When Royal Caribbean launched Quantum of the Seas, they also introduced a revolutionary new dining concept called "Dynamic Dining". This dining concept would do away with the traditional early and late seating times and allow guests to dine anywhere they would like at any time they choose. Rather than having a large main dining room, the ship was outfitted with five smaller sized dining rooms as well as a handful of other smaller specialty dining venues, each with a different style and type of cuisine. Along with Dynamic Dining, the formal night concept was done away with, allowing passengers who prefer to dress formally for dinner, to opt for the "formal-only" restaurant called "The Grande".
Dynamic Dining was quite a change, even for those who previously used the line's "My Time" dining which allow you to choose your time, but still dine in the main dining room. Some people embraced the concept as it allowed for more choice, while others were not so thrilled with having to micro-manage their dining experience. To that end, Royal Caribbean did a minor overhaul of the program and introduced Dynamic Dining Classic which added back in the early and late seating times and then assigned the guests to a different restaurant each night. Dynamic Dining Choice still operates as the original concept.
Once the Quantum of the Seas was launched, it was announced that all future ships would feature Dynamic Dining and that they were starting to retrofit the existing ships by breaking up the main dining room into smaller venues and then ultimately switch each ship over to Dynamic Dining. Mega ship, Oasis of the Seas' main dining has already been converted and plans were in the works to convert Allure of the Seas and the new Harmony of the Seas was slated to have the Dynamic Dining concept.
This week Royal Caribbean announced that they are stopping any plans to covert to Dynamic Dining on the Oasis if the Seas, nor are they going ahead with the retrofit of the Allure of the Seas, nor will it be an option on the new ship Harmony of the Seas. No explanation has been given, but one would assume is that the concept is failing and the expense of this conversion does not bode well for the future. I hope to get more information soon. Only the Quantum of the Seas and the Anthem of the Seas currently feature Dynamic Dining.
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