Personal Dining for 6 people?

[Sunmist]

I'm going on the CB in July and I'm wondering if we should switch to personal dining or keep our late traditional reservation. I'm thinking late traditional is going to take too long and not give us enough time to catch the shows. Has anyone had a big party and done personal dining and if so how long did you have to wait to be seated?

 

Any advice would be great! Thanks!!

[Iamcruzin]

We had late seating during our first trip on CB. We never made the shows. Last time on CB we selected anytime dining and ate between 7:00 and 7:30. It was just the two of us at first until we met another couple. We did not have to wait to seat 4 at a table as long as we were willing to eat with 4 other passengers. It is faster to seat large parties than getting a table for 2 without a wait. You will actually have an advantage with 6 people being seated at one table. Also the Palm diningroom seems to be less crowded because it is difficult to find. There is no direct route to get there. You have to walk up to deck 7, walk across the ship (AFT) and walk down to deck 6 to get there. The Coral diningroom is more popular because it is mid ship and just in plain site on deck 6.

[gertz]

We always do early traditional dining table for 6 or for 8 and always make the shows.:D

What might also give you a problem in getting to the shows is the extra people that ship carries. You just have to be a little faster.:cool:

Jack

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[cjpj]

I've always done late traditional and never had a problem making the shows.

[sharpie13]

We recommend keeping you late traditional dining. Our experince on Princess has been that while anytime dining works great for smaller groups, groups of 6-8 sometime have difficulties getting dining reservations that all you to attend the shows.

[cynbar]

I thinnk the bigger question is whether the 6 of you will all want to eat together at the same time every night. If yes, then go with traditional and just let your waiter know when you want to hurry along to make a show (they are mostly timed to work well with the traditional dining times anyway.) But if you want to vary your dining times according to your daily schedule, or eat several times in the buffet or the specialty restaurants, then choose anytime. You can always call in the AM if you want to make a reservation, you'll have more flexibility, and you won't be taking up traditional dining slots when others would use them more. Six of you is a lot to get a consensus from!