On cruises there are two seating times for dinner, early and late. You are generally seated with friends or family that you are traveling with and occasionally with total strangers but always with other poker players from your group. Friends are made quickly at the dinner table. These poker players come from all over the country and all walks of life. Meal times are fun and interesting.
Regular cruises are wonderful.
If you have never taken a poker cruise, we highly suggest you try one. They are a lot of fun and there is always plenty of time for poker on the high seas. When we arrived at our table we had been assigned a table for 10. After every one had been seated we recognized four of the six other members at our table. There was a young couple we didn't know, so we introduced ourselves and asked where they played poker.