Main Dining Room Table Size

[colingu]

Sailing on the Eclipse soon. Does anyone know the number of people the largest table in the main dining room will seat? We are a group of 14 celebrating 2 big birthdays, and would like to all dine together on 1 night in the main dining room.

Edited August 11, 2018 by colingu
more info

[davekathy]

Sailing on the Eclipse soon. Does anyone know the number of people the largest table in the main dining room will seat? We are a group of 14 celebrating 2 big birthdays, and would like to all dine together on 1 night in the main dining room.

Ten. Maybe you can request the Captains table. It seats twelve. ;p

Edited August 11, 2018 by davekathy

[keep on cruisin]

Sailing on the Eclipse soon. Does anyone know the number of people the largest table in the main dining room will seat? We are a group of 14 celebrating 2 big birthdays, and would like to all dine together on 1 night in the main dining room.

 

We had 17 on Summit last year. They gave us 3 tables next 2 each other. 7 at one table, 6 at another and 4 at another. We still celebrated birthdays and anniversaries. Each table was a different generation of family. For my birthday we managed to have an area of the lounge that accomodated our entire party.

 

We did have 2 different wait staff crews bug they worked together and made it great.

[ChiGal1962]

I did see one time on the Reflection that they put several rectangular tables together in the MDR to seat a group of probably 16+. Disrupted the flow of traffic in the MDR, but more importantly, if you're at a long rectangular table, people at one end can't talk to people at the other end, anyway! Frankly, I don't even like the 10-top round tables, since you tend to have a similar problem of hollering across the table to talk.

 

The setup of having multiple smaller (6-8 people) tables in a cluster not only gives you opportunity to be closer together, but you can also mix up who sits at what table each night, if you'd like. If you have Traditional (fixed) dining, make sure you call Celebrity now and let them know what you're hoping to have happen. If you have Select (flexible) dining, go see the Maitre d' on the first day (he/she will have a table set up generally outside the MDR to handle passenger questions). Let him/her know of your special requests for given days and they will likely be able to set you up in the best possible way. The more notice they have, the better they can accommodate.