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Your Time Dining, which Adam and I typically don’t do. I like having the
same table with a waiter who knows my name. The others all like the
flexibility of Your Time Dining.
But it was a problem with the
kids. For instance, one of the
other babies needed a booster.
But only certain tables had the
right configuration. Some nights
we’d be waiting for 20 to 30
minutes. Once a table became
available we would have to wait
for the highchairs to be set up
and then explain things to the
wait staff. It was always a big production versus just sitting down and
having someone come up to you and say: “Oh, hi Miss Shoshana; hi Mr.
Adam; here are your drinks.” I missed that part.
So can you give us some more examples of the main challenges you
faced having the babies with you?
One was just the way the ship was laid out. We needed strollers to get
around and some of the decks didn’t go all the way through. This was
especially frustrating when we wanted to go to breakfast in the dining
room. It was the one that you can only get to by stairs or elevator. We
were forced to take the elevator versus being able to go over to a less
crowded deck and walking across it.
Another challenge was the lack of changing tables. They’re only
available in the handicapped bathrooms which are sometimes
occupied. To solve that problem I would just take out a changing
pad, find a spot of carpet, and then just change her behind a plant or
something like that.