Dining question

[redwell]

I've just booked a cruise next year on apex we have chosen early dining can we dine in all four dining rooms or do we have to be on anytime dining

We like to eat early then go to early theatre

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[39august]

I believe it is open seating now on all E class ships. You can eat in any of the 4 dining rooms any night. 

[keesar]

10 minutes ago, redwell said:

I've just booked a cruise next year on apex we have chosen early dining can we dine in all four dining rooms or do we have to be on anytime dining

We like to eat early then go to early theatre

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On the Beyond, it was Anytime dining.  We were told to show up when we wanted to have dinner.  You can alternate dining rooms to experience different decors.  

[awhcruiser]

Its anytime dining only,

[Cruise till you drop]

18 hours ago, redwell said:

I've just booked a cruise next year on apex we have chosen early dining can we dine in all four dining rooms or do we have to be on anytime dining

We like to eat early then go to early theatre

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If you selected Early (traditional) dining, it is my understanding that you will need to go to the same dining room each night.

 

If you want to experience all 4 dining rooms, you will need to book “Select” dining.  But you will maybe not get same times each night and some times could be later

[jelayne]

12 minutes ago, Cruise till you drop said:

If you selected Early (traditional) dining, it is my understanding that you will need to go to the same dining room each night.

 

If you want to experience all 4 dining rooms, you will need to book “Select” dining.  But you will maybe not get same times each night and some times could be later

There is no traditional set dining on the E class ships any longer, however reservation systems has not been changed so passengers book thinking have a set time but they don’t. 

[jwlane]

Go where you want when you want and they will feed you.

[hcat]

they have made it more like a food court..pick your choice and line up.. we go early so hope that works out when we cruise on APEX . We prefer the 2 smaller dining rms

 

next up for us will be BLU on ASCENT so not anticipating issues..although many were abandoning Luminae on BEYOND...

[Cruise till you drop]

12 minutes ago, jelayne said:

There is no traditional set dining on the E class ships any longer, however reservation systems has not been changed so passengers book thinking have a set time but they don’t. 

That’s interesting to know.  I just checked a future booking and it does give me 3 choices;  Early at 6pm, Late at 8pm or Select (Anytime)

[vadell]

I booked Apex for next year and was told by telephone with Celebrity if I went for set late dining I could go where I liked at that time. 

 

I felt that this would be chaos so decided to change to anytime dining and reserve the restaurants of our choice.

[brzymom]

There are 3 choices for dining-early, late or select (anytime). If you have select you can make advance reservations in each of the 4 MDR's online under dining. I was told that they do try and push people toward early seating or late seating, but I just booked dining for all nights for my Apex 9/24 cruise and most time slots were wide open with lots of choices for dining time.

 

However I had not known about this until a few months ago for my 9/23 Beyond cruise-- and there were far fewer options when I booked each night there. 

[awhcruiser]

1 hour ago, Cruise till you drop said:

That’s interesting to know.  I just checked a future booking and it does give me 3 choices;  Early at 6pm, Late at 8pm or Select (Anytime)

Which ship?

[Cruise till you drop]

9 minutes ago, awhcruiser said:

Which ship?

Equinox in Jan 2024

 

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by Cruise till you drop

[hrhdhd]

55 minutes ago, Cruise till you drop said:

Equinox in Jan 2024

The two seatings have been eliminated on the Edge-class ships but not on the computer system. Equinox is a Solstice-class and should still have two seatings in addition to open.

Edited August 14, 2023 by hrhdhd

[jelayne]

2 hours ago, Cruise till you drop said:

That’s interesting to know.  I just checked a future booking and it does give me 3 choices;  Early at 6pm, Late at 8pm or Select (Anytime)

S and M class ships still offer set Early and Late.   It is just the Edge class ships that are all anytime, although the system hasn’t been corrected to remove set time Early/Late option.

[horseymike]

10 hours ago, jelayne said:

There is no traditional set dining on the E class ships any longer, however reservation systems has not been changed so passengers book thinking have a set time but they don’t. 

Thanks for this , we have experienced much confusion with this issue.

[horseymike]

10 hours ago, Cruise till you drop said:

That’s interesting to know.  I just checked a future booking and it does give me 3 choices;  Early at 6pm, Late at 8pm or Select (Anytime)

We had a 6 pm reservation on our last cruise for the entirety, when we arrived in our cabin there was a card on the bed saying our dining time would be at 8:30 every night.

After much hoopla with the maitre d , by the third night we had a table for the duration at 6 pm.

It was quite annoying to say the least.

[Cruise till you drop]

9 minutes ago, horseymike said:

We had a 6 pm reservation on our last cruise for the entirety, when we arrived in our cabin there was a card on the bed saying our dining time would be at 8:30 every night.

After much hoopla with the maitre d , by the third night we had a table for the duration at 6 pm.

It was quite annoying to say the least.

That would be very frustrating, especially as you had 6pm booked in advance

[horseymike]

Believe me , to say it was frustrating would be an understatement.

[PTC DAWG]

I don’t know when I will eat tomorrow, much less a year the next year or so…I don’t know how y’all do it. Kudos.