Explain Any time dining

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littlebit

Guest
We have booked Princess (The Caribbean Princess) for the first time. We were not asked if we had a choice for dining. All it says is Anytime Dining Available. My questions are: Will we be assigned a regular dining time if we want to go to the dining room? How does the anytime dining work? Do we need to reserve a certain time each night if we want the anytime dining? If we have not been assigned a formal dining time, and we want it, do we need to request it?
 
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Whimsy

Guest
Anytime dining is formal dining only you don't have a set time, the same table, the same table mates, the same wait staff. If you want traditional dining you should call whoever you booked your cruise thru and see if it still available. It may be there is a wait list for traditional.

With anytime dining you have your choice of two dining rooms. Sometimes you can make a standing reservation but you time choices may be limited to before 6 or 6:30 and after 8 or 8:30. You still get the same menu offered in traditional dining. The dress is the same as traditional dining also.

If you wanted traditional but are waitlisted sometimes you can see the maitre d (sp?) once on board and see if you can change. I seen this be done while we were making reservations for Sabatini's the first afternoon on the ship. Check your patters once you board as it will tell you the time and place to make reservations, etc.
 
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12Cats

Guest
We loved the anytime dining last year. We had our choice of restaurants, went to dinner when we were ready (earlier some days, later on others), and never had to wait to be seated. Ended up going to the same one 5 of the 7 nights because we had so much fun in that one - and when we started doing that, they recognized us and began seating us in the same section with the same waitstaff (so then it was much like the formal dining). The only drawback was that we were on an Alaskan Cruise and we didn't get to see the parade of the Baked Alaskas since everyone was not eating dessert at the same time!

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