Dining preferences

[Suekersh]

We now much prefer freedom dining. Please ourselves when we eat and can choose table size. Mix it up by using select dining once or twice a week. Hubby likes the Indian buffet so I generally join him unless I get a better offer, but that is the only time I eat dinner in there. Lunch usuall MDR or on the balcony, Breakfast is usually room service and twice a week MDR for scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on Sunday and Eggs Benedict on Monday.

Regarding Freedom dining we find the service superior to club dining simply because the tables are not all filled in the same section at the same time. Either we have been very lucky in our 20 plus cruises we have chosen freedom dining or others have been very unlucky. My pescetarian diet is also well catered for freedom. The restaurant manager comes round every evening with the following days menu and takes my order. When we arrive in the restaurant the maitre D who allocates our table lets him know we have arrived and he gives our waiter my order. Works very well and the food is cooked fresh.

[anniec]

Breakfast and lunch in buffet (HUGE mistake, as my idea of a salad does not include much greenery). Dinner mainly in speciality, occasionally in buffet or room service, never in MDR.

[oldbluefox]

it seems ironic that those of us who book saver fares are not allowed to request a preference for second sitting considering that is the least popular option.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I think it varies from cruise to cruise Foxy. We've done cruises where second sitting is the one that is oversubscribed. I think it depends on the demographic. The older the average age the more of them want to eat early.

[Quizzical Bob]

it seems ironic that those of us who book saver fares are not allowed to request a preference for second sitting considering that is the least popular option.

We had a saver fare on Adonia last year and were allocated first sitting but the restaurant manager was only too willing to change to second since there was a big queue wanting to change the other way.

[barney]

We now much prefer freedom dining. Please ourselves when we eat and can choose table size. Mix it up by using select dining once or twice a week. Hubby likes the Indian buffet so I generally join him unless I get a better offer, but that is the only time I eat dinner in there. Lunch usuall MDR or on the balcony, Breakfast is usually room service and twice a week MDR for scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on Sunday and Eggs Benedict on Monday.

It sounds like you do EXACTLY what we do Sue

There's me thinking it's just us !

[Suekersh]

We now much prefer freedom dining. Please ourselves when we eat and can choose table size. Mix it up by using select dining once or twice a week. Hubby likes the Indian buffet so I generally join him unless I get a better offer, but that is the only time I eat dinner in there. Lunch usuall MDR or on the balcony, Breakfast is usually room service and twice a week MDR for scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on Sunday and Eggs Benedict on Monday.

It sounds like you do EXACTLY what we do Sue

There's me thinking it's just us !

We think we are Two of a Kind as well.

[qbman1]

Absolutely, Monday breakfast in MDR with eggs benedict is a MUST !! They usually throw one in as a lunch dish too, but on a crumpet. Quite like kedgeree day too - I try for curry for breakfast, lunch and dinner !!

[Mervyn and Trish]

And the rest of the day in the loo!

[qbman1]

It's better if it's a sea day !!

[Silver_Shiney]

Absolutely, Monday breakfast in MDR with eggs benedict is a MUST !! They usually throw one in as a lunch dish too, but on a crumpet. Quite like kedgeree day too - I try for curry for breakfast, lunch and dinner !!

You'd have loved the function nights in the Officers' and Sergeants' Messes then - the tradition was to serve pea soup and beef curry at 0400

[Ranchi]

Kedgeree is a must. I'll never forget the first time I had it. As a student ( in the 70s) I was visiting friends in Reading and they suggested we visit the Jazz Festival at the Hexagon? The tickets were a bit pricey (grants were tight!... but far more forgiving than current loan system) but in the end we went. I had no real idea about jazz at the time but it was a memorable night. For me the highlight was an older gentleman who was playing clarinet & saxophone in a side venue. His name was Peanuts Hucko ( I later found out he'd played through the war years with Glen Miller Orchestra & later with Benny Goodman). Anyway as the music finished (4:00am)we prepared to drift off, only to be directed to the breakfast room where champagne & kedgeree were being served ( hence the pricey tickets.)Loved jazz & kedgeree ever since. ( can take or leave champagne, though....probably because I can't afford the good stuff!)