Traditional Dinner on Star - which dining room?

How do we know which dining room we will have dinner - Portofino, Capri, or Amalfi? :D

Alaska Northbound - May 2018 (110 days and counting down!!!)

Amalfi, that’s where we were. Awkward to get too [emoji17]

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The traditional dining room on most Princess ships are located on deck 6 aft but can have different names. This dining room is only accessible by stairs or elevator unlike the midship anytime dining rooms which are accessible from the atrium.

How do we know which dining room we will have dinner - Portofino, Capri, or Amalfi? :D

 

Alaska Northbound - May 2018 (110 days and counting down!!!)

It will be printed on your seapass card..

You'll either be aft deck 6, which is always traditional seating, early and late or mid-ship deck 5, which is frequently early traditional seating followed by anytime dining after about 7...

As above, it is printed on your card. And as above, one of the dining rooms is a pain to get there--it is a "you can't get there from here" situation so you end up going up to a different deck in order to go down to the dining room. THe others are easy.

As above' date=' it is printed on your card. And as above, one of the dining rooms is a pain to get there--it is a "you can't get there from here" situation so you end up going up to a different deck in order to go down to the dining room. THe others are easy.[/quote']

It's not that much work to go to the Promenade deck, walk aft and ride down on the elevator or walk down the stairs. If you don't want to go that route, walk to the aft elevators from almost any deck and get on the ones that go to deck 6 (2 out of 4).:)

... get on the ones that go to deck 6 (2 out of 4).:)

That's one of the problems. The other is that the elevator lobby in front of the Amalfi on the Star is so small it quickly fills with people in the half hour before early seating and the crowd spills up the stairs to the Deck 7 elevator lobby, and people coming down on the elevators have no room to get off the elevator into the deck 6 lobby.

We learned to work around it by timing our trip aft on deck 7 to arrive at about 5:35 by which time the crowd was at least moving.

That's one of the problems. The other is that the elevator lobby in front of the Amalfi on the Star is so small it quickly fills with people in the half hour before early seating and the crowd spills up the stairs to the Deck 7 elevator lobby, and people coming down on the elevators have no room to get off the elevator into the deck 6 lobby.

 

We learned to work around it by timing our trip aft on deck 7 to arrive at about 5:35 by which time the crowd was at least moving.

We don’t have any mobility issues so we use the stairs so others can use the elevators which are very crowded at dinner time.

It's not that much work to go to the Promenade deck, walk aft and ride down on the elevator or walk down the stairs. If you don't want to go that route, walk to the aft elevators from almost any deck and get on the ones that go to deck 6 (2 out of 4).:)

It is when you have a family member who walks with braces and a walker and can't use stairs. No, it isn't "that much" work; it's more a matter of remembering what you have to do to get there from where you are. Not a problem from cabin to dining room; more of an issue in engaging the brain when going from a public area to the dining room.

Were surprised at the awful design of the forward dining room on the Star for late traditional. It is only serviced by two elevators, instead of four like the others in the class -- I think the Golden is the same. It was very difficult for people with mobility problems. Before dinner when people were coming from the Elite/Platinum party on 15 (or somewhere up there) there was no hope of catching an elevator from other floors.

You do mean Aft DR, correct? I agree the elevator issue and odd location was a task to get to certain times.

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You do mean Aft DR, correct? I agree the elevator issue and odd location was a task to get to certain times./quote]

 

oops Aft -- sorry about that :)

Thanks everyone!

How do we know which dining room we will have dinner - Portofino, Capri, or Amalfi? :D

 

Alaska Northbound - May 2018 (110 days and counting down!!!)

Amalfi dinning room deck 6 aft is for tradition dinning. The other dinning rooms are anytime dinning.