We have some questions about dinner in the MDR and we were wondering how HAL does things now, since it has been a few years away and the world has changed.
We are a party of 2 and our TA said open seating was the only available choice on our Rotterdam sailing. We were kind of looking forward to a nice shared table, like the good old days. Our cruises since COVID (on other cruise lines) have been almost exclusively 2-tops, sometimes with timed reservations made at home, sometimes with a virtual queue via the app.
Is open seating busy time still manager with pagers? or is it via the HAL app now?
My experience with open seating years ago was you had to go when they opened the doors or go fairly late to avoid a full queue of pagers.
I believe I saw that HAL is NOT currently doing advance timed reservations for open seating, correct?
With open seating, will we get a choice of a 2-top or sharing each night?
For fixed seating, is HAL doing anything different post-COVID? like more 2-tops or social distancing?