Princess - Personal Choice Dining Options

In 2005 on Caribbean Princess we were able to choose Personal Choice
dining and then make a reservation for the same time and the same table
for the remainder of the week. This allowed us to eat earlier than
traditional 2nd seating and still have the same wait staff through the
week. I hear that this option of keeping the same table each night
using Personal Choice no longer exists and that you now have to take
whatever table is avaialble at your requested time.... ?

When we were on the Crown we didn't reserve a PC time but did go at
about the same time each night, give or take 10 minutes, requesting the
same table and server the first 2 nights. after that it was automatic.
We'd show up and they'd tell us to go right to that table, that they
kept it open for us.

Paul


In article <wpGdnVdbh-VXRRzYnZ2dnUVZ_uqvnZ2d@adelphia.com>,
"Caribbean Girl" <noemail@no.com> wrote:

> We just went on the Crown a couple of weeks ago and I spoke to the Maitre'D
> himself the firs day of the cruise. We were a group of 10 and wanted to eat
> at the same table and only four of us were confirmed for early seating
> traditional. He suggested that we take a 6pm res at the PC dining room and
> we would have the same table same waiter all week. I was confused but he
> reasured me. Told me to just give them any of our cabin numbers and it
> would be in the system.
>
> We showed up and the girl at the PC dining room said no way that they do not
> do that. They did not honor it. We had to make sure to show up at six,
> when the dining room was not so busy, to make sure to get one of the few big
> tables on the ship. Even then, we ended up getting different tables and
> waiters every time. But we never had any trouble getting a table right away
> as the dining room was nearly empty at six.
>
>
> "poolboy" <epdudley@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:1166105342.759590.325330@t46g2000cwa. o...
> > In 2005 on Caribbean Princess we were able to choose Personal Choice
> > dining and then make a reservation for the same time and the same table
> > for the remainder of the week. This allowed us to eat earlier than
> > traditional 2nd seating and still have the same wait staff through the
> > week. I hear that this option of keeping the same table each night
> > using Personal Choice no longer exists and that you now have to take
> > whatever table is avaialble at your requested time.... ?
> >

Ray wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:32:04 -0500, Charles
> <fort@his.com.remove.invalid> wrote:
>
> >I am for a complete reversal. Back to all traditional dining. In my
> >opinion Princess was a better cruise line when it was all traditional.
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> FWIW, Princess would like to go 100% to Personal Choice. This has
> been their goal since they introduced this concept.
>
I like the personal choice option, as depending on shore excursions and
other factors we do not always end up eating at the same time every
day. This would mean that early seating would not work on some days and
that later seating would also not work on other days. Also there are
times when we like to eat between the early and late seating, so the
personal choice option works well for us.

Michael

Von Fourche wrote:

> I think you're saying Princess doesn't not have early and late dinning
> and assigned seats every day like Royal Caribbean.

Princess gives you a choice of Traditional Dining or Personal Choice
Dining. With traditional you get either early or late and you have the
same wait staff and table every night.

sue

"Bob Hersey" <REMOVEbobhersey@> wrote in message
news:usGdnQ1cIKWn0hrYnZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@. ..
>
> We are with you, Charles. We will be sailing our 19th Princess Cruise
> Jan.
> 13, '07 on Crown P. We are waitlisted for 2nd seating (151) confirmed for
> PC. We have had nothing but bad luck with PC since its inception and try
> to
> avoid it at all cost. We have seen the best of Princess dinning and the
> worst. For us, PC should be scrapped.
>
> Bob & Hellen Hersey
>
>

I can't imagine why since you can tailor pc dining to reserve a specific
table for the whole cruise at a specific time with chosen people with a
waiter who is efficient. It lets you sample a few waiters & then make a
selection rather than be stuck with someone who is just learning.

"Sue and Kevin Mullen" <kjmullen@> wrote in message
news:4uln5cF193kv7U1@mid....
>
>
> Von Fourche wrote:
>
>> I think you're saying Princess doesn't not have early and late
>> dinning and assigned seats every day like Royal Caribbean.
>
> Princess gives you a choice of Traditional Dining or Personal Choice
> Dining. With traditional you get either early or late and you have the
> same wait staff and table every night.
>
> sue

On our last three Princess cruises we reserved the same waiter, table & time
in the pc dining room. To us it's the same as traditional dining except you
can sample the waiters first & can select you dining companions. I almost
forgot- on the pc dining we didn't get the baked Alaska as they did in the
main dining room and also the interruptions for dining photo's. I wonder if
we missed anything else?

RichC wrote:
> "Sue and Kevin Mullen" <kjmullen@> wrote in message
> news:4uln5cF193kv7U1@mid....
>
>>
>>Von Fourche wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I think you're saying Princess doesn't not have early and late
>>>dinning and assigned seats every day like Royal Caribbean.
>>
>>Princess gives you a choice of Traditional Dining or Personal Choice
>>Dining. With traditional you get either early or late and you have the
>>same wait staff and table every night.
>>
>>sue
>
>
> On our last three Princess cruises we reserved the same waiter, table & time
> in the pc dining room. To us it's the same as traditional dining except you
> can sample the waiters first & can select you dining companions.

From what I have heard and read here, it isn't always possible to
reserve the waiter/table/set time that you want. It seems to vary from
ship to ship or something, maybe the mood of the day.lol

sue

"Sue and Kevin Mullen" <kjmullen@> wrote in message
news:4v08koF19v420U1@mid....
>
>
> From what I have heard and read here, it isn't always possible to reserve
> the waiter/table/set time that you want. It seems to vary from ship to
> ship or something, maybe the mood of the day.lol
>
> sue
>
>

Last year on the Sun Princess it was possible to get the same table & same
time but on the Star Princess they would only seat us at the same time not
guaranteeing the same table. It didn't present any problems on the Island
Princess either.