We cruise with Royal Caribbean and utilize "my time" dining in the main dining room for dinner. Good deal: same time each evening, same table (if you want), pretty much the same dining companions and waitstaff each time. The more astute waitstaff get to know you and your preferences after a couple of times: My wife enjoys hot tea with lemon after dinner: it took only two times for Igor (our waiter from Serbia) to catch on to that and after that it appeared automatically at the end of the meal. Hot decaf for me: same deal.
Buffet is nice if you have a shore excursion planned and can't make "my time" (though it is no problem, maybe a short wait, if you show up at another time) in the main dining room. And the buffet is always stop #1 on embarkation day: board early (about 11:00 AM) and head for the Windjammer. But yes...buffet dining can get hectic; not all people have the same idea of proper etiquette in the buffet.
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