Anyone else not into the dinner shows on new ships?

[Cfabar1]

We ended up changing our cruise from the Wish partly because we don't care for Marvel and really didn't want to have to do dinner there. The show just looked annoying and so cramped. We know we love the Fantasy, we enjoy talking to each other at dinner and I'm feeling really tired of everything being screens. She did okay with Crush night, since it more ambient for most of the dinner. Arendelle would have been fun but I feel like two dinner shows on one ship is a bit much for such short sailings.

Yeah... I don't see Marvel aging well over time... We shall see...

 

[phinz]

You have choices for dinner just like you have choices for rides at wdw. Two types of Adults restaurants. Its very quiet in them and the service is another level above the rotational dining rooms (food quality is 3 times higher as well). And Top deck on wish is also quite good. The pub also serves decent food for dinner. You have plenty of options.

And its only 2 meals out of 9 in a 3 day cruise that has the shows. If it was like 6 I could maybe get the complaints. But 2? When you can easily skip them? At that point it seems like complaints are not so much about one having to put up with them (cos they can easily be skipped or tolerated given how few there are) but more about wanting to stop others from enjoying them.

Ahhhhhh... I see. It's apparent you haven't done a 7-day or longer cruise.

I don't want bar food. I don't want quick service fast food. I don't want to spend exorbitant amounts for Enchante more than once every few cruises. Good luck on getting more than one reservation for Palo, given that you're only allowed to make one before your cruise date. Sure, they usually have extra Palo nights available but there's no guarantee that will be the case, and if an ordinary meal is included with my cruise why would I want to spend $100+ a night just to not have some video screen shouting at me while the lights are flashing on and off? I just want a nice meal without having to yell at my partner or use the "grunt and point at the menu" method to place my orders. Again, I don't need entertainment. I was raised to not have video screens, books, etc. at the table. That was for catching up on the day's events and interacting with your table mates, especially if you're forced to sit with people you don't know.

 

[Scalemaster34]

I think the best option is to try another cruise line. Disney is going to Disney. Sometimes you have to mix it up. I was bored to death on my last Disney Caribbean cruise. Same menus, same shows, same Trivia. Any DCL cruises going forward will be port intensive....which really limits the selection.

I like DCL for other reason... thankfully there are the classic ships.

 

[TillyMarigold]

I just got off the Treasure. My favorite restaurant was 1923, but my husband and two kids (12 and 4) emphatically disagreed and preferred Plaza de Coco, where we ate 5 times (embarkation lunch, 1st show day 1, pirate night day 4, 2nd show day 7, and debarkation breakfast). We enjoyed the second show at Marvel, although we didn't like the first one very much, and the restaurant itself is strangely laid out, weirdly lit, and hard for the servers to navigate.

But I appreciate that not everyone has small kids who need their attention captured by a show to enable them to sit through dinner. (BTW, the dinners all seemed very fast to us; we had the 5:45 seating and were out every night between 7:00-7:15.)