Traditional Seating Waitlist Help

[lawgirl]

Hello. We're booked on Caribbean Princess in November and already there is a wait for Second Seating Traditional. I think we are #150 on the wait list. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting Traditional Seating, even once onboard? Do we have any chance of getting it before the cruise since we are so far down on the list? Thanks!!! http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[srphnx]

No, at 150 your chances are dim. You can do the next best thing, go to the PC maitre'd and tell him you would like the same table time and waiters for the week, then show up at that time. It will be a personaly chosen traditional.

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[zurmolly]

How do you know this? We are not sailing till Feb but are confirmed early traditional..That is what the TA tells me. http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[Coral]

#150 is not that bad actually. I have a cruise booked for Dec that I booked last month. I have moved from #120 to #100 on the waitlist.

The time that you will really know is during final payment. Either people make final payment or they cancel. A lot of people do cancel their trip - so I wouldn't give up hope.

If you really want traditional and have not cleared - go and see the matride on the first day. He may set you up in PC dining room at a specific time, with a specific waiter and the same people every night. He did this once for us when we were #460 and never progressed (Christmas cruise that was booked 6 weeks before Christmas). It felt just like traditional dining.