Seat Assignments in the Dining Rooms

[bettemom]

Having seen posts over the past couple month about seat assignments for dinner we decided to post our experience here for others to see.

Many posts showed cruisers upset on where they were seated in the dining room and what " obstruction" was in their way. We just returned last from our second 7 night cruise and here is our take on dining seat assignments.

We had 2 tables put together and a total of 13 people. Ages ranged from 11 months to over 70 years old. We were in the left corner of all the restaurants and a little more than 1/2 way back. We had a wall the whole distance behind our table and on the opposite side of the table and equal with the wall was the ....DREDED SERVING STATION. So what !!! did this ruin our dinners, of course not, we did have to do some musical chairs once in a while if one of the babies or children needed to be moved, but you would do that most likely in a restaurant in your home state.

We were never left out of any of the dining activities, characters, flag parades, light shows and so on.

Our feelings are that in day to day life some one gets the heel of the bread, someone has to use the middle seat on an airplane and some cruise group must be seated next to a serving station. We think that if you have a great group together for dinner then where you are seated is so very minor. Our group had such a great time at dinner that we have all re-booked for next year and plan on linking dinner reservations again to share a BIG table.
Oh, by the way we are 5 different families with no ties to each other and met fact to face for the first time on the ship.

Enjoy your cruise dining experience, do not waste time on worrying on where you will be seated, just go have a great time and you will not miss out on anything.

Bettemom & Kim

 

[DisneyForLife]

You have the right idea.
I completely agree.

I am glad to hear you had great tablemates, and have made friends for life.
Now you have another cruise to look forward to.

 

[ruvidu]

May we get to share a table some time in the future.

 

[Masonpips]

Nice post!

We were Table 1 last year which was immediately to your right as you entered most of the dining rooms. We had linked up with another DIS boarder, but they had to unlink due to family coming with them. They ended up seating us right next to each other so we still got to chat.

It was wonderfully easy getting in/out of the dining rooms (dh would run and take the kids to the clubs after they ate) and we saw all of the shows as well.

I think there was a serving station by us in AP, but honestly I can't remember; that's how little it affected our dining experience!

 

[bettemom]

Originally posted by ruvidu
May we get to share a table some time in the future.

We are sailing on the 10/2/04 cruise, come and join us !!

Bettemom & Kim

 

[LisaGoeke]

I agree too. We booked our cruise late and could only get late seating. As soon as we boarded I went to request early seating, but we were told that due to such a large party (8 people) it was very unlikely. Well a few hours later I got the call that we were switched to early seating!

We were stuck in the back, by a serving station, and also by the in/out doors in one of the other restaurants. I don't feel we missed anything and was just thrilled that they could accommodate us and get us a table at the first seating.

 

[ruvidu]

We are sailing on the 10/2/04 cruise, come and join us !!

We are considering another DCL cruise about that time next year so it is a good possiblity.

We are going to have to see how the funds hold up after the May trip to Alaska with Princess.

Our favorite times on each cruise have been the dinners with new friends. We have dinned with lady ranchers from Montana, a banana boat enigineer, a federal prison guard and a dart salesman from Texas to name a few.

I hope to write a book one day on the stories we have heard.

Russ and Miss Vivian

 

[Cruisin]

Ever eaten with any Canadian "Rednecks". You might find out that we are actually quite civilized.
Might make a good story for your book!

 

[ruvidu]

Everyone we have had the pleasure of dinning with so far have been well mannered and social.

 

[alikat99]

Here, here, Bette!!! We did have a GREAT table, didn't we!!!

Please, please everyone, stop worrying about where your tables are at dinner. No one at our table seemed to think that being seated near the "dreaded serving station" was anything to minimize our experience. We had such a great time and our servers were awesome!!! And if anything, we were always able to get to a server pretty quickly.

And, to other "shy" diners, hook up with another DIS family and link your ressies together. It was so much fun to know that there was no mystery on who we were sitting with, because we all had already "met" before on the DIS.

Can't wait until 10/02/04!!!!!

 

[scootersmom]

I totally agree, Bette, Kim and Amy! We did have a great time at dinner! We didn't feel like we missed out on anything by being in the far back corner near the serving station either.

Another thing we tried to do each night was rotate a little bit around the table so we chatted with different people close by every night, but were still able to talk to people at the other end without too much difficulty.

Can't wait to see everyone again next year. I was thinking the other day how grown up the babies will be next October, and we'll have a new one to spoil too!

Bette, I'll send you our ressie # to link us up soon.

Hugs to all!
Colleen

 

[Windermere]

Russ,

I still hae the Lei from last year. Maybe you can make it for Cruisetoberfest III. I think you would fit right in. Try to book for 10/2. I'm thinking we may have to re-schedule for that time anyway.


Nancy

 

[trishy]

Glad you had a great time and things worked out well.

You may want to resize that HUMONGOUS signature though -
it really s t r e t c h e s the page

 

[trishy]

Here it is at 150 x 200 pixels:

(your original will come out a lot better than this)