Dining times - Alaskan Wonder

[LC30]

Happy Saturday!

Does anyone know what time main seating and late seating is for the Wonder Alaskan?

 

[xlxo]

If you look at this Navigator.... you can see the first feeding is around 5:45. 2nd feeding is 8:15.
http://disneycruiselineblog.com/wp-...7N-Alaskan-Day-3-Tracy-Arm-Fjord-20150603.pdf

I like the 2nd feeding.

• more time in port, have a local snack before reboarding and let it settle (eg Crab shack).
• 2nd dining is less crowded and rushed
• does DCL have a 3pm high tea? You need extra time post-tea to let that settle.
• clothes are cleaner for shows and photos as you eat afterwards
• kids are taken to the evening program right after the meal
• if you have a cabin near a busy elevator, being a night owl and sleeping after midnight means the corridor is quieter
• you get to sleep in an extra hour on debarkation morning for the 2nd breakfast.
  • more time to pack
  • get to relax and wait in the dining room for your assigned debarkation time
  • really important because all the posted times are Pacific Daylight savings..... you LOSE an hour of sleep leaving Alaskan time the night before

 

[DISNEY FANTASY]

I know this may sound boring, but your health is important!

Current views on eating, weight gain and avoiding high cholesterol, and high blood sugar, is to eat within a 12 hour window, and go by the old saying:- for breakfast eat like a king, for lunch eat like a prince for dinner eat like a pauper. We all eat too much on a cruise, and that does cause issues on acid reflux and weight gain. Whilst one " takeaway " at night may not upset you metabolism, eating late more than once a week causes weight gain. Eating late the Bobby can't process blood sugar or fat and it rises for hours, whereas in the morning, you go back to normal very fast.

Your Body kicks off its day on two things sunlight and breakfast/ first meal, includes coffee and tea or toast.

Your metabolism resets to local hours by sunlight, so do not eat to the time zones at home, but the cruise ship hours.

Now you need time for good to " go down" post any meal, minimum should be two hours, aim for three hours and try to fast over 12 hours overnight, people who do this loose up to 5% body weight. And cholesterol and blood sugar is lower.

So late dinner is very very bad for you.

Add that fizzy soda is bad for you, sugar and calorie free, as they take out healthy bugs " down below" so even calories free soda gets you to increase blood sugar, you will know why many visit the ships medical centre of acid reflux at night.

Try to avoid the free soda.

So " one" night at Palo late doesn't effect you, eating post 8 pm regularly will take a toll on your body, with added soda, and a few try to blame the ships water.

All evidence to support this is just a Google search away.

 

[xlxo]

They say the average cruiser gains 1lb per cruise day. Fitness trackers helps to ensure you get your 10,000 daily steps helps.

 

[Ofinn]

We eat after 8pm every night. We're all thin and healthy. I think you'll survive eating late one week of your life. LOL. Every cruise I've been on late dining is at 815. Enjoy your cruise.

 

[anricat]

So late dinner is very very bad for you.

Blanket statement much?

The amazing thing about humans is the amount of variation within our species. Not only are we adapted to eating a multitude of different types of foods, but we different types of foods (and at different times) affect different people in different ways. In fact, I was just reading a really interesting study wherein some individuals' blood sugar was affected by one food in a dramatic way, whist others were completely unaffected.

Disney Fantasy, you offer some really great advice, but you are always so adamant about this (along with your beliefs about cruising with a veranda in Alaska) and it can really stress people out if they don't have them (early dining and verandahs) and I just don't want to see anyone be caused undue stress as they plan their vacation.

Original poster, whichever dining you get isn't going to ruin your health or your vacation over the course of oneweek. Do what's best for your family.

And for what it's worth, on our last cruise in the caribbean, we remained on central time quite effectively and thoroughly enjoyed our late seating - sun position be damned. For Alaska, we also plan to have late dining, even though we'll be going the other way time-zone wise. We just like the flow of our day with late dining.

 

[Ofinn]

Blanket statement much?

The amazing thing about humans is the amount of variation within our species. Not only are we adapted to eating a multitude of different types of foods, but we different types of foods (and at different times) affect different people in different ways. In fact, I was just reading a really interesting study wherein some individuals' blood sugar was affected by one food in a dramatic way, whist others were completely unaffected.

Disney Fantasy, you offer some really great advice, but you are always so adamant about this (along with your beliefs about cruising with a veranda in Alaska) and it can really stress people out if they don't have them (early dining and verandahs) and I just don't want to see anyone be caused undue stress as they plan their vacation.

Original poster, whichever dining you get isn't going to ruin your health or your vacation over the course of oneweek. Do what's best for your family.

And for what it's worth, on our last cruise in the caribbean, we remained on central time quite effectively and thoroughly enjoyed our late seating - sun position be damned. For Alaska, we also plan to have late dining, even though we'll be going the other way time-zone wise. We just like the flow of our day with late dining.

Maybe people in England all work 9-5 get home by 6:00 and have dinner on the table waiting for them. It's a good thing humans are able to adapt to different work and eating schedules or I would have to quit my job. We are going to Alaska in an inside room with late dining, and I think I'm going to survive just fine.

 

[LC30]

Thanks everyone. Just trying to figure out excursion times and such.

 

[IBelieveInTheMagic]

I would expect it to be as stated, 5:45pm and 8:15pm which is what it's been. Some of the European cruises are slightly different and our Norway/Iceland/Scotland cruise this summer was 6:00pm and 8:30pm. We prefer the main dining as that's just what we are used to back home on the East Coast. If we do excursions (which we are in every port for Alaska this summer) we will just be back onboard before dinner to freshen up and go to main dinner. The thing to keep in mind is you are trading off one for the other since the shows are the opposite times so main dining does 5:45pm for dinner then the 8:30pm show (should you choose to go) so even if we switched to the late dining, we'd still want to be onboard for the early or first show. Since we've seen all the shows previously we might skip some and do something different after dinner and mix it up a bit. As you probably know, you aren't required to stick to a show time or even a MDR if you don't want to. In some ports depending on the arrival/departure time people might skip a night in the MDR's and do something different.

Have fun,
Heather

 

[xlxo]

I think you can also bypass your assigned dining times with specialty dining.