Anytime Dining and wait times for 10 people

[Kudos2Fly]

What is the wait time for 10 people when doing Anytime dining? Our group normally likes to eat early. We like to be done by 7:30. Also we have two kids 13 and 15 who eat by 7 anyways. 

 

[prmssk]

If you always like to eat early and you are not on an Edge class ship, you may want to try to switch to early dining with a group that size.  Then you would have no wait, you would get the same table and the same wait staff every day.

[Arizona Wildcat]

5 minutes ago, Kudos2Fly said:

What is the wait time for 10 people when doing Anytime dining? Our group normally likes to eat early. We like to be done by 7:30. Also we have two kids 13 and 15 who eat by 7 anyways. 

 

What ship?

[Kudos2Fly]

1 minute ago, Arizona Wildcat said:

What ship?

Equinox

[foodsvcmgr]

Agree that it will be much simpler, far less aggravation, and an overall better experience for your group of 10 to reserve early seating fixed dining.

[Kudos2Fly]

3 minutes ago, prmssk said:

If you always like to eat early and you are not on an Edge class ship, you may want to try to switch to early dining with a group that size.  Then you would have no wait, you would get the same table and the same wait staff every day.

The original plan was when everyone booked to do 6pm, but some how a couple of people booked with anytime. So trying to figure out how to handle this. If those that did anytime up in a waitlist for 6pm. But don't know if this will be done during a summer July cruise. 

[Arizona Wildcat]

3 minutes ago, Kudos2Fly said:

Equinox

You will find things work much better with adjacent tables for 4 and 6.  Service when then put two tables together is difficult for the servers and usually very slow.

Without a fixed time AND the reservations all linked together even harder.

Two adjacent tables will give you the flexibility you said you want.  6:30 is probably the busiest time.

Edited February 1, 2023 by Arizona Wildcat

[Kudos2Fly]

1 minute ago, Arizona Wildcat said:

You will find things work much better with adjacent tables for 4 and 6.  Service when then put two tables together is difficult for the servers and usually very slow.

We have been on family cruises of 20+ people. This does work out fine, normally you are still next to each other. Not a problem. Just don't want to be in a different dining room or in totally different areas of the dining room. We are all on the same deck with rooms, but not in the same locations. Some are in the front, middle and back of the ship. 

[Kudos2Fly]

8 minutes ago, Arizona Wildcat said:

You will find things work much better with adjacent tables for 4 and 6.  Service when then put two tables together is difficult for the servers and usually very slow.

Without a fixed time AND the reservations all linked together even harder.

Two adjacent tables will give you the flexibility you said you want.  6:30 is probably the busiest time.

We were going to link them, but didn't know that two family groups had done Anytime which is causing this "little" issue. I'm sure this will get worked out. But looking to see what we can live with.... LOL

[D C]

10 of you can be seated at a single table. That shouldn't be an issue.  If you prefer to dine early there is likely to be one available.   The good thing is that even with anytime dining, they assume you're a creature of habit, so they hold the same table for you every day at that time. 

 

If you want to 100% be sure, you can let them know and make reservations for the same time every night.  We had 19 of us and made reservations once, but ended up at the same 2 tables every night, regardless of whether some dined elsewhere.