Dinner table choice

[esimon]

We will be on Nordam in Feb. Can we show up for open seating and ask for a specific table?

 

 

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[SandRaven]

I haven't cruised in a while, but yes, you can request a table when you arrive for dinner, and if it is available and is currently staffed, they may comply, but it's an exception, not a rule. :o

[CruiserBruce]

You can ask. The worst they can say is no, for whatever reason.

Edited January 26, 2015 by CruiserBruce

[Vict0riann]

I wonder, if you know the number of the table you want, if it would be better to call the first day and reserve it for dinner that night. Then, once you have "staked your claim" you might just be able to roll up and ask for it over and over, as you know the servers, etc.?

[ellieanne]

On my recent cruise, I had fixed seating, but because we needed a table for 6, we were on the lower floor of the dining room, surrounded by tables for the anytime dining. I saw two tables that were occupied by the same people every night.

 

One may have been a fixed seating table but I am not sure. The other was directly behind me and was occupied by a particularly rude and insistent couple every night. On the first night, the couple was escorted to a different table which they loudly protested was unacceptable and looking around, they just sat at the table behind me. The second night, the same situation occurred. The couple was escorted to a different table but demanded loudly that they wanted the table behind me. The third night they were initially seated at a table different section, but moved, with their appetizer plates and drinks!, to the table behind me (I cannot imagine what a headache that was for the waiters). At no time was anything said to the couple. By the fourth night, they were just walking to the table without waiting to be escorted.

 

I am not sure of what happened at the door or what happened behind the scenes, but for the remainder of the 14-day cruise that couple was escorted to that table every night.

 

I've never had open seating so I am not certain if this is the norm, but I'm pretty sure it was not as there were many discussions between my waiters (who also served the table behind me) and the head waiter and dining room manager over the course of the first 5 or 6 days.

[PathfinderEss]

We will be on Nordam in Feb. Can we show up for open seating and ask for a specific table?

 

 

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Yes you can ask. Below I have put a link to the dinning room layout on the Noordam. You will be eating in the lower one which is designated for open seating.

http://halfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NODM.pdf

[POA1]

In our first and only foray into open dining, we had almost the same four top every night in the MDR. We ate with Cruz Chic, and liked our dining stewards & wine steward very much. We simply asked nicely and they were able to accommodate us.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Many people here who have had Open Seating have reported that if they liked the table, they would ask for it again and never had a problem getting the same table.

[SJSULIBRARIAN]

The confirmation you receive each day for open seating ( when you make a reservation), says Table such and such is assigned but not guraranteed. Most of the time in Open Seating when we request a table we do get it.

[jtl513]

On our last cruise I went armed with a list of 2-tops. On the first day I went down that list with a steward at a podium outside the Lido until we hit one that wasn't taken yet. After that, each day we automatically received a card saying that table was "assigned but not guaranteed" ... even on those days when I had told them that we would we would be eating in one of the alternate restaurants.

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Edited January 26, 2015 by jtl513