Specialty Dining Reservations

[stellarose]

daughter was hoping for the cucina for embarkation lunch like we did on the breeze in 19.

[Earthworm Jim]

On 11/14/2021 at 5:20 PM, SNJCruisers said:

I don't make the rules, I just play the game.  If you have traditional late seating, you're fine, just check in at 800.  The only problem is if you have traditional early seating.  Then you have to shift your dining from 600 to checking in after 730 if you wish to go to Cucina or Chibang.

 

No shot at you intended in my comment. It just seemed odd that they would give preference to YTD for these specialty restaurants over traditional diners.

 

My only guess is the demand for YTD had surpassed the YTD room capacity, so they are trying to siphon some of those YT diners off to the specialty restaurants. Meanwhile, the traditional dining room had sufficient capacity, so they want to keep those diners in that dining room during prime dinner time.

 

The only problem with that theory is that Carnival certainly had years of data on what percentage of cruisers would choose which dining option long before Mardi Gras was built. So you'd think they'd have known how big to make each dining room.