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From Celebrity's website under checkin:

"You can experience several unique specialty restaurants and enjoy great savings when you purchase one of our Specialty Dining Packages for your cruise vacation aboard a Celebrity cruise ship. Awaken your inner foodie on a culinary journey while experiencing impeccable service and world-class cuisine. Restaurant selection varies by ship.

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When booking your package, you will select a time for your dinner the first night in a specialty restaurant we've selected for you. Upon embarkation, you will be contacted by one of our Maitre D's to arrange the rest of your reservations. Or, you could simply go to one of our specialty restaurant reservation desks to reserve the rest. Specialty Dining Packages must be booked at least four days prior to boarding and may not be available for every sail date.

Just sayin'

If you read the detail on the packages, you can pick the time for the first night of your package, then the subsequent ones will be assigned to your or you can see the maitre d' when you board the ship. Since those that bought the individual nights often take the more desirable times, you may be left with only late seatings. If that is okay with you - then the packages are great! If it isn't, then you may end up with a 9 or 9:30PM dining time which is far to late for us. The bustle on the first day of the cruise to get to the maitre'd is daunting to try to schedule this.