Dawn Princess or Celebrity Galaxy?

In article , Tom & Linda
wrote:

Excuse me... but I don't remember seeing you on the ship with me.

Or being with me the night that after a few beers we wanted something to
nibble, and all there was in Grand Princess' buffet was vinyl desserts.
That was probably about midnight or 1:00 am.

I stand by the reality of what was the Vinyl desserts like Napoleon
and mini fruit tart cups.

Gee. I have been on Grand Princess three times, I have a pretty good
idea what is available at midnight or 1:00 am. I was not on the same
sailing but I was on Grand Princess the same year, in May 2002. Also I
was just on Island Princess and Princess still offers Anytime dining,
including a Bistro between 11:00 pm and 4:00 am just like they did last
year on Grand Princess.

--
Charles

We didn't show up a lot of nights for vinyl.

Maybe once on GrandP. Not much point to going back if you don't like
it. Several times on DawnP and OceanP because that's where they had the
guitar player performing late at night. There we went for the music and
brewskies, not the pastries.

--Tom

Howard Garland wrote:

Tom & Linda wrote:

Maybe you stayed up dancing so late that you saw the breakfast buffet.

Could be, Tom. I'm always starved after 4 or 5 hours of moving.

I don't remember seeing you either with us the night in the Horizon
court on Grand Princess (summer 2002) when we wanted something more than
vinyl desserts.... and that's all we found.

--Tom

Was it only one night that you had this experience?

Howie

Does that mean that you agree that the Horizon Court buffet (operative
word buffet - the term I used) only has vinyl tasting desserts at
night? And does not have other food type of items available at the
buffet stations? No mini sandwiches. Or anything similar to that?

--Tom

Charles wrote:

In article , Tom & Linda
wrote:

Maybe it was after your bed time and you were dreaming that it was a
full buffet.

The Horizon Court Bistro is a waiter-menu service. Somehow you must
have missed it.

--
Charles

In article , Tom & Linda
wrote:

Does that mean that you agree that the Horizon Court buffet (operative

The Horizon Court is turned into a Bistro between 11:00pm and 4am where
you order food ala carte off a menu. I never called it a buffet. I
always called it a Bistro. You are the one insisting that there are
only desserts offered in the Horizon Court and worrying Bill C. to
think there is no food available when you can gorge yourself on steak
etc. As for desserts, I never had any vinyl desserts on Princess. They
always tasted good. Celebrity does offer better and more fancy desserts
at their buffets. It is just about the only thing not lousy there.

By the way if I were picking between Dawn Princess and Galaxy I would
pick Galaxy because I think it is a cool ship, if the price and
itinerary were equal. Food is equal, the difference in dining hours is
not very important to me, and unlike Bill C. I don't desire a midnight
repast. If it had been Bill C. asking the question though he would be
advised to stay away from Celebrity and stick with Princess and
Carnival.

--
Charles

Charles wrote:

In article , Tom & Linda
wrote:

Does that mean that you agree that the Horizon Court buffet (operative

The Horizon Court is turned into a Bistro between 11:00pm and 4am where
you order food ala carte off a menu. I never called it a buffet. I
always called it a Bistro. You are the one insisting that there are
only desserts offered in the Horizon Court and worrying Bill C. to
think there is no food available when you can gorge yourself on steak
etc.

This is exactly what I wrote (copied and pasted):
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Galaxy has traditional dining (which I prefer), while Princess does
personal choice. There are times of the day when Galaxy's buffet is
closed, but Dawn's is open, but some of those times - like late evening,
all you get is vinyl tasting desserts.
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I called it a buffet. I didn't accuse you of calling it a buffet.

I didn't use the term Horizon Court in my original reply. Just the term
buffet.


As for desserts, I never had any vinyl desserts on Princess. They
always tasted good. Celebrity does offer better and more fancy desserts
at their buffets. It is just about the only thing not lousy there.

Princess desserts in the dining room after dinner were rather good.
Especially the soufflés. Generally better than Celebrity desserts. But
the desserts at the buffet late at night were horrendous... hence my
term vinyl tasting. Very poor quality. Not worth eating.

--Tom


By the way if I were picking between Dawn Princess and Galaxy I would
pick Galaxy because I think it is a cool ship, if the price and
itinerary were equal. Food is equal, the difference in dining hours is
not very important to me, and unlike Bill C. I don't desire a midnight
repast. If it had been Bill C. asking the question though he would be
advised to stay away from Celebrity and stick with Princess and
Carnival.

--
Charles

As of November 20, 5:45 AM:

Diva asked a bad question. Dawn P vs. Galaxy, which do most prefer. It
was a bad question because it requires that the respondent know
something about the distribution of preferences in this ng.

Tom responded with his preferences, based upon having experienced the
Ocean P and Galaxy.

Diva responded thanks but never mind, cause I'm going on the NCL Dawn.

Tom wished her well.

Bill, who must be a reasonably cool dude, cause he stays up late and
likes to eat, voiced his disappointment about vinyl pastries (mentioned
in Tom's post) being the only thing to eat on Princess. Because Bill
has never been on Princess, he did not pick up on the fact that Tom was
only referring to buffet food.

Charles, who is a knowledgeable dude and values fact over opinion,
assured Bill that he could eat more than just vinyl pastries late at
night on Princess. He also (as he is prone to do) threw in a little
zinger about Tom posting misinformation.

Howard, who is a nasty dude, threw a dart of his own toward to Tom.

Tom responded with a fast but ineffective comeback.

Howard, who is nasty, but doesn't really want to hurt anyone's feelings,
responded with such subtle nastiness that only he, Eileen, and perhaps
Diana Ball could pick this up.

Tom, in his usual good humor, forgave Howard, and added small talk.

Meanwhile, Bill is happy cause Charles has reassured him that he can eat
late on Princess.

Karen reveals that she is a night owl on ships.

Howard is intrigued by this because he has also just learned that Karen
has a tattoo; and obviously, these to pieces of data don't fit his image
of her from RTC.

Tom, now over his anger at Howard, picks a fight with Charles.

Charles, who never backs down from a fight, list his credentials
(multiple Princess Cruises).

Tom throws a zinger, thinking that maybe Charles is one of those "early
to bed nerds." Wrong!

Charles, keeps his cool (as always) and turns the debate into one of
factual issues.

Tom wants a concession to re-establish his manhood.

Charles holds his ground.

Tom continues.

Lee disses all of rtc by telling Bill not to believe anything he reads
on rtc.

Eileen reassures Bill, once again, that he won't starve late night on
Princess.

So whadda think folks, is there a market for thread summaries on rtc?

Howie - just chillen

Summary sounds good. I lost track after the first 3 posts. Is there also an
official score card?

--
Greg
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"Howard Garland" wrote in message
...
As of November 20, 5:45 AM:

Diva asked a bad question. Dawn P vs. Galaxy, which do most prefer. It
was a bad question because it requires that the respondent know
something about the distribution of preferences in this ng.

Tom responded with his preferences, based upon having experienced the
Ocean P and Galaxy.

Diva responded thanks but never mind, cause I'm going on the NCL Dawn.

Tom wished her well.

Bill, who must be a reasonably cool dude, cause he stays up late and
likes to eat, voiced his disappointment about vinyl pastries (mentioned
in Tom's post) being the only thing to eat on Princess. Because Bill
has never been on Princess, he did not pick up on the fact that Tom was
only referring to buffet food.

Charles, who is a knowledgeable dude and values fact over opinion,
assured Bill that he could eat more than just vinyl pastries late at
night on Princess. He also (as he is prone to do) threw in a little
zinger about Tom posting misinformation.

Howard, who is a nasty dude, threw a dart of his own toward to Tom.

Tom responded with a fast but ineffective comeback.

Howard, who is nasty, but doesn't really want to hurt anyone's feelings,
responded with such subtle nastiness that only he, Eileen, and perhaps
Diana Ball could pick this up.

Tom, in his usual good humor, forgave Howard, and added small talk.

Meanwhile, Bill is happy cause Charles has reassured him that he can eat
late on Princess.

Karen reveals that she is a night owl on ships.

Howard is intrigued by this because he has also just learned that Karen
has a tattoo; and obviously, these to pieces of data don't fit his image
of her from RTC.

Tom, now over his anger at Howard, picks a fight with Charles.

Charles, who never backs down from a fight, list his credentials
(multiple Princess Cruises).

Tom throws a zinger, thinking that maybe Charles is one of those "early
to bed nerds." Wrong!

Charles, keeps his cool (as always) and turns the debate into one of
factual issues.

Tom wants a concession to re-establish his manhood.

Charles holds his ground.

Tom continues.

Lee disses all of rtc by telling Bill not to believe anything he reads
on rtc.

Eileen reassures Bill, once again, that he won't starve late night on
Princess.

So whadda think folks, is there a market for thread summaries on rtc?

Howie - just chillen

Gregory C. Read wrote:

Summary sounds good. I lost track after the first 3 posts. Is there also an
official score card?

Diva - one error
Tom - struck out
Charles - easy home run
Howard - couple of singles
etc.

You mean this kind of score card?

"Howard Garland" wrote in message
...
Gregory C. Read wrote:

Summary sounds good. I lost track after the first 3 posts. Is there also
an
official score card?

Diva - one error
Tom - struck out
Charles - easy home run
Howard - couple of singles
etc.

You mean this kind of score card?


Yes. That clears everything up.

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Greg
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