We always enjoy the down time of dinner in the dining room. A good hour or so just allows us to talk about our day and give thought to the day’s activities.
I like to take my time to enjoy my meal. I think 45 minutes is not enough time to eat. Disney Cruise line has assigned 2 dining times, 5:45pm and 8:15pm and I always get the second dining time. They also correspond their shows to with their dining times. So, while the first diners are eating, the cruisers with the second dinner time are watching the show and vice versa! To me that works out perfectly!
The first thing we tell our waiter is that we are NOT in a hurry. We enjoy not being rushed at dinner. 90 minutes seems to be a perfect amount of time for us to enjoy dinner .
We almost exclusively cruise on Royal Caribbean. We usually choose early dining (5:00 PM) and generally we find we get out of the dining room by and 6:30. On our recent cruise on the Icon of the Seas, we were out of the dining room between 6:00 and 6:15. 60 to 75 minutes for dinner would be ideal. Ordering ahead wouldn't help as we often have special requests.
Believe it or not, our worst experience was on Oceania Regatta, where we sat for 20 minutes before a server came to take our drink orders and 45 minutes to get our drinks. We ended up leaving after getting our drinks without even ordering dinner.
We cruise Princess and completely stopped going because we hate the slow pace. We eat early, fast and go on to our activities. On Sun Princess they had the American Diner which was a fast and delicious sit down meal. If we could preorder, we would go back to the dining room.
I like the idea of viewing and preordering dinner. I like the idea of allowing dinner being set between 45 but no more than 75 minutes. Let it be what our plans are for the evening and also let kitchen be prepared with pre-set orders.
Make no more changes to the dining experience. It's vacation, take your sweet time. Carnival has taken away the tablecloths, paper menus and several items that were standard on the menu that includes Specialty restaurants not to mention no more late night pizza. The cutbacks with them never seems to end.
This might just be me, but my feeling is if you don't have the time to come and have a leisurely meal, maybe you need to look into doing the buffet tonight or a quick-service casual. There definitely are nights I just want a burger and to go lounge somewhere, but that's not the MDR staff's responsibility to accommodate my mood.
YES please, order in advance, 45 minutes in and out sounds great. We chat all day and don't really need more than 45 minutes of eating and chatting. I do have family and friends that view dinner as an event and want to hang out for a couple of hours, they drive me crazy. There are so many other things to do on a cruise.
Having recently cruised on Royal Caribbean 10 times in the last 6 months I can say that 60 to 80 minutes is the sweet spot for us. We are going on Allure of the Seas in early January and vloging about the food service not only about the length but also how to eat on the healthy side compared to the typical eating experience. Should be interesting! Thanks JJ and happy holidays to everyone!
90 mins is the max. Recently on MSC during breakfast, I don't know what happened, but they forgot me, so I got up and was proceeding to walk out when the manager on duty asked what the issue was and begged for me to come back.
For just a straight 3-course dinner with no entertainment/show in the MDR, I think 60-75 minutes is a good length of time, and anything more than 90 minutes is too long. (Now, if you're deliberately savoring your meal and taking your time and socializing, etc., then that's a different story, of course, but at the same time you shouldn't be closing down the place each night. There are bars, lounges, etc., that you can continue your socializing in for the night instead of holding up your table for hours.)
To me, 1 - 2 hrs is fine for me. If I know there is another event we would like to attend that may interfere with a long dinner, then we would opt for buffet or some other shorter time option for dinner.
I would think that if someone is in a hurry they could grab a bite at the buffet. An alternative could be an all in one service like provided in Business class on airlines, known as express service. I suppose you could always ask your server to bring your app, salad and entree all in one shot. Myself I’m in no hurry as long as the wait between courses isn’t unreasonable. I think the MDR experience should always be grand and luxurious.
On Princess, the app has a dining preferences page where you can mark slow, medium, or fast. I travel solo and mark fast. I am not concerned so much with the number of minutes but with the amount of time between courses. Eating alone, I like the appetizer to come shortly after I order and for each successive course to come shortly after I've finished the one before. I may linger over dishes, but I generally don't want to wait long from one to the next. I do expect a specialty restaurant meal to take longer and budget my time accordingly. And if I'm eating in the buffet I may deliberately read a chapter of my book between courses.
90 minutes max in the dining room. How about 2 designated DRs, one for order ahead service with shorter dining time (an hour maybe) and one for those who want to sit and order off the menu. We are loyal to Royal and haven't had any issues, for the most part, with the dining room service. Great question!!!
the pre order and 45 minutes is only good if you are served your meal immediately. Then it's 40 minutes or so to eat, talk, have a drink.. that kind of stuff. I don't see this as a cutback, I see this as staff not having to work until 3 am with the cleaning of the dining room (especially the dishes).
I get the anytime dining because it is better to time yourself for the shows because going to a 6pm dining and being there till 8pm is not something I enjoy but there probably is people who want the 2 hour dining experience.
90 min for most of our meals. We consider dining an experience not to be rushed and also eat more slowly when on vacation. We would definitely do the order ahead of possible and could eat in 60-75 min if that were the case.
we love the sit down dinners in dining room. 1 to 1/2 hours is good. after that it is too long for comfort. we have been on disney, carnival, royal, and princess. only one tooooo long was the inaugural of carnival panorama. but, that is expected on first sailing until kinks are out. we did panorama this august with 16 family members and it was fantastic...
An hour would be perfect but I would go with 45 mins.- 75 mins. Like you two, we usually decide what to order prior to going to the dining room as it does save a lot of time.
I don’t mind the wait time in Carnival’s MDR. My husband, on the other hand, has issues with the wait time. He doesn’t like waiting more than 15-20 minutes for our food.
1-1/2 hours unless you’re doing some type of “experience” like 360 or a chef’s table. I don’t want to wait all evening for dinner, but I do not want to feel pressured to gobble it down and be kicked out.
I would say 1 hour, 45 minutes would do but I would not be able to enjoy desert with a cup of coffee and chat with friends...Never had a bad dinning situation. LOVE your vids!
It really depends on the size of the group you're dining with. However, I believe believe at least 90 minutes is good. I don't want to feel rushed on vacation.
You know what doesn’t make sense ??? Most of the food in main dining rooms is “banquet style”. Cold dishes are preplated for wait staff to grab and go. And many entrees are off a steam table. The only way I can see carnival doing this is to reduce waste by knowing entrees in advance.
Between 75 and 90 minutes. Big salads, fettuccine, and onion soup take longer to eat than a shrimp cocktail with 5 small shrimp. So, time needed depends on the appetizers.
We can usually get in and out within an hour and that’s about what we prefer most nights. My car Royal Caribbean has the worst dining room experience overall.
My family’s FAVORITE part of our Royal Caribbean Cruise last summer was the MAIN DINING Room …yea that’s right. We all looked forward to meeting up “later tonight at dinner” while goofing around all day doing whatever we all wanted to during the day. So what ever RC is currently doing as far as time goes for the Main dining is perfect IMO. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
I agree with both of you. I think an hour and 15 minutes is fine and enough time to spend in the dining room. Any more than that is a waste of time, and I would be concerned that I would miss any type of show or entertainment that I want to see.
I do not want to spend more than an hour and 15 minutes in the dining room. Happy holidays. 2025 will be the year that you guys hit 100K subscribers. I can feel it!!!!🎉❤🎊
As a solo cruiser I always opt for a shared table if available. It gives me a chance to meet others onboard and I prefer for the dinner service to not be rushed. It is often my evenings "main event". Perhaps they could have a set dining time for those in a hurry with express service including pre-ordering before you arrive. Personally, I am on vacation and have no reason to hurry anywhere at dinner time. I may be the odd man out on this subject as I also like to dress a little nicer for dinner at the MDR.
45 minutes is too tight if you are enjoying the multiple courses, especially desert course with an after dinner coffee. We are Platinum on Carnival and can say they seem to have actually gotten a little slower with MDR service , don’t see them pulling off 45 minutes with all courses offered.
We enjoy our dining time and have never worried about how long it takes. Of course, we would be annoyed if we didn't always have a drink iin front of us duriing that wait. Our group has cruises together for several years now, and we are never in a rush to do anything after dinner. We enjoy the slow pace and haviing time between courses so we don't feel rushed or stuffed.
We haven’t set foot in a MDR on any line since 2015. The long waits along with the menu cutbacks make it a total waste of time. We do a lot of specialty and of course lido or on carnival guys is usually open til 6.
On our last cruise, there were people sitting before us and we got our food first and I can see they were getting frustrated so I went up the the waiter and asked why their food was taking so long. Their food finally came and they ended up not eatting and walked out cuz the food took so long (Carnival miracle)
I say an hour, maybe 1.5.....but thats only if im getting my food in a timely manner, and actually have a drink. Half the time my drink wont come till halfway througgh.😮
We sail on the Enchanted Princess the full month of February this year. The first of the three voyages, we had a great team serving us dinner, every night at the same table and time. We asked to be placed in the same area for round two. (This was our 30th cruise with Princess.) We lasted two nights and then told the head waiter we’d be dining elsewhere for the rest of that voyage. It was the slowest, the staff didn’t speak English and got orders wrong throughout the full meal. We were traveling the first two voyages with another couple and they agreed. The third round had us by ourselves. We found out that our favorite waiter had been promoted to one of the specialty restaurants. So, we visited him there three times! It was well worth the extra dollars to do so. On other nights, we went to the anytime dining room and got seated right away. It was ok, but we’d been spoiled! We will be on a different ship soon so we will be at the starting point once again. . .
Keep in mind that Carnival doesn’t send the survey to 100% of passengers. It’s our last choice among cruise lines. They would know that if we ever received a survey. 😅
a gratuity is defined - something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service. Everyone knows that if it is not given voluntarily... it's a service fee. I believe that all cruise lines should get rid of the gratuity and pay their employees more...and put it in the cost of the cruise. The whole gratuity thing is really getting tired. All-inclusive resorts have been doing this for years...and so has Virgin. Make cruises all-inclusive... I'll take that cruise.
1 1/2 max..have had good and bad service..not unique I feel to a particular ship. There are good wait teams and not so good. Last cruise we enjoyed folks at our table so not a big deal. But indeed skipped dessert most nights because slow service. We opted to just do buffet when we knew we wanted to get out at a specific time.
45 minutes is doable with only 1 or 2 ppl. 2 -6 is gonna take minimum an hour 15. More than 6 will be 90minutes minimum. 45 minutes a bit rushed with more than 2 ppl. Pre/ordering might work for 2 providing everyone is one time. Question would the food be hot 🤔? Folks gotta be on time and slow kitchen makes a difference.
Good video! I would prefer a maximum dining time of 1.5 hours. I've been in situations where it took 2 hours, which is ridiculous because if you have a show to watch afterward, you might miss it. Your video reminded me of when I went to a specialty restaurant on Celebrity Cruises, Le Petit Chef. The experience was amazing, but the whole dinner lasted over 2 hours because they had to wait until every table finished their dish before playing the next animated show. It was disappointing. For example, you'd get your appetizer and then wait 45 minutes for the entrée, followed by another 30 minutes for dessert. Anyways, it would be nice to pre-book your meals beforehand at the main dining room to save time.
I would love to be in and out of the dining room in 1 hour. Honestly, the menus in the MDR are not exciting enough that they should be treated like a special event. Now, if I'm dining in a high-end specialty restaurant, that's a different story and I'm fine with dinner taking longer because this is "dining" not "eating." I've only sailed on RC so far, so I can't compare dining experiences. I rarely eat in the MDR because I buy specialty dinner packages, however, things will be different on my 6 day cruise with RC in Feb because I was so disappointed in many of the specialty restaurants on my last cruise that I'm going to try cruising using all the free venues and seeing if there's that much of a difference. Great content. Happy Holidays to both of you.
I think having your dinner pre-order is the key. When I'm seated and my dinner is already being served 45 minutes is enough for me. 6:53
45-60 minutes is too short for us. I hate feeling rushed. 1-1/2 hrs is what we prefer.
No more than 1 1/2 hours for dinner. The bar service is usually the biggest hold up.
I always grab a fresh cocktail before dinner as the bar service in the MDR is never great.
If they are mandatory, they are not gratuities, they are service fees.
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We always enjoy the down time of dinner in the dining room. A good hour or so just allows us to talk about our day and give thought to the day’s activities.
Order in advance. Then in and out in 45 minutes? SCORE!!! That's a dream come true!
75-90 minutes is the sweet spot I believe. However if there was an option to order ahead would be a great option.
I like to take my time to enjoy my meal. I think 45 minutes is not enough time to eat. Disney Cruise line has assigned 2 dining times, 5:45pm and 8:15pm and I always get the second dining time. They also correspond their shows to with their dining times. So, while the first diners are eating, the cruisers with the second dinner time are watching the show and vice versa! To me that works out perfectly!
The first thing we tell our waiter is that we are NOT in a hurry. We enjoy not being rushed at dinner. 90 minutes seems to be a perfect amount of time for us to enjoy dinner .
We almost exclusively cruise on Royal Caribbean. We usually choose early dining (5:00 PM) and generally we find we get out of the dining room by and 6:30. On our recent cruise on the Icon of the Seas, we were out of the dining room between 6:00 and 6:15. 60 to 75 minutes for dinner would be ideal. Ordering ahead wouldn't help as we often have special requests.
Believe it or not, our worst experience was on Oceania Regatta, where we sat for 20 minutes before a server came to take our drink orders and 45 minutes to get our drinks. We ended up leaving after getting our drinks without even ordering dinner.
75 minutes is perfect. I agree 100%. A couple of sailings it's been 2:15. This was on Celebrity.
We cruise Princess and completely stopped going because we hate the slow pace. We eat early, fast and go on to our activities. On Sun Princess they had the American Diner which was a fast and delicious sit down meal. If we could preorder, we would go back to the dining room.
I like the idea of viewing and preordering dinner. I like the idea of allowing dinner being set between 45 but no more than 75 minutes. Let it be what our plans are for the evening and also let kitchen be prepared with pre-set orders.
Make no more changes to the dining experience. It's vacation, take your sweet time.
Carnival has taken away the tablecloths, paper menus and several items that were standard on the menu that includes Specialty restaurants not to mention no more late night pizza.
The cutbacks with them never seems to end.
This might just be me, but my feeling is if you don't have the time to come and have a leisurely meal, maybe you need to look into doing the buffet tonight or a quick-service casual. There definitely are nights I just want a burger and to go lounge somewhere, but that's not the MDR staff's responsibility to accommodate my mood.
90 minutes seems good for me. Carnivals dining room always feels chaotic to me
YES please, order in advance, 45 minutes in and out sounds great. We chat all day and don't really need more than 45 minutes of eating and chatting. I do have family and friends that view dinner as an event and want to hang out for a couple of hours, they drive me crazy. There are so many other things to do on a cruise.
Having recently cruised on Royal Caribbean 10 times in the last 6 months I can say that 60 to 80 minutes is the sweet spot for us. We are going on Allure of the Seas in early January and vloging about the food service not only about the length but also how to eat on the healthy side compared to the typical eating experience. Should be interesting! Thanks JJ and happy holidays to everyone!
90 mins is the max. Recently on MSC during breakfast, I don't know what happened, but they forgot me, so I got up and was proceeding to walk out when the manager on duty asked what the issue was and begged for me to come back.
For just a straight 3-course dinner with no entertainment/show in the MDR, I think 60-75 minutes is a good length of time, and anything more than 90 minutes is too long. (Now, if you're deliberately savoring your meal and taking your time and socializing, etc., then that's a different story, of course, but at the same time you shouldn't be closing down the place each night. There are bars, lounges, etc., that you can continue your socializing in for the night instead of holding up your table for hours.)
I agree with 75 minutes. We always check out the menu before we go and order right away.
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1 hour is perfect, for the most part we know what we want to order ahead of time.
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To me, 1 - 2 hrs is fine for me. If I know there is another event we would like to attend that may interfere with a long dinner, then we would opt for buffet or some other shorter time option for dinner.
90 minutes is perfect! RC's service is way too slow.
1 hour is perfect.
Wow we love a nice long dinner it’s part of vacation if you don’t go to the buffet
The perfect amount of time for dinner on a cruise ship in the main dining room should be between 1 hour and an hour and a half Max
I would think that if someone is in a hurry they could grab a bite at the buffet. An alternative could be an all in one service like provided in Business class on airlines, known as express service. I suppose you could always ask your server to bring your app, salad and entree all in one shot. Myself I’m in no hurry as long as the wait between courses isn’t unreasonable. I think the MDR experience should always be grand and luxurious.
On Princess, the app has a dining preferences page where you can mark slow, medium, or fast. I travel solo and mark fast. I am not concerned so much with the number of minutes but with the amount of time between courses. Eating alone, I like the appetizer to come shortly after I order and for each successive course to come shortly after I've finished the one before. I may linger over dishes, but I generally don't want to wait long from one to the next. I do expect a specialty restaurant meal to take longer and budget my time accordingly. And if I'm eating in the buffet I may deliberately read a chapter of my book between courses.
90 minutes max in the dining room. How about 2 designated DRs, one for order ahead service with shorter dining time (an hour maybe) and one for those who want to sit and order off the menu. We are loyal to Royal and haven't had any issues, for the most part, with the dining room service. Great question!!!
75 minutes is good for us!
the pre order and 45 minutes is only good if you are served your meal immediately. Then it's 40 minutes or so to eat, talk, have a drink.. that kind of stuff. I don't see this as a cutback, I see this as staff not having to work until 3 am with the cleaning of the dining room (especially the dishes).
I get the anytime dining because it is better to time yourself for the shows because going to a 6pm dining and being there till 8pm is not something I enjoy but there probably is people who want the 2 hour dining experience.
90 min for most of our meals. We consider dining an experience not to be rushed and also eat more slowly when on vacation. We would definitely do the order ahead of possible and could eat in 60-75 min if that were the case.
we love the sit down dinners in dining room. 1 to 1/2 hours is good. after that it is too long for comfort. we have been on disney, carnival, royal, and princess. only one tooooo long was the inaugural of carnival panorama. but, that is expected on first sailing until kinks are out. we did panorama this august with 16 family members and it was fantastic...
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An hour would be perfect but I would go with 45 mins.- 75 mins. Like you two, we usually decide what to order prior to going to the dining room as it does save a lot of time.
1 hour is fine if we can order drink and meal as soon as waiter comes to your table.
I don’t mind the wait time in Carnival’s MDR. My husband, on the other hand, has issues with the wait time. He doesn’t like waiting more than 15-20 minutes for our food.
1-1/2 hours unless you’re doing some type of “experience” like 360 or a chef’s table. I don’t want to wait all evening for dinner, but I do not want to feel pressured to gobble it down and be kicked out.
an hour and a half is about correct
NO more than 2 hours for dinner, if you sit with a larger table they bring everything at the same time. The bar slow the service down.
I would say 1 hour, 45 minutes would do but I would not be able to enjoy desert with a cup of coffee and chat with friends...Never had a bad dinning situation. LOVE your vids!
It really depends on the size of the group you're dining with. However, I believe believe at least 90 minutes is good. I don't want to feel rushed on vacation.
You know what doesn’t make sense ??? Most of the food in main dining rooms is “banquet style”. Cold dishes are preplated for wait staff to grab and go. And many entrees are off a steam table. The only way I can see carnival doing this is to reduce waste by knowing entrees in advance.
Between 75 and 90 minutes. Big salads, fettuccine, and onion soup take longer to eat than a shrimp cocktail with 5 small shrimp. So, time needed depends on the appetizers.
We can usually get in and out within an hour and that’s about what we prefer most nights. My car Royal Caribbean has the worst dining room experience overall.
I agree w/75 mins.
60 minutes is perfect. I don’t want to just sit there. I am like you, check the menu before going in.
My family’s FAVORITE part of our Royal Caribbean Cruise last summer was the MAIN DINING Room …yea that’s right. We all looked forward to meeting up “later tonight at dinner” while goofing around all day doing whatever we all wanted to during the day. So what ever RC is currently doing as far as time goes for the Main dining is perfect IMO. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
Hi, JJCruise ❤. I think an hour is enough time. I've been on Carnival and thank goodness, we didn't have to wait long for dinner in the MDR.
I agree with both of you. I think an hour and 15 minutes is fine and enough time to spend in the dining room. Any more than that is a waste of time, and I would be concerned that I would miss any type of show or entertainment that I want to see.
I do not want to spend more than an hour and 15 minutes in the dining room. Happy holidays. 2025 will be the year that you guys hit 100K subscribers. I can feel it!!!!🎉❤🎊
As a solo cruiser I always opt for a shared table if available. It gives me a chance to meet others onboard and I prefer for the dinner service to not be rushed. It is often my evenings "main event". Perhaps they could have a set dining time for those in a hurry with express service including pre-ordering before you arrive. Personally, I am on vacation and have no reason to hurry anywhere at dinner time. I may be the odd man out on this subject as I also like to dress a little nicer for dinner at the MDR.
45 minutes is too tight if you are enjoying the multiple courses, especially desert course with an after dinner coffee. We are Platinum on Carnival and can say they seem to have actually gotten a little slower with MDR service , don’t see them pulling off 45 minutes with all courses offered.
We enjoy our dining time and have never worried about how long it takes. Of course, we would be annoyed if we didn't always have a drink iin front of us duriing that wait. Our group has cruises together for several years now, and we are never in a rush to do anything after dinner. We enjoy the slow pace and haviing time between courses so we don't feel rushed or stuffed.
1 1/2 hrs is plenty.
We haven’t set foot in a MDR on any line since 2015. The long waits along with the menu cutbacks make it a total waste of time. We do a lot of specialty and of course lido or on carnival guys is usually open til 6.
On our last cruise, there were people sitting before us and we got our food first and I can see they were getting frustrated so I went up the the waiter and asked why their food was taking so long. Their food finally came and they ended up not eatting and walked out cuz the food took so long (Carnival miracle)
I say an hour, maybe 1.5.....but thats only if im getting my food in a timely manner, and actually have a drink. Half the time my drink wont come till halfway througgh.😮
I agree…… 75 mins is plenty
75 minutes, I guess you do not want dessert on Norweigan
We sail on the Enchanted Princess the full month of February this year. The first of the three voyages, we had a great team serving us dinner, every night at the same table and time. We asked to be placed in the same area for round two. (This was our 30th cruise with Princess.) We lasted two nights and then told the head waiter we’d be dining elsewhere for the rest of that voyage. It was the slowest, the staff didn’t speak English and got orders wrong throughout the full meal. We were traveling the first two voyages with another couple and they agreed. The third round had us by ourselves. We found out that our favorite waiter had been promoted to one of the specialty restaurants. So, we visited him there three times! It was well worth the extra dollars to do so. On other nights, we went to the anytime dining room and got seated right away. It was ok, but we’d been spoiled! We will be on a different ship soon so we will be at the starting point once again. . .
Too short!!!! I eat very slowly. Another reason we Xed Carnival years ago. Not going to any restaurant on any cruise I have to chock down food.
Dinner: 1 to 1 1/2 hours, no longer
Keep in mind that Carnival doesn’t send the survey to 100% of passengers. It’s our last choice among cruise lines. They would know that if we ever received a survey. 😅
We have found NCL to be on the low side of the scale. Not for us !! 90 minutes is about right.
a gratuity is defined - something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service. Everyone knows that if it is not given voluntarily... it's a service fee. I believe that all cruise lines should get rid of the gratuity and pay their employees more...and put it in the cost of the cruise. The whole gratuity thing is really getting tired. All-inclusive resorts have been doing this for years...and so has Virgin. Make cruises all-inclusive... I'll take that cruise.
We think 45 minutes to an hour would be best for us, but we wouldn’t want to force others who enjoy a longer dining experience to be rushed.
90 minutes is perfect, no longer
1 1/2 max..have had good and bad service..not unique I feel to a particular ship. There are good wait teams and not so good. Last cruise we enjoyed folks at our table so not a big deal. But indeed skipped dessert most nights because slow service. We opted to just do buffet when we knew we wanted to get out at a specific time.
55-75mins is what is should take for a serve in a nice resturant...this isnt Denny's.
I think 75 to 90 minutes
45 minutes is doable with only 1 or 2 ppl. 2 -6 is gonna take minimum an hour 15. More than 6 will be 90minutes minimum. 45 minutes a bit rushed with more than 2 ppl. Pre/ordering might work for 2 providing everyone is one time. Question would the food be hot 🤔? Folks gotta be on time and slow kitchen makes a difference.
Good video! I would prefer a maximum dining time of 1.5 hours. I've been in situations where it took 2 hours, which is ridiculous because if you have a show to watch afterward, you might miss it. Your video reminded me of when I went to a specialty restaurant on Celebrity Cruises, Le Petit Chef. The experience was amazing, but the whole dinner lasted over 2 hours because they had to wait until every table finished their dish before playing the next animated show. It was disappointing. For example, you'd get your appetizer and then wait 45 minutes for the entrée, followed by another 30 minutes for dessert. Anyways, it would be nice to pre-book your meals beforehand at the main dining room to save time.
60 to 75 mins tops!
An hour to 90 mins for dining.
We can do an hour just fine.
I would love to be in and out of the dining room in 1 hour. Honestly, the menus in the MDR are not exciting enough that they should be treated like a special event. Now, if I'm dining in a high-end specialty restaurant, that's a different story and I'm fine with dinner taking longer because this is "dining" not "eating." I've only sailed on RC so far, so I can't compare dining experiences. I rarely eat in the MDR because I buy specialty dinner packages, however, things will be different on my 6 day cruise with RC in Feb because I was so disappointed in many of the specialty restaurants on my last cruise that I'm going to try cruising using all the free venues and seeing if there's that much of a difference. Great content. Happy Holidays to both of you.
45 minutes is plenty. I hate long times because we miss the shows and entertainment
For me, an hour is perfect
About 90 minutes to talk and unwind and relax and digest.
I think the dinners should be given the option.
1 1/2 max.
1 hour is perfect for us.
I think 1 hour would be good for me
Yep, 1 hour is good.
At least an hour
We like an hour at maximum! We take my mom and she can sit too long.
NCL dining room time takes to long
1 1/2 hours is about perfect. 45 minutes would be too rushed.
I think an hour is great
I like no more than 90 minutes....75 is perfect...
also 75 minutes
1 1/2 hour is nice. More than 2 hours is too long.
I think too long would be over an hour and a half
1 hour