Michcruiser75

We tried 5:15, but to come in from an Excursion or if you're in the pool you're ending your day by 4:00 so you can go shower and dress for dinner previous we tried the 7:45 but that was too late..it was not "fun" it was a chore. In this Cruise half of our group went to 5:15 the other half to 7:45 it worked for no one. Your point about today's Cruisers addresses additional issues. Americans in particular have gotten far less formal, Generations younger than mine (Boomer) do not dress for dinner, nor even have dinner at a dinner table, and eat in restaurants weekly. The cost of bringing extra luggage for formal/dresswear is cost prohibitive with the airlines fees This Cruise, my group opted for attending two formal nights and wear dressy/casual. The biggest issue was the time of dinners. Other Cruise Lines do dinner differently some of our group/family & friends have chosen to cruise with them instead.

I would rather see something innovative utilizing the Dining Rooms in 4 seatings at 5, 6, 7, 8 Smaller number of diners at each hour, group dining staff into 2 service teams A) 5pm & 7pm and B) 6pm & 8:00 pm. Each dining time still receives a 2-hour window, with RC two tiers of dining rooms available there is certainly enough seating capacity The sheer numbers of people who want MyTime Dining truly tells the story of how unhappy passengers are with either a very early dining time at 5:15pm or very late 7:45pm As a long time Cruiser the numbers of passengers utilizing the dining room dwindle daily.. to the point on my fall 2023 Cruise the dining room was actually calling passengers asking them to come back as so few were showing up, we were asked if something was wrong ie staff, food... the only thing that was wrong was scheduling. Any restaurant who has such an observable loss of business would have made the changes long ago.