37 Days and Counting

Had a email question about how FreeStyle Dining works - so if one person has a question that usually means someone else is wondering also.

Essentially FreeStyle is like being at home and deciding to go out for dinner (or lunch or breakfast).  You decide where you want to go and then go whenever you decide.  Now on a ship with 2000 passengers, if everyone decides to eat dinner at say at 5:15 pm it is the same as arriving at your hometown restaurant without a reservation.  There will be a line.  You could try the other main dining room (there are 2 of them) or you could wait in line.  Or, you could reserve a table for X people at X time, and come back at that time.

If you were at home, you might call your friends and say "lets meet at the Aqua Restaurant at 6:30 pm."  When you meet your party at the entrance to the restaurant, they will seat you as a group.  To make sure they will have a table ready, call the dining room (phone list in your room) and make a reservation.

 If you don't call your freinds you will be seated at whatever table becomes available, and you will have new faces at your table to meet and greet. 

Evie and I have done both and sometimes the new faces become new friends.  Other times the new faces don't "click" and are quickly forgotten at the stage show after dinner!