Kay S Posted November 13, 2022 #26 Share Posted November 13, 2022 5 hours ago, SantaFeFan said: On our last Grand Princess cruise we sat at a table for eight with four other people in Da Vinci. That table was located in a corner of the room. It became a race to be the first ones there to grab the best seats, the ones where the view wasn't two blank walls. The other four people were always at the front of the line when the doors opened, so we would end up with the bad seats every time. We eventually asked to be moved, and we did end up at a better location. For the rest of the cruise, the people at that first table would scowl at us anytime we crossed paths, probably because they thought that we didn't like them and were insulted. 😀 This sounds like old time TD. Did you request the same table at the same time on the app beforehand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike45LC Posted November 13, 2022 #27 Share Posted November 13, 2022 6 hours ago, PaperSniper4 said: When did you make your reservations? That day? Day before? A long time before? Just curious.....I need to download the app and try to make reservations, but our cruise is not until March 2023 so I'm pretty sure I'm far, far to early. Maybe have the final payment? Doug I made the reservations approximately one month before the cruise. And I was able to get my proposed MDR and time for each day of the cruise. (Time was between 6:20 and 7:30, based on the port schedules.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantaFeFan Posted November 13, 2022 #28 Share Posted November 13, 2022 36 minutes ago, Kay S said: This sounds like old time TD. Did you request the same table at the same time on the app beforehand? This was when TD was still offered - well before COVID. No app yet. We chose what we had been familiar with for decades, early traditional dining. Now, after several mediocre shared table experiences over the years, we are fully in favor of the Dine My Way format. No more sharing tables with unlikable people, such as the four ultra religious people who wanted us to stop our conversations with our friends when they prayed (we didn't - it's our vacation too!), asked us not to order alcoholic beverages because their religion forbade it (not gonna happen at my table), and other wise completely ignored us as the sinning heathens they believed us to be. 👿 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperSniper4 Posted November 13, 2022 Author #29 Share Posted November 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Mike45LC said: I made the reservations approximately one month before the cruise. And I was able to get my proposed MDR and time for each day of the cruise. (Time was between 6:20 and 7:30, based on the port schedules.) Thanks very much. That's my plan also. Princess' "MTD" looks like a pretty good plan to me, I like the flexibility of pre-scheduling "in advance". Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kay S Posted November 14, 2022 #30 Share Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, SantaFeFan said: This was when TD was still offered - well before COVID. No app yet. We chose what we had been familiar with for decades, early traditional dining. Now, after several mediocre shared table experiences over the years, we are fully in favor of the Dine My Way format. No more sharing tables with unlikable people, such as the four ultra religious people who wanted us to stop our conversations with our friends when they prayed (we didn't - it's our vacation too!), asked us not to order alcoholic beverages because their religion forbade it (not gonna happen at my table), and other wise completely ignored us as the sinning heathens they believed us to be. 👿 That explains it, you sinning heathen.😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdsqrl Posted November 14, 2022 #31 Share Posted November 14, 2022 3 hours ago, SantaFeFan said: This was when TD was still offered - well before COVID. No app yet. We chose what we had been familiar with for decades, early traditional dining. Now, after several mediocre shared table experiences over the years, we are fully in favor of the Dine My Way format. No more sharing tables with unlikable people, such as the four ultra religious people who wanted us to stop our conversations with our friends when they prayed (we didn't - it's our vacation too!), asked us not to order alcoholic beverages because their religion forbade it (not gonna happen at my table), and other wise completely ignored us as the sinning heathens they believed us to be. 👿 You could have demanded equal silence for your own prayers to Satan . . . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VibeGuy Posted November 14, 2022 #32 Share Posted November 14, 2022 They sound like a lot of fun. The NYT recently ran a story about how the most in-demand reservations have crept earlier and earlier of late. I admit ours onboard have edged closer to 7 than to 8, in part because an 8 with four courses or more pretty much guarantees being the last people in the MDR of late, and I don’t enjoy a bunch of side work going on around me. Our experience since the restart (70nts on Ruby) was on less-full sailings and we found ourselves with a time-and-table reservation after we found a service team we clicked with. When we unexpectedly showed up a few weeks after we left, the only question at the MDR was if we wanted the same table again. as others have said, make a time-and-party-size reservation on Dine My Way (after the final payment date for all passengers, after you’re paid in full for Platinum and Elite) and if you find a service team that meets your expectations, the DR managers may be willing to click the button that converts it to time-and-table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantaFeFan Posted November 14, 2022 #33 Share Posted November 14, 2022 1 hour ago, VibeGuy said: as others have said, make a time-and-party-size reservation on Dine My Way (after the final payment date for all passengers, after you’re paid in full for Platinum and Elite) and if you find a service team that meets your expectations, the DR managers may be willing to click the button that converts it to time-and-table. I keep hearing that myth about Platinum and Elite. We aren't either and we made our dining reservations 4 months ago for a cruise that departs 3 months from now. So much for telling people that they have to be big shots to make those reservations early. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caribill Posted November 14, 2022 #34 Share Posted November 14, 2022 13 hours ago, stoneharborlady said: If I waited till 7:30 I would be starved. On a cruise, I am rarely hungry by even 8 PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperSniper4 Posted November 14, 2022 Author #35 Share Posted November 14, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, VibeGuy said: They sound like a lot of fun. The NYT recently ran a story about how the most in-demand reservations have crept earlier and earlier of late. I admit ours onboard have edged closer to 7 than to 8, in part because an 8 with four courses or more pretty much guarantees being the last people in the MDR of late, and I don’t enjoy a bunch of side work going on around me. Our experience since the restart (70nts on Ruby) was on less-full sailings and we found ourselves with a time-and-table reservation after we found a service team we clicked with. When we unexpectedly showed up a few weeks after we left, the only question at the MDR was if we wanted the same table again. as others have said, make a time-and-party-size reservation on Dine My Way (after the final payment date for all passengers, after you’re paid in full for Platinum and Elite) and if you find a service team that meets your expectations, the DR managers may be willing to click the button that converts it to time-and-table. ...my mistake, deleted.... Edited November 14, 2022 by PaperSniper4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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