Carnival Rolls Out Flexible Dining Option Fleetwide
Although I have been a fan of Carnival since Kathy Lee was singing the “Fun ship” song back in the 80’s, they have just taken my love for the cruise line one step further. This week Carnival Cruises has announced the fleet wide rollout of its flexible dining time program.
Last year Carnival began testing “Your Choice Dining” onboard the Carnival Legend and the Carnival Liberty and have now decided to roll the program out fleet wide. Currently passengers sailing on the Legend and Liberty as well as those on the Carnival Sensation, Carnival Paradise and Carnival Miracle can enjoy “Your Choice Dining”. Those passengers booked on the Carnival Conquest, Carnival Elation and Carnival Pride will be able to dine at their convenience by the end of April. The Carnival Fantasy and Carnival Spirit join the party sometime in mid-June with the Carnival Dream, Carnival Ecstasy and Carnival Glory getting the option by years’ end. The Carnival Fascination is scheduled to enter into the program in the February 2010; the rest of the fleet has not yet been scheduled. However, Carnival does plan to have “Your Time Dining” available throughout the entire fleet by the summer of 2010.
How Does “Your Time Dining” Work?
When you book your cruise on a ship that offers the program, you are given the option of selecting a dining time. The times offered will be early seating, late seating and “Your Time Dining”. Guests who choose “Your Time Dining” will be able to have dinner in the main dining room at anytime between 5:45 and 9:30 (depending on the ship and sailing date). Just as always the dining assignments will be given out on a first come, first serve basis, so book early to secure your first preference. If you do not get your desired dining time, don’t fret, you can ask to be put on the waiting list. Sometime prior to your sail date, you will be emailed with your confirmed dining assignment. Once you board the ship, guests will be able to request any table size as well as a specific waiter. Just remember the more requests you make the longer you are likely to wait for a table. However, Carnival has opted to provide guests with restaurant style pagers so that you can continue to enjoy the ship until your table is ready.
TICruiser’s Opinion on “Your Time Dining”
While I am a huge advocate of flexible dining times, I will admit some ships and lines do it better than others. In my opinion, Carnival has definitely taken the right path by choosing to use the restaurant pagers. I also must applaud them for giving passengers the option to request not only the table size but taking it one step further by allowing you to request a certain waiter. Although many passengers love the traditional early and late seating assignments I would not be surprised if sometime in the near future more passengers opted for flexible time dining than not.
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