Dining on Britannia

[Marmaduke]

Is fixed dining (early and late sitting) still available on Britannia or is it only Freedom/Anytime dining now?

[david63]

16 minutes ago, Marmaduke said:

Is fixed dining (early and late sitting) still available on Britannia

Yes

[Trevor Fountain]

Is there any advantage to choose fixed dining over freedom. or vice versa?

[david63]

There are plenty of aruments for both cases - neither is right and neither is wrong. It all comes down to personal choice.

 

I am sure you will find plenty of discussion on this subject in other topics

[GOQ]

On a Saver fare I assume I will just get what dining arrangement  I am allocated by P&O.

 I prefer freedom dining, if I am allocated a fixed dining time, can I ask for it to be changed ? 

[loveheart]

When do they allocate saver people their dining arrangements. We are a party of 5 all booked on saver fares but at different times. How do we all get to sit together. Is it just a case of going to see the Maitre D on the first night.

[david63]

25 minutes ago, GOQ said:

can I ask for it to be changed ? 

You can ask and it will depend on how full your preferred dining option is as to whether it can/will be changed.

 

10 minutes ago, loveheart said:

How do we all get to sit together. Is it just a case of going to see the Maitre D on the first night.

If you are on Club (fixed) dining then you need to link the bookings, if you are on Freedon dining then you select your party size when you join the queue

[GOQ]

Just now, david63 said:

You can ask and it will depend on how full your preferred dining option is as to whether it can/will be changed.

 

If you are on Club (fixed) dining then you need to link the bookings, if you are on Freedon dining then you select your party size when you join the queue

 Thanks

 

 

Paul

[loveheart]

Just now, david63 said:

You can ask and it will depend on how full your preferred dining option is as to whether it can/will be changed.

 

If you are on Club (fixed) dining then you need to link the bookings, if you are on Freedon dining then you select your party size when you join the queue

Thank you. We have linked our cruises and want to do second fixed sitting so hopefully we can arrange that without too much bother.

[Fionboard]

Second sitting has been much emptier recently so you should be OK

[david63]

41 minutes ago, Fionboard said:

Second sitting has been much emptier recently so you should be OK

But that may be more to do with having less staff available than it being less popular

[Fionboard]

Same staff on each sitting so don't think so. 

 

[Palaceman]

6 hours ago, loveheart said:

When do they allocate saver people their dining arrangements. We are a party of 5 all booked on saver fares but at different times. How do we all get to sit together. Is it just a case of going to see the Maitre D on the first night.

If the need to dine together is that important,  why did you all book a Saver Fare and not Select?

[loveheart]

1 minute ago, Palaceman said:

If the need to dine together is that important,  why did you all book a Saver Fare and not Select?

To save money. I didn't realise at the time that we couldn't pick our preferred dining slot. We have always been able to do it with other cruise lines.