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| Are passengers able to dine with the captain on any of the ships? Apart from seeing him and the officers at the welcome party that is?
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Commodore
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| I believe he hosts a table as do most of the senior team. Anyone know how they pick the guests for the officers tables? I meant to ask because last cruise we were with the Executive Purser & before that with the First & Third officers. We are ''nobodies'' & have an ordinary room.
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| As a friend of mine said. If they ever asked me to the captain's table I'd tell them I don't dine with staff!
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Most definitely YES.
A couple of cruises ago our cabin phone rang and it was the restaurant manager asking if we'd mind if the Captain joined our table for dinner. Needless to say we had NO objections, neither did any of other table companions. It was a very entertaining evening with Captain Hamish Reid.
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On our last cruise a couple from our table got an invite to dine with the captain because they had been on that ship more days in total (when you added up their cruises) than any other passenger and also more than the captain.
Carol
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| I got the impression that Captain Walters on Arcdia had a table, maybe he moves about as well.
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I think, John, it depends on the Captain. Most of the time on P&O there is a table which the Captain will "join" on the nights that he is in for dinner but it is conceivable that there is a "Captain's Table" to which different passengers are invited on each occasion that he dines - this is certainly the practise on some American ships (perhaps another Carnival influence!)
David
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You do not know what you do not know!
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| We have dined at two Captain's tables, with their wives too, on the Formal nights of a cruise and on some of the other nights. We have also dined on the Executive Purser's table twice through most nights of a cruise as well as on a few other cruises with others from the Officers team, a mixture of oil, water and hotel. On the Aurora cruise this June 2009 we had five different members of the Hotel team, one for each formal night at our table, which are table steward explained to us on the first night. One of the Hotel team on our table was also our table host at the Gold Lunch. On Fred Olsen we were once asked to join the Captain's Table on the Farewell Gala night.
Derek “The Monocled Mutineer” Kane
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| I presumed that our Capt. had a table as he apologised for not going to dinner because he was need on the bridge due to bad weather...he went on to say "anyone been to Bari before....no....I just wondered where it was!!"
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Derek
On these many occasions who is it that seeks you out?
The Captain personally, or does he leave it to the Pursers staff
Obviously you are a man very much in demand, interesting and influential
Ray
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