What is Rotational Dining on Disney Cruise Line?

What is Rotational Dining on Disney Cruise Line?

 

Rotational Dining is Disney Cruise Lines way of making dinner special! You do not eat in the same restaurant every night. Instead, you rotate between the 3 Main Dining Restaurants. Sounds confusing but really it is NOT!

 

First off there are two dining times. Main Dining, 1^st seating is around 5:30 pm or so. Second Seating is around 8 pm. When you book you can request the dining time of your preference.

 

Let’s say you are on the Disney Magic, the first ship in the Disney Fleet. Disney Magic has 3 main restaurants, Lumiere’s, Rapunzel’s Royal Table and Animators Palate. How do you know where you will eat and when? Check your handy dandy Navigator App! On the app it will tell you what restaurant you are in that night and what table number you will be seated at. You can see your entire itineraries dining schedule on the app as soon as you board.

 

You are on a 3-night Disney Magic cruise, you may have Lumiere’s on the first night and sit at table number 59. The second night you may be at Animators Palate, and you will sit at table number 59. The third night you will be at Rapunzel’s Royal Table and be at, you guessed, table number 59. If you are on a longer cruise, you will go back to one or more of the restaurants. For a 4-night cruise you will return to one restaurant once, 5-night you will revisit two restaurants. On a 7-night cruise you will go to two restaurants twice and the third restaurant you will go to 3 times. Again, your Navigator App will tell you want restaurant to go to each day. It will also have the menu for the restaurant. You can look at it during the day so you know what you may want to order.

 

Now for the Disney Magic of all of this! Your server serving team of three will follow you from restaurant to restaurant! You will have the same dining staff the entire cruise! They will get to know any special dietary needs and food allergies along with your food preferences. Your servers often become part of your dining entertainment. They will join you dancing around the restaurant at times and each night have a different uniform fitting the restaurant or theme of dinner that night.

 

Often during the quiet times during the meal your servers may place a brain teaser puzzle on the table. They may place crayons or forks in a pattern and ask if you can move one to change the shape. They may do magic tricks or make funny hats out of napkins. This is great for keeping restless children calm while they wait for their next course or for characters to arrive in the restaurant.