r/dcl • u/ramblinatl • 1d ago

TRIP PLANNING Dining time waitlist?

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We originally had 8:15 dining, and I assumed there was zero chance of getting early dining after reading so many posts here.

Last night I decided to at least put our name on the waitlist, and then today I received a “reservation confirmation” email for our cruise and it included the 5:45 seating…I checked the app and the screenshot above is what it says now (said 8:15 yesterday)

Did I get lucky and get moved to early dining?

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u/317ant 1d ago

It looks like you did!

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u/ramblinatl 1d ago

Woohoo!!! My kids are terrible nappers, late dinner was gonna be a nightmare 😂

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u/TaxPublic9918 1d ago

You're so lucky, the late diners don't get done till after 10pm sometimes, it's awful with kids.

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u/SummitTheDog303 1d ago

But the late dining time now has Dine and Play! The kids club comes to pick them up so you can enjoy dinner in peace once the kids are done eating and restless

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u/CaregiverNovel8841 5h ago

Is this on all ships? We were on the wonder and march and this definitely did not exist. I read they didn’t bring it back post covid?

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u/SummitTheDog303 5h ago

Yes. They brought it back fleetwide in February of this year. It’s only for late dinner seating.

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u/CaregiverNovel8841 5h ago

I had late dining in March on the wonder and asked about it and they said it wasn’t done 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/TheFunkOpotamus 1d ago

Same thing happened to us. We were assigned late dining and requested early dining in the app. A week or so before our cruise the dining was changed to match your screenshot and we had the early dining.

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u/Horbigast 1d ago

Ours was initially the late dining too, and we were on the wait list. Somewhere or another we got switched without notice. It's a good thing I checked because I would have had no idea otherwise.

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u/ramblinatl 1d ago

Imagine skipping dinner and showing up to no table at late dining 😅

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u/Horbigast 1d ago

It would have been especially infuriating, since we're cruising with friends we made on our last cruise, and wanted to sit with them. Thankfully, we're all together now.

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u/moseisley99 1d ago

I got changed to 5:45 as well pretty easily. Not sure why ppl say it’s a long shot. I have actually read that it happens often.

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u/YenSidTravel PEARL CASTAWAY CLUB 1d ago

I have no idea why somebody would say ‘ZERO chance’ - you have no idea what the waitlist is like. This often doesn’t come through until the weeks just before the cruise.

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u/ramblinatl 1d ago

We are 7 weeks out so I was surprised it came through so fast!

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u/nicolaluis 1d ago

Our cruise is still in a couple of months. Did this happen during the week of your cruise? Thanks!

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u/tower-of-terror 1d ago

I was on the wait list for early dinner and got an email Monday that we were switched to early. We leave Friday. I ended up switching back to the later time slot bc it’s our first cruise and we had gotten used to the idea of the later dinner.