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In article .com,
Warren wrote: In the open seating "main" dining rooms, NCL serves the same menu. What's so difficult about selecting one venue? The food is the same. The menus in the main dining rooms are somewhat different. The same entrees are served but in a slightly different style. Maybe you did not read them carefully and did not notice. -- Charles |
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"Charles" wrote in message
d... In article .com, Warren wrote: In the open seating "main" dining rooms, NCL serves the same menu. What's so difficult about selecting one venue? The food is the same. The menus in the main dining rooms are somewhat different. The same entrees are served but in a slightly different style. Maybe you did not read them carefully and did not notice. -- Charles We found the two different main dining room menus different enough that we sometimes checked both before deciding which dining room we'd eat in. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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"LeeNY" wrote in message
ups.com... Warren wrote: You would never even consider it an option in Vegas or DisneyWorld, for instance. Actually, it happens at Disney. Any of the dinner shows (Luau, etc) are shared tables (unless your party takes up an entire table) as is the Japanese hibachi restaurant (you'll find this style restaurant in Vegas as well). It's not the norm, but it happens. Any of the dim sum restaurants in Chinatown (NYC) are shared tables - and usually the language barrier prevents any kind of communication. There's a landmark restaurant in Boston - "Durgin-Park" - where the norm is to share tables. But, comparing a cruise to a land-based vacation, as far as dining goes, is a tough comparison. I compare cruising more with the old Catskill resort model (think Dirty Dancing) where there were set dining times, tables were filled by either your party or other guests, planned activities, social hosts, etc. Different than going to a Disney/Vegas hotel and really being entirely independent (even on freestyle cruises, you do have to be on the ship at a certain time, activities are schedule - if you wish to partake, etc.). I thought it was called "open seating" and, yes, that's the style at Durgin Park. I lived overseas for a couple of years. Many of the restaurants had open seating, at least for people that didn't have obvious families along, and that was one way you made friends. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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"Charles" wrote in message d... In article .com, Warren wrote: In the open seating "main" dining rooms, NCL serves the same menu. What's so difficult about selecting one venue? The food is the same. The menus in the main dining rooms are somewhat different. The same entrees are served but in a slightly different style. Maybe you did not read them carefully and did not notice. -- Charles I totally missed that on our last NCL cruise. I never thought to read the menu's that carefully. |
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In article .com,
Warren wrote: Or maybe the differences were so insignificant to me that it didn't matter. Maybe, but for some it did matter and that is why they checked the menus every day. -- Charles |
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In article , RichC
wrote: I totally missed that on our last NCL cruise. I never thought to read the menu's that carefully. If you looked at the menu of the Aqua (on Dawn) is where you would notice a difference. The menu there had a contemporary style, lighter, more modern, while the other two main dining rooms had a traditional style on the same items. -- Charles |
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Why is it their is rarely mashed potaos served?
"Charles" wrote in message d... In article , RichC wrote: I totally missed that on our last NCL cruise. I never thought to read the menu's that carefully. If you looked at the menu of the Aqua (on Dawn) is where you would notice a difference. The menu there had a contemporary style, lighter, more modern, while the other two main dining rooms had a traditional style on the same items. -- Charles |
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"Warren" wrote in message oups.com... Sue and Kevin Mullen wrote: Only problem is that DH and I would have to agree on a dining room and time, still too much like at home. In the open seating "main" dining rooms, NCL serves the same menu. What's so difficult about selecting one venue? The food is the same. But on our sailing it wasn't just the main dining rooms people were looking at. It was all the specialty restaurants as well. It was an "on board activity" figuring out what you wanted to eat that night. Maybe in the afternoon... by the end of the cruise, after a lot of heavy eating, you'd feel in the mood for something lighter that evening, so you'd go see what's on the Japanese restaurant menu. It actually became a social activity, looking at the menu's, discussing them with other passengers. I suspect a number of arrangements to meet for dinner were even made while looking at menu's. --Tom |
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