Thank you for the advice, Mary229! We did ask our cruise consultant about it. She said we could be put on a waitlist. We decided to stay with open seating due to our planned excursions. We are on the west coast so late dining would be very late for us but early may interfere with excursions. I’ve only been on two cruises but I enjoyed getting to know my servers on both. I’m Facebook friends with a server I met in 2006! He would call me from port and I sent him gifts when he married. I also liked being able to go straight to “my” table. So I am torn about having open seating. My husband is very social, I call him a “puppy” because when he sees new people he hasn’t met he will engage them in conversation. I am much more reserved and shy but open up with time. Maybe he will like being able to meet new people each night. If we want a quiet night alone we can request a table for two.
I’m assuming we can ask for different sized tables each night with open dining. Am I correct about that?