Dining with three families ??????

[DadofTigger]

We so enjoied our 2001 cruise on the Magic that as soon as we returned home we started to lobby other families to join us in 2003. Now the time has come, almost anyway. There will be three families traveling, six adults and seven children (ages 4-11). We had two others cancel at the last minute. With 13 people does anyone know what our options are for dining together. Since this will be the first time in two years we have all been together we really want to spend time together, not trying to avoid meeting new friends at dinner just want to see each other. Can DCL seat us together? I made all the ressies and linked them, will DCL automatically seat us together? Do we need to do anything else other then link them?

We just do not want to show up and find out we are on different dining rotations. Any help would be great.

 

[goin2dzny]

I have read that they will do their best to get you together... but they must know that you are travelling together. For example... we all booked using the same TA and they noted all four rooms as being a group travelling together... wishing to dine together. Even if we aren't at the same table... being next to each other would be fine.

 

[allears]

Make sure to call your ta or whomever you booked with. Give them each parties res. # and they'll link you together so that you'll be in the same dining rotation. I don't know if they have tables big enough for all of you, but I think they might. However, as long as your linked they'll get you as close as possible. We've linked our res with the family we sat with on our last cruise and they did the same, so we can dine together. That's how I know about this. Sounds like a blast. We're hoping to do the same with our family next year.

 

[calhous2]

We cruised in November with two other families as well: 6 adults and 5 kids. We were able to all have a table together. We used the same TA and had our reservations linked- they do go out of their way to seat you all together.

It is SUCH a great time to travel with other families- we had the best time and all booked on board to do it again together next year.

Enjoy!!

 

[Mjasp]

We were a party of 13 last May on the Magic. We all linked our ressies and we were seated together at a long oval table. There were 14 chairs at the table, because originally there were 14 of us and one wasn't able to make it. So if there are 14 it still wouldn't be a problem.

Joanna

 

[Nasi]

When we cruised with 10 we were at one big table. Our last cruise in June we had 13 total (4 families). I made sure our reservations were linked. We were seated at 2 tables next to each other. We put the kids (5) at one and the adults(8) at the other. It worked out fine. Nasi

 

[DawnL]

We had 3 families, 6 adults and 5 kids on the 7/6/02 Western cruise. Our TA linked all of our reservations together and we were placed at 2 tables right next to each other. It worked out great for us, the kids ate at one table and the adults at the other.

 

[mkauffman]

We are traveling with 28 total, 10 staterooms booked! We've been assured that our ressies are linked. I even emailed DCL to make sure (TA makes me nervous) and they said they are linked and closer to sail time our TA will ask us for specific seating details (for instance, my sister-in-law wants to make sure she sits with her dad) since they obviously don't have one table big enough for all 28 of us! I just wanted to make sure that our tables were close and not scattered all over the dining room and that we all have the same dining rotation. DCL calmed my nerves!