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I'm still not comfortable with "Anytime" on Hal. Real Bad experience on a 5 day mess last year made us try to book early seating on last falls 17 dayer to Hawaii on the Koningsdam. That was not possible to do so we were waitlisted and put into Anytime. When we boarded we made arrangements first thing with a M'D and after the first evening were assigned a table. So to you question. It's obvious that a lot of folks want to east at "Dinner time" and thats the 6-7 pm and things work out over time around that. Some Anytime pax then come earlier and the some come later and things flow a lot better. That's just from my observations while dining and leaving after early seating. Folks came from deck below line for anytime pretty soon after our early seating closed so they obviously used the empty seating in Early to work in those that were waiting below. So it does work out but I'm still not willing to try it and have booked early once again. There is of course the option always of using the buffet to eat exactly when you want. Hope that helps.BTW early is waitlisted already for us for an OCT cruise once again.. I agree with seamom if it's just two people there seems to be fewer issues and if you are regular you can get fitted in easier.Talking with staff it was pretty easy to ascertain that we Pax were not the only people not completely happy with the "System" . A full ship (Koningsdam for sure) meant there would be some issues by just doing the math. There are only two Main dining rooms in play and Deck 2 was "Anytime" Deck 3 was fixed.
I'm still not comfortable with "Anytime" on Hal. Real Bad experience on a 5 day mess last year made us try to book early seating on last falls 17 dayer to Hawaii on the Koningsdam. That was not possible to do so we were waitlisted and put into Anytime. When we boarded we made arrangements first thing with a M'D and after the first evening were assigned a table. So to you question. It's obvious that a lot of folks want to east at "Dinner time" and thats the 6-7 pm and things work out over time around that. Some Anytime pax then come earlier and the some come later and things flow a lot better. That's just from my observations while dining and leaving after early seating. Folks came from deck below line for anytime pretty soon after our early seating closed so they obviously used the empty seating in Early to work in those that were waiting below. So it does work out but I'm still not willing to try it and have booked early once again. There is of course the option always of using the buffet to eat exactly when you want. Hope that helps.
BTW early is waitlisted already for us for an OCT cruise once again.. I agree with seamom if it's just two people there seems to be fewer issues and if you are regular you can get fitted in easier.
Talking with staff it was pretty easy to ascertain that we Pax were not the only people not completely happy with the "System" . A full ship (Koningsdam for sure) meant there would be some issues by just doing the math. There are only two Main dining rooms in play and Deck 2 was "Anytime" Deck 3 was fixed.
