Do We Still Enjoy Disney Cruise Line Rotational Dining?

Rotational dining is part of what makes a Disney Cruise Line vacation so unique. It gives you a chance to experience all the restaurants on a ship but you keep the same service team with you the entire time so you can form a bond and have the best service possible. Do we still enjoy the rigidness of rotational dining after many cruises or would we prefer a more flexible approach?
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[@bryan_witha_whyy]

I feel like most of these gripes are for people who go a bunch. I mean, if you’re getting tired of things take a break! Everything has a limit. You can’t expect them to change things up that much.

[@meisteckhart]

“I don’t form bonds with people in that way.” Lol

[@caitlynskiff2001]

I think it is kind of telling that when the Wish first sailed the main food conversation was about the pool deck food and the variety that was offered there. The rotational dining conversation for that ship was about how the shows were, not necessarily about the food. I have never gone on a Disney cruise, but I have always been drawn to Animators Pallet. I like the show aspect of it going from black and white to a colored environment. That's the magic of Disney that needs to be brought into more of the dining. Not here's this character and this character. I think that a Mexican based menu is a great idea! I also love the idea someone else had about a Mulan inspired Asian meal.

[@lesterm8996]

I love everything about rotation dining. Do not change it

[@GetNLine]

Rotational dining is good, but sometimes I don't want to sit for a 2-hour dinner. They need to bring back the cabana's buffet

[@Grahamt978]

If you share that info with your waiter it makes a big difference!

[@dee_mcgee11]

Always been a fan of rotational dining. Editd to add: Unlike Craig, I love Animators Pallette and would be more than happy for it to be my repeat restaurant on a 4 night Disney Dream cruise!

[@richd6362]

I enjoy rotational dining. I would like it if they did an Asian-themed restaurant: chinese, thai, maybe some indian dishes.

[@ajmayowskijr]

Love rotational dining. I also love a long relaxing dinner.

[@marcussaintly-ox8ue]

The "my time dining" at Royal and other cruise lines is a LIE. If you do the "my time," you have to wait for a LONG time to get a table. I only went on one Royal cruise and everyone was complaining about how awful the waits were the entire time!

[@debolson1571]

Ohana noodles, chicken wings, and dumplings would be a fun addition.

[@CocoFirenze]

It's Jackie!!!!!!!

[@jeffking6011]

I wasn't surprised Craig is not a fan. I never get tired of rotational dinning, that's why we love DCL, vs other cruise lines.

[@meisteckhart]

Star Wars restaurant, do the menu from the star cruiser with some updates. The darn thing was already themed like a cruise and that food was unique and good.

[@MissLauraSquared]

8:25 I sailed on Norwegian Cruise Line last year and LOVED their freestyle dining. It gives you the flexibility to go to the restaurant/s you love and skip the ones you don’t like. If Disney adopted this concept, Craig could skip AP, for example, and go to one of the other two restaurants each night if he chose.

[@kellykristine1238]

Would love menu changes! We’ve made rotational dining work because we always so the later seating but it would be nice to eat dinner on our time

[@candaceigh]

You might have made a video like this in the past, but would you consider making a video explaining each Disney cruise and the differences between them? My fiance and I want to go on a Disney cruise for our honeymoon but I need to do research for the differences. Would love to hear it from you guys though!

[@bunknkc]

Agree with Craig on Animator’s Palate about the menu. My kids absolutely love it though. Great night for Palo.

[@lestatsluver666]

We went to Palo in pirate night on the Wonder with no issues. Finding this unrelatable 😅. I have done one cruise, out of Australia. I am far from disappointed with the food

[@joykinser3444]

I agree! I wish they would just tell us the rotation.

[@joanne_luvsdisney534]

I love rotational dining but there are some nights that I would like a quick (not poolside food) dinner. Especially with late dining, we don’t get out of the dining room until 10ish

[@juanitadobson9127]

We enjoy the rotational dining but we sail longer itineraries and would like some other options like Cabanas (buffet or sit down like they have offered on transatlantic or panama canal cruises). Or keep more of the quick service options open later in the evening. Particularly with families sometimes you're just wanting a faster less planned option and room service is good but challenging in a small cabin with multiple people. We love the themed dinners and dining rooms and rarely skip them but wish they would have more options.

[@tikitribe5715]

Never been on a Disney cruise, but HAIL NO, I don’t want anyone telling me where I must eat. No no no no. I didn’t know this about Disney cruises. That’s a deal breaker for me.

[@sharon2USA]

I like it & 1923 is my favorite as well!

[@RaeandAuntieJ]

I assumed they gatekeep information because it cuts down on the time/opportunity for complaints or requests for changes. If they didn't want to release people's scheduled rotation ahead of time, I do wish they would at least allow a specific rotation to be part of the dining request options.

[@MrBuzzcut26]

The Adventurers Club

[@FrancesAlicia]

Not the full titanic experience I hope 😂😅

[@chantelcain3297]

I love the pirate menu, I never get seafood because where I live doesn’t really have it unless you wanna pay $$$

[@dismom3197]

First I want to say that no two Disney ships should have all three of the same restaurants. Disney has so much fantastic IP and so many awesome imagineers that it should just not happen! I love Craig's idea for Italian with a Lady and Tramp theme! Disney could easily do that in the Enchanted Garden and it would only take a partial makeover in the restaurant and a rehaul of the menu. I know this was about rotational dining, but when Craig said Noodles I was thinking that would fit perfectly as a rehaul of one station on the older ships' quick serve locations. Change one station to have a noodle bowl area where you can have an Italian sauce and an Asian sauce each day and switch them out along with having a couple styles of noodles each day. (One day its marinara and terriaki. The next it's alfredo and sweet and sour....) I know they need to keep chicken fingers and your basic burgers/hot dogs/pizza. But why not change out one station on each older ship with a newer choice like thy have on the Wish like the mexican or barbeque areas? This adds a nice value when you want to skip your rotational dining.

[@chantelcain3297]

I think the pool deck on the dream and fantasy could use an update- I’d love a taco bar up there. Also I personally think it’s really screwed up that the dream and fantasy don’t have not one dinner show when all the other ships do- I’d like to see an Asian inspired restaurant with a Mulan show (Disney does not do enough with my girl, Mulan) or maybe a Polynesian style restaurant like ohana but make it a character dining experience with Lilo and Moana- as Craig, Hannah, and Ryno found previously the character dining at ohana os suffering but I bet it would be a hit on cruise line.

[@StephanieBaker-g2h]

I think the Lady and the Tramp Italian restaurant is a great idea, Mulan Asian restaurant or at least a fill up station, three caballeros for Mexican, Pinocchio German food,

[@lizaltman3925]

How about a Lilo & Stitch Hawaiian restaurant with fun, kid friendly Hawaiian menus?

[@Amy-yh8kf]

I love the rotational dining! I honestly loved Animator’s Palate on the Dream (in 2021) & Worlds of Marvel on the Wish(in 2023)! I wasn’t a fan of Enchanted Garden & didn’t even go to Royal Palace(went to the buffet instead)….disliked Arendelle’s food & 1923 was just ok.

[@joanne_luvsdisney534]

I thought there is no buffet for dinner anymore on DCL?

[@gjesvaer]

I only cruised NCL to Alaska. I loved thelr freestyle dining. Next to the ports and iternary that was reason to choose NCL. As much as I love disney I will not cruise with them because of what the rotation is

[@janetwinslow4420]

I love southern cuisine shrimp & grits friend Green tomatoes different kinds of okra and collard greens hush puppies friend chicken chicken fried steak etc

[@christinadupont-demaison3184]

Mulan dinner show

[@dismom3197]

I was thinking the same - Asian inspired menu with a show! I'm there!

[@lizciampa]

Can we request a specific server? If so, how?

[@GetNLine]

Call DCL to request. You need their name and county of origin

[@250hincks7]

Love rotational dining, but please I beg you DCL change the menus! 🥺 the Classic and Dream class ships are getting boring when it cones to dining! The Treasure should have three themed restaurants different than Wish based on theming. The restaurants don't match the ship theming!

[@katcalico9142]

As a Disney and cruise obsessed girlie, it is the dinner situation that has kept me from trying a Disney cruise. I hate set time dining and dinner shows. I wish there was a more casual, adult oriented, lightly themed specialty dining option - l would pay $50 a night to avoid having to sit through a dinner show of any kind. I have lasting trauma from medieval times, 50’s prime time, and whispering canyon - I don’t even like Hoop-Dee-Doo. I am not the target market though, I am not complaining, but I will stick to Celebrity, RCL, Princess and the like. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@tikitribe5715]

100% agree!

[@joeschmoe5231]

Craig is one of the most negative people on the face of the Earth

[@adamp2384]

I much prefer choosing my own dining place and time, I don’t want to be locked down to a specific time to eat and having to rotate to whatever they want me to go, it’s a cruise not a prison shouldn’t be so regimented

[@patchez89]

I totally agree with you all... change up the menus once in awhile! I'm 11 cruises in and do not look forward to dinner anymore!

[@jacobdecarli]

Rotational dining was absolutely horrible... from the service to the food quality. It has prevented us from booking another Disney cruise. This is unfortunate because overall DCL was amazing!

[@lanemp8499]

No

[@jillthomas1842]

32 cruises and I am so bored with the menus, they have never changed. I also hate Marvel.The only good thing is I don’t gain weight because there is not much I want to eat.