ablair Posted April 24, 2011 #1 Share Posted April 24, 2011 We prefer to make a dinner reservation at 7PM rather than early or late seating. NCL and Celebrity have been very good with this, but which other lines have this choice of dining? HAL claims to have that "dine when you want" but on our last trip it failed miserably and we ended dining nightly in the buffet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCruisers Posted April 24, 2011 #2 Share Posted April 24, 2011 We've never had a problem with "Anytime Dining" on Princess. :) Do tell what happened to you on HAL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ablair Posted April 24, 2011 Author #3 Share Posted April 24, 2011 We had 7:30 reservations for 2, but when we got to the main dining room, we were told if we wanted a table for 2, it could be an hour wait. Second attempt on night 2 went the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LHT28 Posted April 24, 2011 #4 Share Posted April 24, 2011 On Oceania we just show up at the GDR when we want & very seldom have to wait any more than 5 minutes Some lines seem to handle open dining better than others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted April 24, 2011 #5 Share Posted April 24, 2011 We had 7:30 reservations for 2, but when we got to the main dining room, we were told if we wanted a table for 2, it could be an hour wait. Second attempt on night 2 went the same way. I am not sure where the mix up is with HAL. They usually don't allow reservations between 6:15 and 8pm in their Open Seating plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kruizers Posted April 24, 2011 #6 Share Posted April 24, 2011 welcome to cruise critic hal allows reservations to be made between 5:15 - 6:15 and 7:30 - 9 the problem on hal is requesring tables for 2 -- once they have been used -- the stewards don't take time to clean the tables immediately for more people -- all too often the tables for 2 are used just once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ablair Posted April 25, 2011 Author #7 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Thanks for your responses. Obviously my agent and or HAL was not aware of the dining limitations as to time. It all makes perfect sense now. How can Celebrity pull it off so flawlessly??? Two recent cruises on them went without any hitch with dining reservations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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