"Tom" wrote in message
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>I am leaving on the Spirit in a few days, and wanted to get some
> previous passengers experiences of how they made dinner reservations.
> I read a few stories about people getting up early to make their
> reservations, and did not understand why they did not just make them
> the night before. Can you make them days in advance? Are the shows
> at a set time so you can plan several days in advance? Can you just
> show up at the main dining room at 6:00 and get a table, or?
We just got off the Pearl. I don't think you can make reservations more
than a day or so in advance. We tried to make reservations at the non-extra
pay restaurants (Italian and Mexican) and couldn't get anything before
10:15. They only way we got those reservations was that since this was a
two part cruise where we went on one part and then got off and got back on
before the rest of the people embarked - then we could get reservations for
those two restaurants.
As far as the main dining rooms - you don't need reservations, although
people do. But they have completely lost the original idea of freestyle
IMHO - you can no longer count on someone who might have interesting table
conversation to talk to. If there is one of you - you eat alone. If there
are two of you, you eat at a table for two. When we did it before, we just
lined up for dinner and said that we would share, and were put at a table
with 6 other people. This time, we'd ask to share, and we only managed it
three times in a 14 day cruise. And twice we were in line with people who
heard us say or we heard them say that they would share. Once I was having
a conversation with someone and mentioned that we liked to eat with various
people, and when she got up to the lady who was assigning the tables and was
asked if she wanted to share, she said Most emphatically that she did NOT.
Of course this might not be the case for most cruises, but this was a
Christmas cruise and there were a lot of large family groups. I saw one
large family at two large tables - one had the 12 adults, and the other had
the 9 children.
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