Is early seating better when you are at sea?

[plumeria]

My husband and I always choose late seating, but our cruise Jan 2 to Hawaii will include 7 days at sea, so we chose early, It seems you will be on ship not in port so why wait until 8:30 to eat. My husband is not convinced this is a good plan, any ideas would be helpful, we still have time to change seating

 

Thanks

 

Plumeria

[newtocc]

My thoughts! My wifester is huge, she eats all day long, me, on the other hand, I drink!

 

 

Early seating just doesn’t cut it. she’s still too fat!

 

 

Late seating, she’s starting to look good, real good!

 

 

Of course, everyone is different!

 

 

Hope this helps!

[gkm]

Newt, shame on you!:eek:

 

We are always early seating by choice because during our normal life we don't eat dinner late. We've found the 6:30 a nice time to eat then you have the rest of the evening to play. The shows are usually at 9:00 and then usually there's some kind of "competition" game afterwards. Then it's on to music, drinking, and dancing. If the show doesn't interest us, then a nice walk on the deck, or time in the casino is always nice. I'm an early riser in the morning, so by getting to bed before midnight I can watch the sunrise. Over the ocean they are rather spectacular and a cup of coffee and a sunrise is a pretty special thing.:D

 

Garry

[Out&About]

Also remember that Hawaii does NOT do daylight savings time. usually the time difference between california and hawaii is 2 hours; during daylight savings time, the time difference is 3 hours.

 

personally, i prefer late seating since when in ports in hawaii, i always am off the ship for full day of activities. with late seating, i don't feel rushed after returning to the ship to prepare for early seating of dinner.

[Host Kewlguy]

Early seating is always crowded. Therefore you have stressed out cooks as well as stressed out waiters & waitresses. Late seating is more slower paced so you receive better service and better cooked food.

[Ine]

We prefer late seating, although at home we eat early.

 

During the days there is always so (too?) much food, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, sushibar at 6 pm etc., we wouldnot be hungry for early seating. And of course would then miss sushi.

 

Besides it seems the crowd is somewhat younger at late.

[boltnut55]

At home, I like to eat at 5:30 because I can get it out of the way and do other things, so I always choose early seating (6:30 is considered "late" to me). This past time, we didn't have a choice, so dinner was at 8:30, and it saved me! On this cruise, I decided to be good about exercising and really was. My time to exercise was some time between 5:00 to 8:00. Every day, either at 5:00 or at 6:00, there was a stretch class. I would either walk on the treadmill or do my strength training exercises (takes about 45 minutes) either before or after the stretch class. I was not able to do this exercising consistently at any other time. If we were out at sea, there would be activities I wanted to do. If we were at port, we'd stay out as late as possible. If I had early seating, I would not have exercised at all. Gained 10.5 lbs. despite the exercising... but within a week back, it all disappeared. That didn't happen the other time when I gained 7 lbs. It never came off until 2 1/2 years later when I joined WW.

 

Another advantage is that you don't need to rush to dinner on a port day. One night in Maui (2001), we missed our seating.