed back the confirmation and also that early seating was not a possibility and couldn't be waitlisted. We were startled because our cruise isn't until October 08. She did waitlist us for the 8:00 which is later than we prefer.

So we are wondering about AYW. We have always enjoyed our tables for 4 or 6 and the table staff has been a big part of the enjoyment. We hate to give up that traditional part of cruising, but maybe it's not all that different?

One question is about the formal nights. We do enjoy them and all the excitement of the formal evenings. How does that work with AYWD? Do people still follow the dress code?

We don't know a soul on this ship and we aren't traveling with another couple with us and I guess I'm just anxious about feeling like we don't belong anywhere!

Gosh, this sounds really petty, but I wanted to know ahead of time. So if you have experienced AYW, I would appreciated your opinion.