Kayceecan, We had a table beside us that was a brother, his two sisters and his son. The brother and one sister were doing Atkins and the son (a teen) and one sister were not (she was not 100 lbs soaking wet!) All week, they got normal bread, normal deserts and sometimes ate food from our menu, sometimes from the normal menu. I will have to say, that some of the group were a little jelous of the food they were eating, so some of the men (one at our table in particular) were eating from our menu during the sit down meals, but hitting the pizza buffet, room service, ect when not with the group! Some of our food was so spectacular, the regular food could not have been any better!! Especially the calamari! The gentleman I am speeking about in the prior sentence also had two helpings of calamari the night I did!!!!!
Some of the group would use the buffet for breakfast and lunch, and come to the dinning room for dinner only, then thier husbands would only be missing the high carb items for the one meal. But, I enjoy the time shared with other people, we only missed a couple meals in the dinning room!!
But, in reality, there are a lot more people on the ship eating from normal menus than people eating from Atkins Group menus!!!
We were not in a seperate dinning room, just had a section of tables that were part of our "group". This is how all cruise lines handle any group that books with them, we just had special menus and bread on our table!!!
I do know for a fact that you could not be in another part of the dinning room and order something from our menu. '
I also did check other cruise web sites to make sure the prices for the cruies were on target with other travel agencies, and Bob Lincoln's prices were the same or lower than every other site I checked. I worried they would need to charge more for the use of the Atkins products (our bread cost them a lot more to make than normal bread!!!) but I guess they absorb that extra expense.
Hope that helped some!!!