Reservations - Tables for 2 on Royal

[kywildcatfanone]

Hi Folks,

 

Anyone who has recently been on the Royal, could you reserve a table for two in the anytime dining rooms each night? Would like to find a table I like and reserve it for the week. Some ships let you do that and some don't.

 

Thanks for any responses!

[HRPro]

Some passengers were able to do that on our Royal TA, but we didn't personally try to do that. We did often call first thing in the morning and book a reserved dining time for that evening. Always worked great and we only had to get a pager two evenings on our 18 day cruise, and those were nights that I failed to make a reservations.

[dorisis]

We had a table for 2 reserved every night on the Royal. It was very near the doorway. There seemed to be plenty of tables for 2.

[BillB48]

oooops!

Edited March 23, 2014 by BillB48

[kywildcatfanone]

Awesome. Thanks for the responses. Do you know if they had numbers on the tables in the afternoon of the 1st day? That's generally how I would pick my table, find the number for a couple I liked and then when I call, ask the reservation to hold that table.

[CharlesOK]

Sorry folks, I just don't get it. AnyTime dining and then you book the same table every night for your entire cruise for the same time every night. Somehow seems a bit unfair to the other AnyTime diners. Why don't you just book fixed dining? I especially disagree with this when it involves a larger party wanting one of the best tables at their preferred time every night. Defeats the purpose of AnyTime dining I think.

[Loonbeam]

Reservation policies are set by the MD individually for each cruise based on demand for that trip. In short, your experience may vary from even the cruise right before yours.

 

I have never seen an MD allow a specific table to be chosen. If you wish to guarantee a table for 2 at a set location, choose traditional dining. Even when they do make a set reservation, its not guaranteed to be in the same location (could be same section) as that table needs to be flexible for other AT diners to use.

[2pbears]

Sorry folks, I just don't get it. AnyTime dining and then you book the same table every night for your entire cruise for the same time every night. Somehow seems a bit unfair to the other AnyTime diners. Why don't you just book fixed dining? I especially disagree with this when it involves a larger party wanting one of the best tables at their preferred time every night. Defeats the purpose of AnyTime dining I think.

 

Any Time Dining means you can dine when you want to. Period. 5:30 doesn't work for us and 8:30 doesn't work for us. 7:00 is just right. Thus the Any Time Dining option.