Balcony dinners on small balconies

[Grammyluvs]

My husband and  I are sailing for the first time on the Regal. We have always had Caribe balconies which were larger. How does the Balcony dinner work on those small balconies on the Regal and Royal?   lt seems like it would be too crowded.

[Astro Flyer]

1 hour ago, Grammyluvs said:

My husband and  I are sailing for the first time on the Regal. We have always had Caribe balconies which were larger. How does the Balcony dinner work on those small balconies on the Regal and Royal?   lt seems like it would be too crowded.

My wife & I have enjoyed several UBDs on the smaller Royal-class balconies & will do it again on this class of ship.

 

It has 1 foot less deep (9’x4’ vs 9’x5’) but since the table is placed at the railing it didn’t affect our enjoyment.  It was tighter for the person not seated by the open slider to go into the cabin but was doable for me.

 

We’ve enjoyed the UBD on a large 9’x9’ Caribe balcony, on standard 9’x5’ and even inside our cabin due to inclement weather...all of them were great. 😃

[floridalover5623]

I suspect they don't sell as many dinners as they used to on the older ships. It just seem much to crowded in a regular balcony to even consider trying it. We just used if for coffee & danish in the mornings & that was barely enough room.

[stepmor99]

We have done the UBD on both the Regal and Royal a few times. The balcony was small but certainly doable. It is more a problem for the servers than it is for the participants. We will not hesitate to do it again.

[TheRabbit]

34 minutes ago, stepmor99 said:

We have done the UBD on both the Regal and Royal a few times. The balcony was small but certainly doable. It is more a problem for the servers than it is for the participants. We will not hesitate to do it again.

We did this for the first time in November and will do it again over the Chef's Table that was definitely a feast.

As for room, as Astro Flyer indicated and stepmore99, it is harder, but doable.

[TheRabbit]

8 hours ago, Astro Flyer said:

My wife & I have enjoyed several UBDs on the smaller Royal-class balconies & will do it again on this class of ship.

 

It has 1 foot less deep (9’x4’ vs 9’x5’) but since the table is placed at the railing it didn’t affect our enjoyment.  It was tighter for the person not seated by the open slider to go into the cabin but was doable for me.

 

We’ve enjoyed the UBD on a large 9’x9’ Caribe balcony, on standard 9’x5’ and even inside our cabin due to inclement weather...all of them were great. 😃

FYI,

We're booked for the night in SF this spring.

[Colo Cruiser]

Royal and Regal although smaller it was no problem for us.

We have done it a few times and will do it again.   

[Astro Flyer]

13 minutes ago, TheRabbit said:

FYI,

We're booked for the night in SF this spring.

We hope to have it on the same evening but with a lot of OBC will take our chances & book it onboard.

[TheRabbit]

3 minutes ago, Astro Flyer said:

We hope to have it on the same evening but with a lot of OBC will take our chances & book it onboard.

We will be doing the later booking time. They will do 2 each night as you know. We can talk the day we get on and coordinate if we need to. Cheryl may want to do SD once she knows I have booked it.

[Colo Cruiser]

3 minutes ago, TheRabbit said:

We will be doing the later booking time. They will do 2 each night as you know. We can talk the day we get on and coordinate if we need to. Cheryl may want to do SD once she knows I have booked it.

They do 4 each night.

[TheRabbit]

3 minutes ago, Colo Cruiser said:

They do 4 each night.

If so, great! Must be a Royal class thing. Just off the Coral and they only did 2 each night.

[Colo Cruiser]

Just now, TheRabbit said:

If so, great! Must be a Royal class thing. Just off the Coral and they only did 2 each night.

It's been 4 on the Grand Class as well.

Of course unless they have cut staff or cut back due to demand.

[TheRabbit]

4 minutes ago, Colo Cruiser said:

It's been 4 on the Grand Class as well.

Of course unless they have cut staff or cut back due to demand.

We were on the 60 night cruise, so demand may have been much lower and staffed that way

 

23 minutes ago, Astro Flyer said:

We hope to have it on the same evening but with a lot of OBC will take our chances & book it onboard.

Your saved Frank!

[Bubbs33]

Oh my. I didn't realize there was a limit to the number of UBD each night. Is there also a limit to the UB breakfasts?

Didn't realize early booking might be a factor.

 

[Colo Cruiser]

7 minutes ago, Bubbs33 said:

Oh my. I didn't realize there was a limit to the number of UBD each night. Is there also a limit to the UB breakfasts?

Didn't realize early booking might be a factor.

 

Since they bring it all at once and there are no servers etc I doubt it.

They just leave it.

[TheRabbit]

27 minutes ago, Colo Cruiser said:

Since they bring it all at once and there are no servers etc I doubt it.

They just leave it.

Do they set up a table? If So, that could be a limit.

[Astro Flyer]

1 hour ago, TheRabbit said:

Do they set up a table? If So, that could be a limit.

Our only UBB was on the Crown with a large balcony table on a larger Caribe deck balcony.  With most of the Royal-class balconies being only 9’x4’ with a small table for drinks, I think it would be necessary to provide a table like for the UBD.

[geoherb]

The UBD is my favorite celebratory meal on Princess. We did not have any problems with the narrower balcony when we had one last December on the Royal. 

[Grammyluvs]

Thanks for all  your answers. It appears to be doable. yippee