Anyone else not into the dinner shows on new ships?

[DCLMP]

Certainly tasted like it!

The stuff they serve at the Cantina is not. If they actually mashed up fresh avocados it might motivate me to try that ship, bad dinner shows and all.

 

[phinz]

You dont want to be entertained when you are literally paying lots money to be entertained by a musical entertainment company? Its like going to WDW and complaining about there being rides. Stay at home then and save the money.

No. I don’t need “entertainment” to enjoy a meal with my loved ones. I don’t need some canned loudspeaker yelling at me while trying to convey the choices I’ve made from the same menu DCL has had for a decade and a half at the top of my lungs while trying to be heard. I’m from a generation that didn’t require screens to socialize.

If I go to Disney World I can choose to ride rides or not ride rides. It doesn’t affect the experience ultimately because I have **choices.** You’re comparing apples to bars of soap. They aren’t even remotely the same thing. But I am **forced** to go to the MDRs because Disney has no other options for specialty dining other than your one Palo and one Enchante/Remy dining night, at an extra cost, that you are allocated, and that’s if the name-on-a-stick and paid-too-much-for-a-room-so-that-they-can-be-entered-into-the-cabana-lottery people haven’t swallowed all of those reservations up before Platinum booking time starts. No dinner buffet or even sit down meal with green servers like they used to do in Cabanas, but you can sure get children’s menu chicken fingers and pizza on the pool deck or from room service.

I cruise because I like to cruise, and when I choose to cruise Disney it’s because they, at least in the past, are reliable when it comes to service, though that has palpably changed as they expand the fleet at a rate that sees them filling positions without stressing the service aspect and without adequate training. I don’t cruise Disney because I want dinner theatre.