Question about Anytime Dining on the Sapphire

[tiller]

I know that there are 4 anytime dining rooms on the Sapphire, with 3 exclusively anytime dining and the other with early traditional and late-seating anytime.

 

What I was wondering was, can you go to any of the anytime dining rooms, or are you assigned one based on your cabin location? Also, do the hosts at each dining room know what the wait is at the other rooms--can they say "well, it's 30 minutes here at Vivaldi but over at Santa Fe, you can be seated in 15 minutes." Finally, if you make a reservation (to be honest, I'm also very confused about that), do you have to make it for a specific restaurant or does the reservation desk assign one to you?

 

I've done anytime dining before but this is the first ship I've been on that had multiple dining rooms for it. Any tips are greatly appreciated!

[paul929207]

Assuming you have Anytime Dining, you can go to any of the dining rooms designated for it.

[arizonaperson]

I know that there are 4 anytime dining rooms on the Sapphire, with 3 exclusively anytime dining and the other with early traditional and late-seating anytime.

 

What I was wondering was, can you go to any of the anytime dining rooms, or are you assigned one based on your cabin location? Also, do the hosts at each dining room know what the wait is at the other rooms--can they say "well, it's 30 minutes here at Vivaldi but over at Santa Fe, you can be seated in 15 minutes." Finally, if you make a reservation (to be honest, I'm also very confused about that), do you have to make it for a specific restaurant or does the reservation desk assign one to you?

 

I've done anytime dining before but this is the first ship I've been on that had multiple dining rooms for it. Any tips are greatly appreciated!

 

You may go to any of the 4 dining rooms ANYtime between about 5pm and 10m approximately for dinner on The Sapphire.

I believe all the information will be in The Patter(newsletter).

When making reservations(can do it from your stateroom phone) you specify which Anytime dining room and time you want. Usually difficult to get 7-8pm reservation,not impossible, but Princess usually doesn't allow it.

As far as one dining room phoning another dining room to see what the wait time is, I doubt they will do that, but I guess you can always ask.

[Jasperdo]

The Vivaldi Dining Room should be Early Traditional until 7:30, when it will become Anytime. The other 3 will be exclusively Anytime all evening. The hosts of each AT Dining Room are in contact with each other. A few nights we went to one of the AT Dining Rooms, and it was full. They had one of the waiters escort us to a different AT Dining Room that wasn't full, and they sat us in there.

 

I can't answer your question about Reservations, because we never did that.

[bighairtexan]

Tiller, there's almost no need to have anyone from 1 dining room call another. ON the Sapphire, the AT dining rooms are on 2 floors, side by side and stacked. From one dining room you can see if there is a line at the other one in about 10 steps, then walk up 1 flight of stairs and stand there and see both the other dining rooms. It's very convenient. They serve the same food with the exception that each has one unchanging specialty item. The Asian (Pacific Moon I think) has a noodle and shellfish dish, the Santa Fe has fajitas, the Savoy has a grilled pork chops and the Italian (can't recall the name) has osso bucco. At least that's the way they had it last year.

[MsSoCalCruiser]

Tiller, there's almost no need to have anyone from 1 dining room call another. ON the Sapphire, the AT dining rooms are on 2 floors, side by side and stacked. From one dining room you can see if there is a line at the other one in about 10 steps, then walk up 1 flight of stairs and stand there and see both the other dining rooms. It's very convenient. They serve the same food with the exception that each has one unchanging specialty item. The Asian (Pacific Moon I think) has a noodle and shellfish dish, the Santa Fe has fajitas, the Savoy has a grilled pork chops and the Italian (can't recall the name) has osso bucco. At least that's the way they had it last year.

 

Are you able to order any specialty items if you have traditional dining?

[tiller]

Thank you to everyone for your tips and advice. I hope osso buco is still available, it's so hard to find that on menus these days.

[Putterdude]

Thank you to everyone for your tips and advice. I hope osso buco is still available, it's so hard to find that on menus these days.

 

It should be, it is the specialty of the house in Vivaldi every evening...it will also show up on the lunch menu from time to time in the MDR.