Any Time Dining question

[BK512]

We have a group on an Alaska cruise next summer...20 people.  We all picked the your choice dining to offer more flexibility. 
Can we make a reservation if we have a table of, say, 8 people that want to dine together?  Is there a table size restriction for such a thing?

Thanks in advance

[Joken35]

4 minutes ago, BK512 said:

We have a group on an Alaska cruise next summer...20 people.  We all picked the your choice dining to offer more flexibility. 
Can we make a reservation if we have a table of, say, 8 people that want to dine together?  Is there a table size restriction for such a thing?

Thanks in advance

Speak with the Maitre d when you go to the dining room and he/she will make the arrangements.

[ArtsyCraftsy]

You can make a main dining room reservation, yes.  I think the largest table I saw on the Rotterdam seated 10, so 8 would be no problem.  I'd do it 24 hrs in advance if possible, but probably the same day would work, too.

 

Lana in Bellingham, WA

[Krazy Kruizers]

You can make reservations for Open Seating only during certain times and for 3 days at a time.  The times are usually 5:15 - 6:15 and 7:30 - 9. 

 

There are several tables that can handle 8 people.

[Nashna]

Can you make open seating dining arrangements prior to boarding?

 

[RuthC]

3 hours ago, Nashna said:

Can you make open seating dining arrangements prior to boarding?

 

No. You can make them once on board, for early and later times, for up to three days in advance.

[Nashna]

Thank you for the information.  Where do you go to make the reservations?   I understand that reservations can only be made three days in advance.  

[Krazy Kruizers]

You can go to the lower dining room and make them there or there is a podium in the Lido near where the Canaletto restaurant is.

[sevenseasnomad]

3 hours ago, Krazy Kruizers said:

You can go to the lower dining room and make them there or there is a podium in the Lido near where the Canaletto restaurant is.

You may also dial (I think it's 88) for dining reservations.  Do it first thing in the morning.

[GRACECRUISE]

We went to the main dining room lunch embarkation day and they had someone there doing dinner reservations.  They let us book the same table same time for the entire trip.

[mcrcruiser]

This is good info .We did not know that the limit is 3 days

[Nashna]

13 hours ago, GRACECRUISE said:

We went to the main dining room lunch embarkation day and they had someone there doing dinner reservations.  They let us book the same table same time for the entire trip.

That sounds logical.  We know when we like to eat each evening and we enjoy having the same wait staff.   We typically eat in the MDR on embarkation day as the Lido is usually a mad house.  On Princess last year, we were in Club Class and had amazing wait staff on the first day at a window two top table.  We never had a wait and always had the same two wonderful servers .  

[boards]

We used open seating, at first we made reservations, but then later we just went about the same time and got seating very quickly.  We were on the Koningsdam just recently.  It worked out just fine, sometimes we had company and other times it was just the two of us.  It was our choice every time.  Be prepared for a great meal in the dining room.  The main portions were big.  We had to slow down going to the dining room and ate in the Lido, so we would have clothes to wear home that fit.