Early Dining Time on Wonder - 5PM really? - How late can me show up?

[island lady]

To those that are worried about the large lunch they may have had that day, followed by early dining time....there is nothing wrong with simply having a light dinner on those days.  

 

Soup...salad..etc.   There are many times I have simply had a couple of appetizers or one with a salad.  There is no rule that you have to have a large full dinner with dessert in the MDR every night. 😉 

 

And there is always the WJ for later night munchies if they should happen to occur.  

[OCSC Mike]

12 minutes ago, island lady said:

To those that are worried about the large lunch they may have had that day, followed by early dining time....there is nothing wrong with simply having a light dinner on those days.  

I find myself in this situation a lot. Dinner can wind up being one of my smaller meals… especially after too many DL or SL snacks. 🙈

[island lady]

Just now, OCSC Mike said:

I find myself in this situation a lot. Dinner can wind up being one of my smaller meals… especially after too many DL or SL snacks. 🙈

 

You probably heard the old saying about dining....Eat breakfast like a Queen, lunch like a King, and dinner like a pauper.   Really is easier on old folks like I am not to have a huge dinner to digest late anyway.  😉 

 

 

[The Fun Researcher]

6 minutes ago, island lady said:

 

You probably heard the old saying about dining....Eat breakfast like a Queen, lunch like a King, and dinner like a pauper.   Really is easier on old folks like I am not to have a huge dinner to digest late anyway.  😉 

 

 

As an added bonus it makes the adult beverages more effective later in the evening. 😉 😄

[island lady]

6 minutes ago, The Fun Researcher said:

As an added bonus it makes the adult beverages more effective later in the evening. 😉 😄

 

😄   Indeed...Bucky loves his Drambuie after dinner most nights.  

[taglovestocruise]

33 minutes ago, OCSC Mike said:

I find myself in this situation a lot. Dinner can wind up being one of my smaller meals… especially after too many DL or SL snacks. 🙈

Love those DL chicken wings, easily have a dozen with a few drinks.  Then off to late seating or 8pm specialty, no wonder I gain a pound a day. Last combo cruise was 17 nights and I came home up 14 pounds. 

[OCSC Mike]

19 minutes ago, taglovestocruise said:

no wonder I gain a pound a day. Last combo cruise was 17 nights and I came home up 14 pounds. 

Thats what worries me about ever trying one longer than 7 nights. I typically gain 7-10 lbs on a 7-nighter. Several lbs. are water weight & come right off but still.

 

I try to lose a few in the weeks leading up to a cruise to help counter the impending gain.

[latebuyer]

Just be glad you are not on princess. They have eliminated traditional dining on their cruises and there is a huge long thread on it on cruise critic with many dissatisfied.

[island lady]

I am not looking forward to dining set up on the WC.  It is all MTD, no traditional dining offered.  Or at least that is what we have been told.  

[OCSC Mike]

6 hours ago, taglovestocruise said:

Love those DL chicken wings

You talked them up! There were jerk chicken wings in the SL tonight & I didn’t love the CK menu so I had about 8. Impressively spicy (as jerk should be but often times places tone down the spice).

[whocruiser]

On 6/6/2023 at 7:45 PM, latebuyer said:

Just be glad you are not on princess. They have eliminated traditional dining on their cruises and there is a huge long thread on it on cruise critic with many dissatisfied.

Good to know this, now I can totally ignore them when researching itineraries for my Doctor Who celebrity/fan voyages, as traditional late seating dining is a must have for the way we operate, anything else just won't work. Already swore off NCL for a similar treason, their traditional late seating is ludicrously late at 9:30, and they HAVE lost potential bookings from us at least 3 times in the last dozen years over that policy.

[maggie416]

We were on a back to back in May. had 5 pm dining, not a fan at all. for our first week if you didn't come until 5:30, it was ok, never rushed. The second week, another table and waiters, a different story. we were told we had to be there by 5:15 and were extremely rushed. Since MTD was changed this is how it works now. Just gotta go with the flow!

Marg