skrapngal Posted February 27, 2016 #1 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I have 2 Royal cruises booked for 2017 (so lots of lead time) and in both cases, I was unable to choose Traditional Dining (or Traditional Dynamic in the case of Anthem). What's up with that? My Radiance cruise was just published less than a week ago, so it's obviously NOT that traditional dining is full! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted February 27, 2016 #2 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I've read of no plans to drop traditional dining, but they do seem to block it off very early. Could be travel agents were given blocks of space with traditional dining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrapngal Posted February 27, 2016 Author #3 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I've read of no plans to drop traditional dining, but they do seem to block it off very early. Could be travel agents were given blocks of space with traditional dining. I'll keep checking, maybe it will open up. I find it odd that when I tried booking a Junior Suite on Radiance (to find if the price would be worth it), it offered Traditional Dining to Junior Suite passengers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted February 27, 2016 #4 Share Posted February 27, 2016 (or Traditional Dynamic in the case of Anthem)! How many more versions of DD can people call it? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted February 27, 2016 #5 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I'll keep checking, maybe it will open up. I find it odd that when I tried booking a Junior Suite on Radiance (to find if the price would be worth it), it offered Traditional Dining to Junior Suite passengers! Now that's one I have not heard. As if they are giving suite guests first shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minn0315 Posted February 27, 2016 #6 Share Posted February 27, 2016 We booked Oasis for February 2017 back in December. Crown Loft Suite. Travel agent could not get us early traditional dining. She told me it was fully booked at 14 months out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpayroll Posted February 27, 2016 #7 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Booked Allure last week for Mid January 2017. All that was available was MTD. I'll keep watching as i"m sure early and late is not already filled 11 months out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted February 27, 2016 #8 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Booked Allure last week for Mid January 2017. All that was available was MTD. I'll keep watching as i"m sure early and late is not already filled 11 months out. Could you get on a wait list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb at sea Posted February 27, 2016 #9 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Yes...get on the wait list, and check at the dining room on boarding day, if it still hasn't been confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsky Posted February 27, 2016 #10 Share Posted February 27, 2016 Not sure how accurate this RC agent was. I called to find out why the dining time I wanted wasn't available with so much time out at booking. He said they block so many seats so as not all of the popular ones are taken right away. He made it sound like they open up a certain amount, then will open up more later. Sometimes I get different answers from different people, so what it's worth, this is what I was told. There is a wait list as well. If you're using a TA, you can always have him call RC to see if there's an opening. Some things get done better than I can when my TA is involved. I'm a pretty pushy person too :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieDiva Posted February 27, 2016 #11 Share Posted February 27, 2016 When we booked in Oct 2014 for our upcoming cruise on the FOS, we could not book traditional nor could we be waitlisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squiffynimrod Posted February 27, 2016 #12 Share Posted February 27, 2016 (edited) Booked Allure last week for Mid January 2017. All that was available was MTD. I'll keep watching as i"m sure early and late is not already filled 11 months out. Which sailing? We're going Jan 15 with early traditional booked. I check the website frequently for changes in pricing. Early seating disappeared a long time ago, then late seating followed. But this week early seating showed up again. EDIT: today it's late traditional available only. No early or MTD. Edited February 27, 2016 by squiffynimrod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted February 27, 2016 #13 Share Posted February 27, 2016 When we booked in Oct 2014 for our upcoming cruise on the FOS, we could not book traditional nor could we be waitlisted. Just seems so odd that there would not be a wait list that far out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slyster Posted February 27, 2016 #14 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I booked June 2017 and I was given the choice of early or late traditional dining (as well as MTD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelblu Posted February 27, 2016 #15 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I have 2 Royal cruises booked for 2017 (so lots of lead time) and in both cases, I was unable to choose Traditional Dining (or Traditional Dynamic in the case of Anthem). What's up with that? My Radiance cruise was just published less than a week ago, so it's obviously NOT that traditional dining is full! I've got 3 cruises booked and all have confirmed traditional dining/dd classic Oasis( 3/26) booked via RCL, Anthem (8/16) and Navigator (2/17) booked via a TA. Why don't you make request via "rcldining@rccl.com". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpayroll Posted February 27, 2016 #16 Share Posted February 27, 2016 (edited) Which sailing? We're going Jan 15 with early traditional booked. I check the website frequently for changes in pricing. Early seating disappeared a long time ago, then late seating followed. But this week early seating showed up again. EDIT: today it's late traditional available only. No early or MTD. I see that today. Strange, Seems to me that the earlier you book you should have more opportunities. I will keep checking. If nothing for early opens we will just make resvs. for a early time every day. :) We are also going on January. 15th. ( then driving to Miami for Carnival Vista on 22nd ) Edited February 27, 2016 by mrpayroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet524 Posted February 27, 2016 #17 Share Posted February 27, 2016 I just booked Oasis for a year from now and told trad late seating closed. Rep said to call.Monday when restaurant booking folks were in and they would be able to clear us for trad late seating. Seems like they are really trying to ram My Time Dining down our throats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiselife4me Posted February 28, 2016 #18 Share Posted February 28, 2016 This is ludicrous!! I'm not a fan of dynamic dining because I don't like to plan out what I may or may not be doing. I like traditional dining much better. I'm a travel agent and many of my clients are disliking DD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wreckem2013 Posted February 28, 2016 #19 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I have 2 Royal cruises booked for 2017 (so lots of lead time) and in both cases, I was unable to choose Traditional Dining (or Traditional Dynamic in the case of Anthem). What's up with that? My Radiance cruise was just published less than a week ago, so it's obviously NOT that traditional dining is full! Traditional Dining was available for all three of my bookings in 2017. March 13 on Liberty, and June 30/July 7 on Radiance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slyster Posted February 28, 2016 #20 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Our last two cruises we had to be wait listed for early traditional and both times within a month or two or booking, it opened up. We have never not gotten the traditional seating we wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagsfan Posted February 28, 2016 #21 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I have 2 Royal cruises booked for 2017 (so lots of lead time) and in both cases, I was unable to choose Traditional Dining (or Traditional Dynamic in the case of Anthem). What's up with that? My Radiance cruise was just published less than a week ago, so it's obviously NOT that traditional dining is full! Ask an RCCL agent to transfer you to someone in the dining dept. I was able to get confirmed for early traditional when it was unavailable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmwmarmstrong Posted February 28, 2016 #22 Share Posted February 28, 2016 When we booked in Oct 2014 for our upcoming cruise on the FOS, we could not book traditional nor could we be waitlisted. I booked yesterday for April 1, 2017 on Freedom and was told only My Time was available. Planner said to call back in June and see if I could get it changed. Being this was my first cruise with RC, I was a little surprised. I went online and did a mock booking and it was only showing My Time. Is this normal for RC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted February 28, 2016 #23 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I booked yesterday for April 1, 2017 on Freedom and was told only My Time was available. Planner said to call back in June and see if I could get it changed. Being this was my first cruise with RC, I was a little surprised. I went online and did a mock booking and it was only showing My Time. Is this normal for RC? No, but we can't tell if that is policy or just RCI's IT system at it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuvraj Posted February 28, 2016 #24 Share Posted February 28, 2016 I am going to express an opinion in response to the original question. This is based on recent cruises on Allure, Oasis and Anthem. Plus cruises over the past five years have been mainly on Freedom Class. I believe that on the latest class of ships (Quantum, Oasis) they are moving strategically away from traditional dinning and the traditional cruise format. my opinion which not everyone will agree with. Quantum definitely seems to lean toward dynamic dinning IMO. I don't believe this would happen fleet wide. Having reflected on my own recent experiences and some of the comments on this forum, I have a feeling that some are picking the wrong ship for their cruse if it is the traditional dinning / evening format that they are looking forward to or are accustomed to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieDiva Posted February 28, 2016 #25 Share Posted February 28, 2016 Just seems so odd that there would not be a wait list that far out. You're right. It was (is) odd. Our TA was taking care of our reservation for us and was surprised too. As was the RCI agent that she was working with. I still have the emails where we were discussing it. In the end it's really a blessing because MTD is our preference. But odd none the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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