Okay, so we didn’t connect ALL the dots when telling you the “sands appear to be shifting” with dining on Royal Caribbean ships. It was logical to us, while on an Allure of the Seas cruise, that something had to change because there were line-ups to get into My Time Dining and empty tables in the main dining room.
The suspicion, we said, was that more space would be allocated to My Time Dining.
We underestimated Royal Caribbean.
The change is more dynamic. Hey, there’s a good word. And so it was that the venerable cruise line went about introducing Dynamic Dining or, as the press release says, its 
“flexible dining” program. The My Time Dining concept is history, replaced by one where “passengers can decide when, where and with whom they want to eat each night.”
Hmm, isn’t that like “my time?”
The Dynamic Dining reservations system, for all 18 restaurants (11 with fees, seven without), will be launched next month on Quantum of the Seas and next spring on Anthem of the Seas. Right now, Oasis of the Seas is in drydock and being refurbished to accommodate the Broadway show CATS and…Dynamic Dining.
Allure of the Seas will be next. Not wanting to usurp the buzz of a new concept on the new ships — Quantum and Anthem — Oasis will not actually roll out Dynamic Dining until after the newbies do, even though it will be physically ready this month.
That means “next year.”
The cruise line probably would have preferred waiting until then to make the announcement, but word leaked out of the shipyard where Quantum is being built in a tweet, and was later confirmed by Royal Caribbean. Nothing has been said about Allure of the Seas. That’s just our educated guess, and…
We’ve been wrong before.
Today at portsandbows.com: Carnival Live news
Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas
5 nights
January 24, 2015
Port Canaveral (return): Cozumel, Grand Bahamas
Inside: $399
Cost per day: $79
www.royalcaribbean.com