No doctor is going to tell you eating at 8 pm is bad for you health. That is about the most ridiculous thing you have said on these boards.
You could always try late dinner and see what you think.
Reasons we choose late dinner seating, always:
-Less people in general, and far less kids.
-Less people = less noise.
-Easier to get a private table, since there are less people.
-Early show is far less crowded than the later show. Far less children at the early show, as well, so way less "little voices" at inappropriate times in the show. We had out Palo Dinner at 6:00 on the last cruise, so we ended up seeing the later show. The amount of noise during the show and the fact that it was sooo much harder to find a seat was astonishing.
-We're young, we stay up late hanging out in the room and watching movies. We don't particularly want to eat dinner at 6.
We do early dinner. I'll preface this by the fact that we're young/mid 20s. But we eat dinner as soon as we get home from work at 5:30 every day. We work out a lot and that combined with my blood sugar issues, it's tough To go more than 5 hours or so without eating. We did late dining on our first cruise and found that we were eating an early dinner at 5-6 and then eating again at 8 and leaving so stuffed we would fall asleep and not enjoy the adult activities on board. It was just too late/too heavy for us.
We prefer early as we're out early and then see the show, and by 10pm we are ready for the adult activities on board, and if we need a snack we'll grab one.
It's really gonna come down to your families routine.
I am a lab tech and my husband is a teacher and football coach, if we were to go by our families routine then we would be eating dinner close to the time of the late dining option. So late dining for us may not be that bad of an idea. I am curious to know what your experience has been like with the amount of noise during the early dining time. Are there more children during the earlier dining time?
I've found the dining rooms to be extremely noisy. Regardless if it's early or late dining.I am a lab tech and my husband is a teacher and football coach, if we were to go by our families routine then we would be eating dinner close to the time of the late dining option. So late dining for us may not be that bad of an idea. I am curious to know what your experience has been like with the amount of noise during the early dining time. Are there more children during the earlier dining time?
But it really depends on each family. Our family tends to push back meals on vacation (later breakfast, later lunch, etc). So later dinner works out fine.
We also stay up later so no worries about going to bed on a full stomach.
I've found the dining rooms to be extremely noisy. Regardless if it's early or late dining.