Sci-Fi - Do they seat you with others?

[Loftus]

I'm making my first trip next year and will be there solo. I now have this vision of people running screaming from restaurants if I'm seated with their party

 

[¡WDW!girlrox(:]

If you are uncomfortable sitting with strangers then get a "flying saucer".
It's a table towards the back of the restraunt.(it's right behind the cars)

 

[Planogirl]

I'm going to ask if we can somehow sit in the front. We are just a party of two and we have never gotten to and I'd love to be able to see the movie clips more easily. It never hurts to ask.

 

[roselark]

My first thought when I read the title of the thread was, "no, of course they don't sit you with strangers". I started reading responses and was surprised to see that sitting at a booth in a "car" where another family is also sitting is considered sitting "together". I have never thought of it this way.

Sci-Fi is my absolute favorite restaurant in WDW. I make a point of going every trip. I have never had any problems with the seating arrangements. I have never had any interaction with folks in the other booths other than a quick smile. Most people are focused on the screen to even notice you there. In my opinion, this is one of the best places in WDW to dine solo!

 

[disnewbie108]

Hi! Any thoughts on a party of 7? How the seating will be arranged? Maybe not from personal exp. but possible observations. We will be a party of 5 ad., a 7yr and a 1yr in a high chair? What are the chances we will be put in a car? Or will we be seated at a reg. table because of the high chair? We have been before, so not a big deal. Just have not been as such a large party....

TIA

 

[KJay]

So, if we are a party of 3, how will they seat us? Will one person have a whole seat to themself or will they squeeze them with a stranger? Or, do all three of us sit together?

We were a party of three (two adults and an 8 yr old). The server just walked us over to an empty three-row car, so I wasn't sure what to do. I asked him if we were all supposed to sit together, or split up. He said we could all sit in one row if we wanted, or take the first two rows. Three in a row would have been way too crowded. My 8 yr old thought eating by herself would be the coolest thing possible, so she sat in the front row and we sat behind her. The novelty of being alone in the front seat wore off after about ten minutes! A couple was seated in our back row about halfway through our meal, but as a previous poster said, I wouldn't have even known they were there, had I not happened to look up just as our server walk past with them.

 

[CanadianPaco]

if you really want to eat there but don't want to sit with others, you can ask for the cars with just two seats...don't know how many of the cars are like that, but it is possible to get seated there & not have to sit with anyone else.

I didn't know this! Thanks for sharing it!

 

[trickiwoo]

I went with my boyfriend last September. It was just the two of us. They sat us in the back of a 2 row (4 seat) car with another couple in the seats in front of us. We had plenty of privacy... we couldn't hear their conversation and they couldn't hear ours. It wasn't awkward at all. If we looked straight in front of us, we'd see the back of their heads. But the cars are turned at an angle towards the screen so we would look off to the side to see the screen... so there really was no reason to look straight ahead of us.

It really doesn't feel like you're sitting with other people. Now, there is always the chance you could be seated with a kid in front of you that turns around to talk to you. But that can happen at any restaurant! I know I've been seated in a restaurant where the kid at the table next to us keeps asking us questions... or the kid in the booth behind us turns around to talk to us. Or you could be seated at a table with a really loud obnoxious person/people in front of you or behind you... but I don't think that would be any more annoying than being seated at regular restaurant at a table next to a really loud obnoxious person/people.

 

[Cat0727]

We ate at Sci-Fi for my birthday back in December and ended up with a four-person, two-row car. We had a couple behind us, but it was never really awkward or uncomfortable - a lot had to do with timing, since they weren't seated until about halfway through our meal.

Here's a pic:

Oh gosh, that two row car is SO cute! and it's pink!

 

[DizBelle]

You are "with" the other people in your car about as much as you are "with" the people in the row in front of you at a movie theater.

DH and I have gone many times and have never felt that we had to interact with the other people in the car.

I'm not much of a Biergarten or Teppan Edo group table kind of person but I don't have a problem with Sci-Fi.

 

[MickeyHereWeCome!]

Hi! Any thoughts on a party of 7? How the seating will be arranged? Maybe not from personal exp. but possible observations. We will be a party of 5 ad., a 7yr and a 1yr in a high chair? What are the chances we will be put in a car? Or will we be seated at a reg. table because of the high chair? We have been before, so not a big deal. Just have not been as such a large party....

TIA

We have traveled several times with a LO in a high chair, and we were able to put the high chair on the end of the car. I think you'll be able to fit in one car just fine.

They do have regular tables for larger parties. If you really want to sit in a car, be sure to specify that when you check in.

 

[disnewbie108]

We have traveled several times with a LO in a high chair, and we were able to put the high chair on the end of the car. I think you'll be able to fit in one car just fine.

They do have regular tables for larger parties. If you really want to sit in a car, be sure to specify that when you check in.

Awesome! Thanks for responding to my post! We are looking forward to Sci Fi!

H.

 

[Rachie0507]

I requested a regular table (not a car) when I checked in last trip. I was pregnant at the time and was worried that I would be uncomfortable in the car. It was a regular table off to the side. If you do not want to sit in a car with strangers, this might work for you.

 

[Debbie Jean]

I'm making my first trip next year and will be there solo. I now have this vision of people running screaming from restaurants if I'm seated with their party

Nah, it's great place to solo... only place I feel comfortable hitchhiking on my own!