Dining time question

Just returned off of our first RCL and we had my time dining and loved it. Anthem of the Seas has 4 MDR. 2 for set time dining and 2 for my time all with the same menu. When we walked up for seating we never had to wait more than 1 or 2 minutes. We were always asked if we had a dining room preference and or preferred waiter. In order to expedite things that would also seat my time diners in the set time venues if the tables were not used. It was great.

All the other lines stole the Free Style dining from NCL. :) They had it long before any others. RCI is the same now. We book a table shortly after we get on the ship. If we like the staff and location, we book ahead for other nights, assuming we know what time we want to eat for those times. No problems.

I sign up for anytime dining on just about every cruise that I take including the one in January 2019. I am never rushed. In fact eating in the MDR mostly is too leisurely for me.

thank you.

Thank you. We consider ourselves to be fun people to hang out with and like up best people so hopefully we get at least another couple at our table that are the same.

Thank you. That is reassuring.

Don't worry too much about it. Most of the passengers are bearable, and many are entertaining and fun to be around. It is only a small minority that are boorish, and my experience has been that most of that minority was on a single line.

Agree with Auntie...you don't have to put up with it...finish your meal, or not....theres lots of other venues available, no matter what the cruise line...but scrounge up the maître d...he's usually at the entrance or "mixing", but any staffer at the front can get him/her...and yes, be polite, and ask him for a new table...nothing he hasn't heard a thousand times b4...and yes, we've only had to do it once, but not on NCL...we always get a table for two..

Don't be! We have had some great table mates! However, if you find that you cannot deal with the people you are seated with, go to the Matre'D and ask for a different table. Be polite and if at all possible you will be reassigned. We have done this and it presented no problem for the staff. They will do their best to seat you with people that you match "on paper". We all know that sometimes that works out well and others not so much. If you are changed, you could end up a table of others who asked to be changed. This happened to us once, and it was one of the best tables ever.

Now I'm scared ..... we put in for early dining and am wondering if that is a wise choice. This is our first cruise and I'd hate to be stuck with weird or obnoxious people all week. And that would be just our luck. We are happy, like to joke around type people but not over the top. We aren't loud or big drinkers. Just your normal (so we'd like to think) kind of people.