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DIAMOND PRINCESS
We are booked on the Diamond Princess and have been hearing some
unflattering input about the ship and especially the freestyle dining. Anyone have any input on this? Jerry in NJ |
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Jerry GaMarsh wrote: We are booked on the Diamond Princess and have been hearing some unflattering input about the ship and especially the freestyle dining. Anyone have any input on this? Freestyle dining is NCL, not Princess. On Princess you have a choice of traditional dining or personal choice dining. PC dining is similar to freestyle, but I understand there are differences. sue |
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Jerry GaMarsh wrote:
We are booked on the Diamond Princess and have been hearing some unflattering input about the ship and especially the freestyle dining. Anyone have any input on this? Hi Jerry, I've cruised twice on the Diamond in the last 12 months. Personal Choice dining is no problem unless you are a very strict traditionalist who must eat at the same time every night. As long as you're aware that you should make reservations as soon as possible... they take reservations for same day and next day dining. Reserve early, or face the possibility of long waits during peak dining hours. Service-as on any cruise-can vary from waiter to waiter and cruise to cruise. "Greasing the palm" of the maitre d' in one of the P.C. dining rooms is useful--it got us the same nice table, with a great waiter, for every night of our cruise. How B |
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A couple of months ago, the dining choices changed on the Diamond.
Throw away any review on the dining choices older than 60 days. Instead of the main traditional room and the four themed PC rooms, their web site now reads "Multiple main dining rooms featuring Princess' unique Personal Choice Dining options". I can only assume they have ditched the different menus and have correctly reverted to one menu per day for the main rooms. |
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Jerry GaMarsh wrote: We are booked on the Diamond Princess and have been hearing some unflattering input about the ship and especially the freestyle dining. Anyone have any input on this? The Anytime Dining on the Princess ships works well. It's not for all, and it's not for large groups (say, more than six). Large groups should go traditional dining. Just show up, anytime, and get a table. You can choose to sit with others, or sit alone. Some post horror stories about long waits, on our one Princess cruise we never waited more than 3 or 4 minutes for a table. Some will tell you to make reservations. Go ahead, you've changed Anytime Dining to traditional. The beauty of Anytime Dining is you eat at anytime, with more than one venue to choose from. If you want to eat at the same time every night just go with traditional dining. |
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