Dining question

[cruiserRay55]

Sorry for the silly question.  Two of my friends want to join us to cruise together in August.  The problem is that we have late dining room time and my friends have my time dining.  Late dining room time was not available when my friends booked the cruise.  How could we have dinner together?  No buffet, thanks.  All suggestions are welcome.   

[Clarea]

You need to change to the same dining type.

 

If you cannot do this pre-cruise by contacting whoever booked the cruise, then go to the dining room as soon as you board and request to change. 

 

You can also try to get on a waitlist for a dining type.

[cruiserRay55]

4 minutes ago, Host Clarea said:

You need to change to the same dining type.

 

If you cannot do this pre-cruise by contacting whoever booked the cruise, then go to the dining room as soon as you board and request to change. 

 

You can also try to get on a waitlist for a dining type.

 

Thank you so much for the quick answer.  

[maryred]

15 hours ago, Host Clarea said:

You need to change to the same dining type.

 

If you cannot do this pre-cruise by contacting whoever booked the cruise, then go to the dining room as soon as you board and request to change. 

 

You can also try to get on a waitlist for a dining type.

No only this but both parties should contact their travel professional or the CS # on their booking confirmation and have their dining preferences cross referenced or linked. This will insure that once the 2 (or more) bookings have the same dining time, especially if traditional set time, that they will already be penciled in to be seated at the same table for dinner, as the Maitre'D usually does the upcoming cruise's table chart a few days prior to sailing. Having the bookings cross referenced could help one party or the other get the group's prefered dining time, not 100% sure Royal does this, but on other cruise lines linked bookings get higher priority than singular bookings to get off any waitlist.

[Clarea]

1 minute ago, maryred said:

No only this but both parties should contact their travel professional or the CS # on their booking confirmation and have their dining preferences cross referenced or linked. This will insure that once the 2 (or more) bookings have the same dining time, especially if traditional set time, that they will already be penciled in to be seated at the same table for dinner, as the Maitre'D usually does the upcoming cruise's table chart a few days prior to sailing. Having the bookings cross referenced could help one party or the other get the group's prefered dining time, not 100% sure Royal does this, but on other cruise lines linked bookings get higher priority than singular bookings to get off any waitlist.

 

Perhaps things have changed, but I've never been able to link reservations for dining when those reservations were not already assigned to the same dining type/time.

[stevea36]

6 minutes ago, Host Clarea said:

 

Perhaps things have changed, but I've never been able to link reservations for dining when those reservations were not already assigned to the same dining type/time.

Bob, once again, you are correct.   All parties have to be booked with the same dining type in order for their reservations to be cross referenced  for dining.

 

Steve

[maryred]

5 minutes ago, stevea36 said:

Bob, once again, you are correct.   All parties have to be booked with the same dining type in order for their reservations to be cross referenced  for dining.

 

Steve

OK so it is different than other cruise lines that do allow separate bookings without the same confirmed dining type to be cross referenced. Kind of surprising though since Celebrity allowed us to do so when we "clicked" with a couple on our rollcall and wanted to share a table but we had Celebrity select dining and they had the late seating. The Celebrity call center CS rep did say that cross referencing to the other couple's booking did help us move to the almost full late seating.

[fdthird]

Why do people keep referencing things you can do on other cruise lines?  Imho, it confuses folks asking about Royal.  

[maryred]

25 minutes ago, fdthird said:

Why do people keep referencing things you can do on other cruise lines?  Imho, it confuses folks asking about Royal.  

Celebrity is a Royal Caribbean International Ltd. owned cruise line. It does share many similarities of "onshore processing" (including the same IT) division and FAQs as RC Cruise Line.

[ALWAYS CRUZIN]

Go to the dining room you both want to dine at as soon as you board the ship. The matradee should be there. He or she will be able to make any changes for you.

[SRF]

1 hour ago, twodaywonder said:

matradee

 

Is that like a manatee in a tux?

 

Sorry, I couldn't resist. 😄

 

[ALWAYS CRUZIN]

Are you referring to the spelling? It can be spelled 3 different ways. As for the picture. If it is the picture? Please ! Not nice at all.

[SRF]

14 hours ago, twodaywonder said:

Are you referring to the spelling? It can be spelled 3 different ways. As for the picture. If it is the picture? Please ! Not nice at all.

 

MAKING A JOKE.

 

Please provide references for acceptable alternative spellings.

 

Mirriam Webster states - maître d' with alternatives of maitre d'

 

Cambridge dictionary shows no alternative spellings.

 

MacMillan dictionary only gives the spelling as - maitre d’

 

 

 

 

[ALWAYS CRUZIN]

Do not appreciate the joke.

Now drop it. Please.

 

Matradee synonyms, Matradee pronunciation, Matradee translation, English dictionary definition of Matradee. n. pl. mai·tre d's Informal A maître d'hôtel. Noun 1 ...