GEO-82 Lounge 8:50 PM Res - Is There Early Entry & Seats?

[mbroadhead]

How early do they let you in the lounge? 15- 20 minutes early or right at the 8:50 mark?
Are there seats/tables available or do you wait or sit at the bar?
If anyone has any ideas on these questions, I'd love to hear them.

Also, what's the better experience - watching from the Rose & Crown Fireworks Dining Package seats or up in the GEO-82 lounge without the dining package?
Thanks

 

[mbroadhead]

What's the better experience - watching from the Rose & Crown Dining Package seats or up in the GEO-82 lounge?

 

[VAtink]

For entry time, think it depends on the night, the night we went we were seated right around our reservation time, but the place was mostly empty when we arrived. As for the views, we prefer the Rose and Crown fireworks package views, but we were also seated at the bar for the fireworks at Geo-82 so could only see the lower fireworks.

Not sure how they determined the seating at Geo-82 that time of night, most of the place was empty except for those with the fireworks package, and then the rest of us were either at the bar or off to the sides of the room, all the tables in the center that weren't part of the fireworks package, and looked like they would have a great view, were empty the entire time we were there. But yeah, definitely prefer the view from Rose and Crown.

 

[mbroadhead]

For entry time, think it depends on the night, the night we went we were seated right around our reservation time, but the place was mostly empty when we arrived. As for the views, we prefer the Rose and Crown fireworks package views, but we were also seated at the bar for the fireworks at Geo-82 so could only see the lower fireworks.

Not sure how they determined the seating at Geo-82 that time of night, most of the place was empty except for those with the fireworks package, and then the rest of us were either at the bar or off to the sides of the room, all the tables in the center that weren't part of the fireworks package, and looked like they would have a great view, were empty the entire time we were there. But yeah, definitely prefer the view from Rose and Crown.

Thanks, I appreciate the help!

 

[DebbieB]

We did it in July. Our reservation was about 7:45. It took a few minutes to seat us. At first they tried to put us at the bar. The one seat was facing a pillar. We asked if there were any tables, they had a two seat on the far left at the window so we got that. There were only 2 tables setup for the package at the middle window. We just had drinks, it was around 8:30, the waiter asked if we wanted another, we said yes. So we were able to stay for the fireworks. There were empty tables at fireworks time, plus the people at the bar turned around to watch.