New to Princess Anytime Dining Summary

[Iamcruzin]

[quote name='caribill']It's called the "Cruise Answer Book" and can be downloaded from the Princess web site.

They used to have a paper version that was mailed to you for every cruise. It would be nice to still have a paper version that could be requested.[/QUOTE]


It doesn't matter what's published. Princess has a never say no policy when it come to anytime dining. After the first day they stop checking the sea pass.

[pcur]

We have used the equivalent of Anytime Dining on four cruiselines: RCCL, Princess, Celebrity, and HAL. It's the same issues on all of them. People who want to eat between 5:30 - 7:00 have wait times much of the time. That's the most popular times for dining.

We eat late, starting between 8:15 to 8:30, and have had to wait maybe 10 minutes [B][I]several times[/I][/B] on any of these cruises.

It was basically the same when we started cruising in 1973, only reversed. They only had traditional dining then, and everyone wanted to eat late. I remember one lady yelling at the head waiter because she couldn't get into late seatiing. Edited September 13, 2015 by pcur

[eandj]

[quote name='pcur']We have used the equivalent of Anytime Dining on four cruiselines: RCCL, Princess, Celebrity, and HAL. It's the same issues on all of them. .[/QUOTE]

The issue isn't as much a problem on lines that have a policy of not allowing trad. cruisers to step in line with anytime cruisers during peak hours.

[UandMe4Ever]

Traditional dining should stick with their time. If they did, and cards were really checked, there would not be so long a wait for anytime diners. They should NOT allow them in during anytime dining hours. Would save a lot of aggravation for the anytime diners and they could go "anytime".

I've said my piece.

Have a good cruise!

[Iamcruzin]

[quote name='pcur']We have used the equivalent of Anytime Dining on four cruiselines: RCCL, Princess, Celebrity, and HAL. It's the same issues on all of them. People who want to eat between 5:30 - 7:00 have wait times much of the time. That's the most popular times for dining.

We eat late, starting between 8:15 to 8:30, and have had to wait maybe 10 minutes [B][I]several times[/I][/B] on any of these cruises.

It was basically the same when we started cruising in 1973, only reversed. They only had traditional dining then, and everyone wanted to eat late. I remember one lady yelling at the head waiter because she couldn't get into late seatiing.[/QUOTE]


I didn't have to yell. In 1991 a fifty dollar bill spoke volumes to get me from early to late traditional seating.