{"id":23238,"date":"2015-02-04T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23238"},"modified":"2015-02-04T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:00:23","slug":"wednesday-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23238","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Dining\u2019s Classic Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recall that we wrote last summer (okay, we hope you recall that we wrote last summer) how something had to change with the dining rooms on Allure of the Seas<\/a>, then Royal Caribbean’s newest ship.<\/p>\n

Our reasoning (in the unlikely event that you have forgotten) was that when you have two traditional dining rooms with 1,100 and 1,400 guests and a lot of empty tables, and one pick-your-time-to-eat dining with 2,067 guests — many of them waiting to get in — then you had a problem.<\/p>\n

Or at least a change waiting to be made.<\/p>\n

The change will happen on Anthem of the Seas<\/a>, the next new Royal Caribbean<\/a> ship, scheduled to arrive in April. This is not exactly the Dynamic Dining<\/i> concept the cruise line \"Grandeur<\/a>announced months ago, whereby instead of one main dining room, diners could choose from smaller rooms and eat when they wished.<\/p>\n

The “traditional crowd” evidently objected.<\/p>\n

So Royal Caribbean creatively designed an off-shoot of Dynamic Dining<\/i> and is calling it Classic<\/i>. It’s for people who want to eat at fixed times: early or late. It gives these traditionals a chance to experience all four complimentary restaurants, each of which has a distinctive menu. It means their “wait staff” will move with them. And it gives the cruise line a better opportunity to avoid line-ups at one dining room when there are empty tables at another, by controlling how much of a restaurant is dedicated to early\/late seatings — remember, people have to sign up for it in advance.<\/p>\n

What Royal Caribbean really did was listen to its customers and, if this more-flexible Classic<\/i> concept works on Anthem of the Seas, expect it to be rolled out over the fleet in time and refurbishments.<\/p>\n

Remember this time where you read it first.<\/p>\n

Just like last time, right?<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>Perks continuing for Norwegian<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Carnival Elation<\/a>
\n\t4 nights
\n\tSeptember 10, 2015
\n\tNew Orleans<\/a> (return): Cozumel<\/a>
\n\tInside: $289
\n\tCost per day: $72<\/strong>
\n\twww.carnival.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may recall that we wrote last summer (okay, we hope you recall that we wrote last summer) how something had to change with the dining rooms on Allure of the Seas, then Royal Caribbean’s newest ship. Our reasoning (in the unlikely event that you have forgotten) was that when you have two traditional dining… Continue reading Dynamic Dining\u2019s Classic Change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,36,19,15],"tags":[203,1542,137,154,948,912,72,819,1803,35,231,1739,360,26,27,33],"class_list":["post-23238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-allure-of-the-seas","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-elation","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ship-dining","tag-cruises","tag-dining-on-ships","tag-dynamic-dining","tag-main-dining-room","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}