Dining room table size question

[sfven]

We'll be taking our first Disney cruise in September with seven other families. Each family has 4-5 people. We've all been cross-referenced in our reservations to be in the same dining rotation. My question is what size are the tables? Will two or three families be able to fit at each table? And if the kids don't want to eat in the dining room on any given night, can the adults move from their tables to take up the "empty seats" the kids would've sat in?

 

[adlgel]

We've had up to 12 people at one long table but I think that's about the maximum that they can handle. On our last cruise we were seated next to multiple families travelling together - they appeared to have one table of 8-10for the adults and another table of 8 for the kids and both tables had the same set of servers. Obviously in their case, their kids were old enough that they could be seated without a parent.

I don't know if they will let adults move from one table to an empty kids spot at another table but I don't see why not. I guess the only dilemma is if the tables did not share the same set of servers - your tip would still be directed to the table you were assigned to, not the table that you may have sat at frequently because the kids weren't there.

 

[alikat99]

We had a LARGE group sailing together on one of the DVC member groups, and we had a connection to the dining seating person. We arranged for our entire group (about 80 people) to be in the same section of the restaurants. I know that we were requested to match everyone into tables of 4, 6 & 8, and each section has those tables. Now, I know that they can do some moving around of tables to accomodate larger groups, but I think that they limit it to 12, because they can put the 8 & 4 together, but the 6-top is a round table usually.

 

[slk]

We had 14 in our group (8 adults and 6 kids) in 4 rooms which were all
linked for dining. Our seating at dinner was all the adults and 2 youngest
kids were at a table for 10 and the 4 oldest kids were at a table by
themselves right by us. We all had the same servers though. The only
problem was sometimes the kids table food came out way before ours
and they were all sitting there looking around bored and wanted to leave.
Teens.... you know how they are!

 

[sfven]

Thanks for all the answers. We'll have about 32 people in our group, with the kids ages generally between 3-8 yrs old. I don't think they will put the kids by themselves since they are too young. I wasn't sure if they were going to sit each family by themselves on a 4 top or two families on 8 top tables. It really doesn't matter, as long as they seat all of us near each other on the same side of each restauarant.