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Your TA can help change your dinner or you may need to call HAL if you booked directly with them. Another option is to change after you board but unless you are going from assigned dinner times to open seating, this may not be your best option.

Formal nights for women on HAL range from fabulous gowns to a pair of slacks and a nice blouse. You can get great mileage out of a pair of black slacks and a few different tops. For men it ranges from tuxedoes to a suit coat and tie to just a tie. Dinner in the Lido is more casual in dress and pretty much the same food.

Have tried both open seating and assigned dinner options and there is no way we will ever accept a cruise without assigned seating for dinner. Hate that lines like Oceania, etc ONLY have open seating as the service definitely suffers. Love not having to ask for lemons for my water or my cappucino after dinner and just having theses appear. We enjoy getting to know our table mates in more depth and still correspond with some many years after the cruise. How many times do you want to the do the 'where are you from', 'do you have children/grandchildren' conversations at dinner! Enjoy interacting with the same dinner stewards, seeing pictures of their families, hearing about their homelands. When we get back late from an excursion, we can always slip into the Lido or use room service for dinner, so it works well for us.

Hopefully HAL will never drop assigned seating for dinner!