Dinner times versus departure times

[Kroosin]

I just realized my early seating dinners are at 6:00 PM. That would normally be fine but we are in port until 7:00 or later 6 out of 9 days on our cruise. Does Carnival adjust the dinner times when this happens? If not, how hard would it be to change our seating to anytime or late?

[cruise_pirate]

Nope they do not. I prefer to eat early but on cruises we always opt for the late seating so we have more time if island time is later. we just get a mid afternoon snack to tide us over:)

[cruise_pirate]

Call and try to change your dining time, it may not be a problem if you still have some time to go before your cruise;)

[happy cruzin]

I just realized my early seating dinners are at 6:00 PM. That would normally be fine but we are in port until 7:00 or later 6 out of 9 days on our cruise. Does Carnival adjust the dinner times when this happens? If not, how hard would it be to change our seating to anytime or late?

 

No - they will stay the same. There are 2 assigned seating times and they can't adjust one without the other.

Have you considered Anytime Dining??

[shumdit1]

Depending upon when you sail you might be able to change to either. Second seating is usually the least favorite so there should be room. Anytime for a itinerary like this seems better.

[Racegirl6]

We always choose late dining on a cruise. There are plenty of snacks to tide you over. Our did thought it was so late, but she will see it works out in the long run.

[wrigley80]

That's why we never choose to do early seating. We always prefer to come back from a day in port and relax in the room, get showered and cleaned up and then head to dinner

[stlrboo]

We normally do 'late' seating, but have recently found 'anytime' to be a real nice option on other lines.. :) We are now going to try it on Carnival!:D

If it works as nicely as NCL and Princess, we will continue to do 'anytime' all the time! :p;)

[larkz]

Even if you happen to get waitlisted, you still have a pretty good chance of changing it once on board. However, the sooner you change, the better your odds.

[ano]

Hmm. Go to the Lido for dinner that day.

[Express Man]

That's why we love ATD, Never in a rush to make a selected time. Go when your ready early or late. I would try and swap to ATD before there are no spot's left. Or choose late dining.

[skittl1321]

If not, how hard would it be to change our seating to anytime or late?

 

Assuming they are still available, you can change them now with little to no hassle, just call. You can attempt to change your seating on the cruise, the maitre'd will accomodate you if s/he can. You cannot change them on the cruise for a single night (maybe if you got lucky and were a good tipper they'd let you, but even with a tip we couldn't get late diners into anytime dining for one night on our last cruise.)

 

If you choose set time dining and miss it, you always have the option of the Lido, room service, or booking the steakhouse.

 

We've missed dinner once (because we were in port at night, not during the day) and we chose room service that night.

[beachbum53]

Always in the past, we chose early seating for dinner. For the cruise we were just on, we chose Anytime dining. It worked out great for us. No more worrying about having to be ready for dinner at a specific time. And, as someone else mentioned, there's also the option of eating at the buffet. After all, it's a vacation, and vacations are supposed to be relaxing. It's so much more relaxing knowing you don't have to go eat dinner at a set time. I don't think we'll ever go back to choosing a set time for dinner.