Our anniversary cruise april 2 2007 pride of hawaii. Free style cruising Means We allready got our tip! Your on Your own for the next week and Your probably better off eating on shore if you have a palate. And why your at it stop at the abc store you should get a two litier bottle of soda,You'll save yourself about 38 bucks. Because nothing here's free!. It's pretty sad that the food at the Hard Rock Cafe in Maui was the best meal we had all week. And the servers were actually pleasent.
Hello and welcome to cruise chat. Sorry if we didn't weep with you for your story. I like to test the waters a bit to see if this kind of post is what we call here, "a drive-by poster", (someone who spews and flies off never to post again,) but if you reply then we know we can have some dialogue.
Have you cruised before on any other lines or was this your first? I am sorry it was a downer, sounds like a bad case of "what else can go wrong?"
Chef Ken
By the way, I appreciate your witty response "..a barge with a credit card.."
To Chef Ken No this was'st our first cruise we've cruised with carnival before and we come from a family of cruiser's. Our family booked three cruises at the same time two for NCL and one for Prinsess Star for Alaska in august. We were kinda the sacraficial lambs for Pride Of Hawaii free style cruise april 02 2007. My wife is disabled and uses a wheelchair. We learned from our first cruise to take two wheelchairs for travel a powerchair for onboard and at ports and a manual chair for tendor excursions. We had booked this trip last august through AAA travel. We were reluctant to book our excursions prior to our cruise due to accessibility issues,As soon as we got on ship we hit the shore excursion desk to book our luau volcanos and maui on your own. The shore excursion desk called our stateroom later that night to inform us that they could not get a bus with a lift for our volcanos trip. What we think is that we were the only wheel chair for that trip and they were saving the bus for the more expensive that just happened to have another wheelchair rider. The desk offered a 20% discount for the trip so we went 6.5 hours was definately to long. we had a few other problems lifts not working not being able to book dinners for decent ours I had 3 meals on ship 1 at papas 1 at cagneys and 1 at le bistro which was a complimentry dinner from a anniversary package that I got billed for. and we did have dinner on formal night at the grand pacific. None of which we found to be exceptional and the cafe was out of the question, the food tasted like the hand sanitizer that seems to stop people from washing thier hands. The islands were beautiful But cruising is also supposed to be about the food.
Originally posted by thejunks: But cruising is also supposed to be about the food.
Definitely chose the wrong cruise for the food. We have done 12 cruises on different lines and the only one worse than NCL was a Greek line (now defunct) The food was not good at all on NCL.
On another subject other than Junk, will you be writing a review on the Island P cruise? We will be on the Diamond for the same trip on Dec 3rd, and would like your opinion on the 15 days. This will be our first cruise away from NCL in many years, and certainly wished NCL offered the same cruise from LA and back.
One thing that I found disconcerting on NCL was the menu descriptions in the dining rooms.
Pork back ribs were actually side ribs, and only three bones....not a rack.
Rack of lamb was actually three bones already carved off.
And "Bahama Lobster Tail" was acually a 3.5oz split rock tail instead of a 7oz whole or butterflied tail.
Descriptive menus are great, but accuracy is another thing. I guess it just added a little disapointment upon presentation. I didn't complain but I know a few chef's that would make a quick call to the maitre'd.
Hi Dan, Haven't seen you for a while. Truth in advertising doesn't seem to apply there! The dead give away would be the "Bahama Lobster tail." I wonder if they called it that because it was as far removed from Maine as possible? You may as well have had crawfish! Knowing that I think I would have ordered a couple of entrees. Sad part is it was probably over-cooked but that is not unusual either.
I agree 100% on the quality issue with NCL's food (actually the entire dinning experience). If the menu's mis-statement of the item was the only problem it would not have been a big deal. But I have had better food at Chili's than on NCL (not that I dislike Chili's but I expected better food on a cruise ship)
Chef Ken- What's wrong with Crawfish? a good crawfish boil would have been welcome. On the Dream, they set up a couple of weber BBQ grills on the pool deck and made grilled chicken/burgers every day. It was served buffet style. Just want I wanted, go on a cruise and stand in grill smoke for 10 mins trying to get a burnt piece of chicken.... A good cajun crawdad boil would have been better. Boil up a big kettle and just dump them right there on the deck...
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Chef Ken- What's wrong with Crawfish? a good crawfish boil would have been welcome. On the Dream, they set up a couple of weber BBQ grills on the pool deck and made grilled chicken/burgers every day. It was served buffet style. Just want I wanted, go on a cruise and stand in grill smoke for 10 mins trying to get a burnt piece of chicken.... A good cajun crawdad boil would have been better. Boil up a big kettle and just dump them right there on the deck...
Actually Jim, nothing! I would prefer the crawfish to the small tails and there isn't anything quite like a crawfish boil!! MMMM- mm. I'll start out with a 2 lb. platter and good ale, in the words of the late Justin Wilson, "Wooo-eee, I gah-rahn-tee!
