What time is dinner?
Dinner is served at 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. You should inform your Travel Agent of your seating time preference when you book your vacation. No requests are guaranteed. Generally, adults without children will dine with other adults while families dine with other families. Children’s menus are available in the restaurants. In addition, a dinner buffet will be offered for children who participate in the supervised programs during the dinner hour. Times subject to change.
You may order set or a la carte meals in a restaurant anytime. A restaurant will remain open for your very late supper and very early breakfast. When a buffet is served, food service will remain while the food lasts. Buffet hours will be announced on board. If you wish to join a picnic on the island, you must place a reservation at the front desk at least 8 hours ahead. 8.
TODAY WE DON’T always agree on the names and times of our meals. Some of us have dinner at eight, while others have supper at five. It wasn’t always that way. The names of meals and their general times were once quite standard. Everyone in medieval England knew that you ate breakfast first thing in the morning, dinner in the middle of the day, and supper not long before you went to bed, around sundown. The modern confusion arose from changing social customs and classes, political and economic developments, and even from technological innovations. Despite our stereotypes of big English breakfasts of sausages, kippers (sardines), toast, tomatoes, etc., big breakfasts weren’t really common until the Victorian age. Breakfast before the 1800s was usually just toast or some variation of gruel or porridge, except when a lavish spread was offered to impress guests. The main meal of the day was dinner. In the Middle Ages, great nobles ate the most formal dinner, around noon or one p.m. Their di
, History Magazine ABOUT ANCIENT GREEK MEAL TIMES “Meal times are variable, but a midday meal was usually called ariston lunch… and an evening meal deipnon, dinner. The latter was perhaps typically the biggest meal of the day, and for some the only meal.” —Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece, Andrew Dalby [Routledge:London] 1996 (p. 12) ABOUT BRITISH MEALTIMES (overview) “In the beginning of the sixteenth century in England, dinner, the main meal of the day, used to begin at 11:00AM. Meals tended over time to be eaten later and later in the day: by the eighteenth century, dinner was eaten at about 3:00PM…By the early nineteenth century, lunch, what Palmer in Moveable Feasts calls “the furtive snack,” had become a sit-down meal at the dning table in the middle of the day. Upper-class people were eating breakfast earlier, and dinner later, than they had formerly done…in 1808…dinner was now a late meal and supper a snack taken at the very end of the day befo
