CA cruisers: Will time change affect which dinner rotation you prefer?

[JC Butterfly]

A question just came to me. I live in the central time zone and generally eat dinner around 6:30 p.m. so when I travel to Florida to eat around 6:00 or 7:00 p.m. feels "right".

So when I travel to the West Coast it will be a two hour difference. To eat at the early time, might "feel" more like 4:00ish eating whereas eating at the later dining might actually feel more "normal" to me even though the actual time sounds late.

Maybe I'm rambling, I just don't have that much experience with switching time zones and don't know if that will be done a couple of different times while on the journey?

Any advice?

Brenda

 

[AnnaS]

I am curious too. I have requested early seating. We are from NY and normally eat between 5 and 6 pm. There is a three hours difference (earlier in CA). Will this feel like we are eating at 3 pm?

 

[Sarangel]

We travel across time zones pretty frequently (to WDW & Hawaii) traveling *from* California. I find that the first day or so is a little wierd, but you adapt pretty quickly. This has to do with how your body adapts to the rhythm of the sunlight, I think.

Sarangel

 

[CruisingCA2005]

I am curious too. I have requested early seating. We are from NY and normally eat between 5 and 6 pm. There is a three hours difference (earlier in CA). Will this feel like we are eating at 3 pm?

If you are 3 hours ahead, eating at 6 pm in California will feel like you're eating at 9 pm.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Coming from the UK we are either five or eight hours ahead, so our dinner is lunch, and lunch, breakfast!.

However I find all of the familiy adpat very quickly and the best thing to adjust your body clocks is to do everything as normal, but on local time.

I find staying up the first night to adjust to USA time, and not going ot bed it the best, and changing clocks as soon as you travel the best.

But do everything as normal, but local time!

 

[dletz]

I think it depends on which cruise you are on.

If you're on just the 7 day cruise, you'll be eating 1 1/2 hours later than normal for the early seating. If you normally eat at 6 central then 5:30 CA time will be 7:30 Central.

If you're on East-West, then if you come from Central and get early seating, you will be eating at roughly 1 hour earlier than you normally do, but by the time you get to CA you will be eating 2 hours later than normal. So you normal eat at 6. Early seating is at 5:30 (I think) so out of florida it will be 4:30 at home. As you go west it will then be 5:30 at home, 6:30 at home, and 7:30 at home when you land. When you get home, you will be used to siting down to dinner roughly 1 1/2 hours later than normal.

Coming from Central on West-East if you get early seating you'll start out 2 hours later, and end up 1 hour earlier.

 

[jin diesel]

We're doing late seating just because *early* seating seems too early!!! I have a feeling there will be other things onboard we want to do that might intrude on dinner time.

We generally don't have dinner till 6-7pm (PACIFIC TIME) - so *late* seating (which will "FEEL" like 5:30pm to us West Coasters) should be fine.

The neat thing about late seating is this: if you get hungry before dinner time you can go eat whatever you want till dinner rolls around!!!