7 nights is not long enough to adjust to.
I so agree with you.
What's odd is that when DH is on a work trip going east, he'll adjust inside of a day. On a leisure trip there is NO WAY he is doing what he needs to do to adjust in a day. When he doesn't have a boss telling him what to do, he'll sleep in and not adjust.
DS and I have tried to adjust fast, and it just leads to feeling horrible by day 3 or 4 of the trip; we feel horrible day 3 or 4 anyway, so it's "be miserable waking up so early then feel bad day 3 or 4" or "wake up when we want to and feel bad day 3 or 4"....we choose the one with LESS feeling bad.
This is a terrible myth spread by a few, dinner time should be set by the time you eat at home not home time zone.
Why is it a myth if it's the experience of people. Do you think people just post for fun, post lies? To what point and purpose would that be done?
"eat at home" vs "home time zone"...do you mean "the time zone you're in" by "home" time zone?
On the ship you and your kids get up with the sun, have breakfast local time go off to port local time eat lunch local time in port or local time on ship or local time in castaway
I do NOT get up with the sun, and neither does my son, on the ship. I don't have breakfast local time; we often don't get breakfast at all on a ship unless we're at the very tail end of breakfast service. Of course we get off the ship local time, but that doesn't mean it's early! I don't eat lunch at lunchtime local time; in San Juan and St Maarten we ended up having lunch around 3pm, which is...drum roll please....around noon western time. And same on Castaway, we eat either at the very beginning of lunch service because we didn't have breakfast or towards the end because we did have breakfast and aren't yet hungry.
This myth comes every so often spread by one or two trying to be clever.
People aren't trying to be clever by posting their experiences. Not sure what's so clever about "you might not be adjusted to the timezone, and if you normally eat at 8pm your time, eating at 5pm your time might not feel great".
And we haven't found the perfect thing yet, anyway. It's all very dependent on the trip before the cruise portion, and how we've felt, etc. Although our stomachs are more ready for food at late seating, it splits up our evening too much. Except for DH and DS seeing Villains, or maybe a magic show or comedian, we don't go to the shows, so we do...nothing, then go to dinner, then there's about an hour or so before exhaustion hits and we go to bed. If we do early dining, we come back onboard, get ready, have dinner, then the whole evening feels far more open for us. DS gets some good kid's club time in, we can do whatever we're doing, and it feels like we can all stay up later than we would with food in the bellies.
I guess I'm in the minority. We are from AZ and have dinner around 6 every night at home. Therefore, we like to eat at the early seating. As mentioned, we don't like to go to bed right after eating. We enjoy going to the show and other activities after dinner to allow our stomachs to settle before bed. We often have early morning excursions so we can't sleep in.
Sounds like your family is really good at adjusting to the timezone.
Reading some of the posters on here talk about other Cruise lines anytime dining makes me wonder how that is?
When we had MyTimeDining on Royal, on embarkation day we went to the desk and set up a good time for that night. Then we set up all the other nights after thinking about what would work best. We've never done a true "anytime" dining because I saw the line (not horribly long, but I didn't want any line) on the first night and we were glad we had set up a time. It ended up being somewhere in between early and late seating for that cruise. On the first Royal cruise we took as a family we had MyFamilyTime dining which was at 5:30 and that was just really hard for us. BUT my son and I had spent the last 2.5 weeks on land being very sick (too sick to form the thought "let's buy face masks and go HOME, rest up, get well, and fly back for the cruise) and I had almost no sense of taste and smell (I could taste and smell coffee and dark chocolate and that was it for a month or so) so dining was hard anyway.
