Welcome to the Royal Crime Blog podcast, your week can look into the world of Royal Caribbean Cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 538.

And this week, we're going to be answering your Royal Caribbean Cruise questions.

We've got a lot of questions built up, so I figured we'd answer them.

Here we go.

All right, friends, I'm answering a listener of email, starting with an email from Nicole.

I'm listening to all your old episodes, primed for my cruise in 30 days, and I wanted to comment something you've said many times.

It could be that you changed your mind since then, though, because this is a few years ago.

You've said that you prefer traditional dining, so that they have the same weight sap every day,

and you get to know and bring out things you like, But you can have the same experience in My Time Dining. Since the Kids Club opens at 7, we make My Time Dining reservations every day at 715 and 7.30. They sit us at the same table and we have the same weights app every night. DJ and Mariner was an amazing couple of years ago, and we're still Facebook friends,

plus no waiting because we have reservations. Thanks for all that you do. Nicole, thanks to email.

So I still prefer traditional dining. My time dining, you're right. The scenario you describe,

being able to customize the time exactly to the time that you need certainly works. I'm not denying that one bit. The problem with my time dining, I have two problems with my time dining. And this is just a math thing, so don't, like Nicole, I'm not trying to convince you that you should do something differently. One, it does still require, like if you're going to do it right, you're going to make reservations. Because if you don't make reservations, it can really take a little bit of a while, especially if you want to eat dinner before, about 8 o'clock or so. So you're still like, it's an extra step involved with it. That's not a big step, and you're doing it the right way, but it's still a step. And two, and I would say more importantly, reservations are not, I have just seen some gargantuan

lines from my time dining when they open up. In the first hour that the dining room is open,

there are two lines for my time dining in general. There's people with the reservations,

people without. And I remember when I was on, I think it was wonder this is, the line for

my time dining went all the way back into the casino. I mean, it was,

it was really backed up. And I was really surprised how much. And it just seems like every time I

walk by the main dining room at randomly, this is not a scientific survey by any means, just,

you know, an observation. But I'll see oftentimes very long lines, even for those people with reservations. Whereas

when I have my traditional dining time, there's no line. I mean, until they open the door anyway,

just simply walk in and go to right to your table. So I can appreciate what you're saying. In fact,

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