jcoulter
September 20th, 2003, 03:29 AM
(Reef Fish) wrote in
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> jcoulter > wrote in message
> 7>...
>
>> A client just back from the Island Princess was totally unimpressed
>> by the food inth e main dining room of the Island Princess, though he
>> noted that the premium restaurants were excellent. Is this a trend,
>> spotty food in the regular and good food in the pay for restaurants.
>
> I just came back from a week on the ISLAND Princess (presumably the
> same one your client was on, since it is a brand new ship).
>
> The question was specifically about the ISLAND Princess.
>
> So far, I've read all the follow-ups up to now, and I noted NO ONE
> made any specific comment about the ISLAND Princess. The tone of the
> respondents appeared to be Princess bashing, and Carnival bashing,
> regarding other Princesses.
>
>
>> Are we nickel and dining again at Princess???
>
> Possibly so. I was on the Tahiti Princess in June, 2003. The "extra"
> for dining at the "select" restaurants was $15 pp. On the Island
> Princess this month, it was $20 extra pp.
>
> I found the food in the main dining rooms in these two ships so good
> that I didn't see any reason to waste the extra for what merely look
> like a slightly better selection to some.
>
> I like seafood and steaks. On the ISLAND Princess, there was Alakan
> King Crab on the main dining room menu one night; followed by broiled
> lobster the following night. I asked for a double serving of the
> Alaskan King Crab because it's so expensive and rare on restaurant
> menus these days that the waiter brought me a double serving of
> lobsters without me asking. :-) There were other excellent dishes
> of scallops, prawns, and other seafood; as well as filet mignon and
> other choice steaks, cooked very well, from rare (my wife's choice) to
> mediam (mine).
>
> In short, I don't see anything shabby about the dinners served in the
> LATEST (I mean literally the latest, because I was off the ship only
> three days ago) Island Princess, from Anchorage to Vancouver.
>
>
> While I wouldn't call myself a gourme by any stretch of the
> imagination, U am far from a cheapskate with indiscriminant tastes
> either. :-) I have dined in enough good restaurants that charge $$$$$
> for a filet mignon; or like amount for various other seafoods that I
> feel your particular client in question must have either a very
> pecculiar tastes in food or had a particularly bad week on the Island
> Princess.
>
>
> As for cruiseship bashing ... I DID find the main dining (and
> especially the Open Deck Dining) on both the Tahiti and Island
> Princesses heads and shoulders above those on the Carnival (Paradise)
> I took in July.
>
> Perhaps in time the food in the Princess cruiseships (to be owned by
> Carnival) will decline to the level of that on the Carnival ships.
> But from I have seen in the last three months, it hasn't happened yet,
> at least not in any obvious way.
>
> The OTHER Princesses may differ. I can't comment because I haven't
> been on them, yet.
>
> As far as the ISLAND Princess is concerned, I would highly recommemnd
> it to anyone, expecially on a deeply discounted fare of about $1000 pp
> for a cabin with a private balcony on the C-Deck, that was listed at a
> price (on the ticket) of $2689 USD pp.
>
> I'll be back to a third Princess cruise next month, a 10-day one! :-)
>
> Just my $2 Polynesian Franc's worth.
>
> -- Bob.
Well, your response certainly does prove that one man's pudding is
another's poison. You and he were on the same ship.
om:
> jcoulter > wrote in message
> 7>...
>
>> A client just back from the Island Princess was totally unimpressed
>> by the food inth e main dining room of the Island Princess, though he
>> noted that the premium restaurants were excellent. Is this a trend,
>> spotty food in the regular and good food in the pay for restaurants.
>
> I just came back from a week on the ISLAND Princess (presumably the
> same one your client was on, since it is a brand new ship).
>
> The question was specifically about the ISLAND Princess.
>
> So far, I've read all the follow-ups up to now, and I noted NO ONE
> made any specific comment about the ISLAND Princess. The tone of the
> respondents appeared to be Princess bashing, and Carnival bashing,
> regarding other Princesses.
>
>
>> Are we nickel and dining again at Princess???
>
> Possibly so. I was on the Tahiti Princess in June, 2003. The "extra"
> for dining at the "select" restaurants was $15 pp. On the Island
> Princess this month, it was $20 extra pp.
>
> I found the food in the main dining rooms in these two ships so good
> that I didn't see any reason to waste the extra for what merely look
> like a slightly better selection to some.
>
> I like seafood and steaks. On the ISLAND Princess, there was Alakan
> King Crab on the main dining room menu one night; followed by broiled
> lobster the following night. I asked for a double serving of the
> Alaskan King Crab because it's so expensive and rare on restaurant
> menus these days that the waiter brought me a double serving of
> lobsters without me asking. :-) There were other excellent dishes
> of scallops, prawns, and other seafood; as well as filet mignon and
> other choice steaks, cooked very well, from rare (my wife's choice) to
> mediam (mine).
>
> In short, I don't see anything shabby about the dinners served in the
> LATEST (I mean literally the latest, because I was off the ship only
> three days ago) Island Princess, from Anchorage to Vancouver.
>
>
> While I wouldn't call myself a gourme by any stretch of the
> imagination, U am far from a cheapskate with indiscriminant tastes
> either. :-) I have dined in enough good restaurants that charge $$$$$
> for a filet mignon; or like amount for various other seafoods that I
> feel your particular client in question must have either a very
> pecculiar tastes in food or had a particularly bad week on the Island
> Princess.
>
>
> As for cruiseship bashing ... I DID find the main dining (and
> especially the Open Deck Dining) on both the Tahiti and Island
> Princesses heads and shoulders above those on the Carnival (Paradise)
> I took in July.
>
> Perhaps in time the food in the Princess cruiseships (to be owned by
> Carnival) will decline to the level of that on the Carnival ships.
> But from I have seen in the last three months, it hasn't happened yet,
> at least not in any obvious way.
>
> The OTHER Princesses may differ. I can't comment because I haven't
> been on them, yet.
>
> As far as the ISLAND Princess is concerned, I would highly recommemnd
> it to anyone, expecially on a deeply discounted fare of about $1000 pp
> for a cabin with a private balcony on the C-Deck, that was listed at a
> price (on the ticket) of $2689 USD pp.
>
> I'll be back to a third Princess cruise next month, a 10-day one! :-)
>
> Just my $2 Polynesian Franc's worth.
>
> -- Bob.
Well, your response certainly does prove that one man's pudding is
another's poison. You and he were on the same ship.