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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I really dislike how they seat you with another family at dinner (although apparently you can request out of this, maybe?).[/quote]

Are you antisocial?[/quote]

8:04 PP, apparently I am. We opted out. There were only 3 of us, and we would have been with a group of 6 or 8. [/quote]

You sound fun.  :roll: [/quote]

Yeah you can definitely opt out of sitting with another family.  We have always done that and it worked out well.[/quote]

I’m the original PP that said I dislike it.  The problem in part is that it’s the same family.  Our kids don’t really hit it off—theirs was very shy.  And  after the first night, you’ve covered all the “where are you from? Is this your first cruise?” Etc questions.  And then it’s really awkward because you don’t have that much to discuss but then you feel weird having private family conversations in front of them.  I can see it working if you just really hit it off with the other family, but we didn’t have that much in common and we exhausted the basic chit chat pretty quickly.  I’m actually a really social person and I think if they had rotated us around to different families every night, I would have found it much less awkward. It was like being on a never ending first date when you know ithetes no second date potential.   [b]I’ve been told that it’s at their discretion whether  to grant a request for an individual table and if the ship is crowded they might not grant   that.  [/b]We’re a family of 5 so maybe they want to stick us with a three to make an 8 top?  [/quote]

If you make the request ahead of time I’ve never heard of them not honoring it. And, if you’d gone to guest services after one awkward dinner they would have moved you. In a totally worst case scenario, you could move your dining time. Sitting with strangers would be a complete non-started for me and we’ve cruised with them several times and never had an issue.[/quote]

This.

You request it at the outset and you check in with the MDR shortly after boarding to see what your dining situation is.

We’ve graduated from Disney to other lines, but[b] we’ve never had a bad table on a cruise[/b]. [/quote]
Oh, we have.  We were originally assigned to a table with a couple who had left their kids with grandparents to have a childless cruise.  We had a 3 and 5 yo.  We asked to switch tables and they assigned us to a table in the very back, by the kitchen and waitress stand, and with a trainee waiter.  It was awful.  We ended up finding other places to eat dinner.[/quote]

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