MDR dinner question

[karen_g]

How much time should I budget for dinner in the Main Dining Room? I have My Time Dining and am trying to schedule my dinners around the shows I have already booked. If I try to reserve dinner 2 hours before my shows start, the Cruise Planner says I have a scheduling conflict.

 

Will I really be spending 2 full hours for dinner in the MDR (at a Table for 2)?????

 

 

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[Clarea]

You should be able to finish dinner in the MDR within 60-90 minutes for a table for 2. Make sure you tell your waiter of your time constraint at the start of dinner.

[karen_g]

Thank you very much.

 

 

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[39august]

They will do their best to get you done on time. But it isn't always possible. We always tell our waiters in the specialty restaurants when we need to be done. They have never failed us.

[reallyitsmema]

How much time should I budget for dinner in the Main Dining Room? I have My Time Dining and am trying to schedule my dinners around the shows I have already booked. If I try to reserve dinner 2 hours before my shows start, the Cruise Planner says I have a scheduling conflict.

 

Will I really be spending 2 full hours for dinner in the MDR (at a Table for 2)?????

 

 

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Dinner for two will not take 2 hours, but the cruise planner makes you leave a two hour block, unfortunately.

[MrsPete]

Personally, we find dinner in the MDR a bit drawn out, which is why we tend to eat in the MDR about half the evenings on board. It IS faster if you're at a two-top.

[karen_g]

Personally, we find dinner in the MDR a bit drawn out, which is why we tend to eat in the MDR about half the evenings on board. It IS faster if you're at a two-top.

 

 

Well I was thinking that the MDR (at a 2-top) would be speedier than the Specialty Restaurants, no?

 

And I'm not trying to *zoom* through dinner; I was just hoping that on a regular night, we could be in-and-out in under two hours!

 

 

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[CCC3]

We did a two top in January, and it was between 45 min to an hour.

 

 

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[karen_g]

We did a two top in January, and it was between 45 min to an hour.

 

 

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Perfect!

 

 

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[Norwich Cruiser]

Whenever we have had a table for two or four persons and doing MTD we have always been finished within an hour without ever feeling rushed and that includes coffee.

[runner15km]

Skip dessert if time is a issue.

[JTBCruiser]

Our normal experience is 60-90 minutes. We have asked our wait staff to help us finish in time for a show and never had a problem and did not feel rushed.

[Rala]

I think 60-90 minutes is a very good estimate. We recently did have 2 hr dinners, but we also had a veeeeeerrrryyy sloooooow waiter(probably the worst we have ever had on our more than 30 Royal cruises (guess the odds caught up to us LOL). There were other tables near us of the same size who were leaving the MDR while we were ordering dessert. :o