Mariner of the Seas Review Part 2

Thanks for sharing your Mariner cruise review with us, Mike. It brought back
good memories--we were on her a couple of years ago.

I'm with you, my Perfect Cruise is heavy on the RCI, Carnival and Princess,
with a touch of Celebrity.

Diana Ball
near Houston, TX

> Overall- Great cruise (hard to have a bad one) Like most frequent
> cruisers, I would like to combine several of my cruises to get the
> "Perfect Cruise" Maybe the Mariner plus the Carnival Glory's foodservice
> might be the right combinations. You will enjoy the Mariner just don't
> expect fine dining. (Off to Princess and Celebrity I guess)

Mike85 wrote:

> The Food- Uh, oh. All good until here. We found the food to be spotty
> at best. Some things like the daily fresh bread were great. However
> many of the entrees and deserts were ok if not bad. I can eat fast
> food, chain restaurant, or gourmet food and if it is done right I
> have no complaints. The Mariner has some work to do with the food.

Thanks for sharing your cruise review with us, Mike, I enjoyed reading it.

When I cruise on RCI, I enjoy the ships, but you are right about the
food. I have cruised on RCI 6 times and their lunch buffets are not the
best. Their breakfast buffets are very good and their dining room food
is not bad. They have some unique salad dressings and some of their
desserts were very good, although I have been skipping desserts on my
past few cruises.

Carnival's food has spoiled me. I tend to compare every cruise line's
food to theirs.

Becca

"Mike85" <MPeskosky@carolina.> wrote in message
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> The Food- Uh, oh. All good until here. We found the food to be spotty at
> best. Some things like the daily fresh bread were great. However many of
> the entrees and deserts were ok if not bad. I can eat fast food, chain
> restaurant, or gourmet food and if it is done right I have no complaints.
> The Mariner has some work to do with the food. Carnival overall was much
> better. All 7 people in my party said that. The first night we had a great
> Cod dish. Later we had a terrible jerk chicken. One night they didn't
> have any Red Snapper. Weird because that was the Chefs recommendation on
> the menu. We had a dessert one night that all 7 people pushed away. (We
> are a big dessert family)


Thanks for you review, Mike..we very much agree with you about the food on
RCL..I wonder how long it will take them to remedy it as their ships are so
beautiful otherwise. Carnival seems to be taking first place in the food
department anymore!


>Speaking of people, no difference between Carnival or Royal regarding
>attire. No effort to stop shorts, jeans, tea shirts, etc. in the beautiful
>dining room.


It is getting that way more and more on most of the cruise lines. The more
slovenly that you look, the better it seems! Yuck!


>We saw one girl come to dinner in ragged jeans with holes. I thought she
>was going to the auto body shop.

LOL! Don't you know that is the *style * now!! Ridiculous...we didn't wear
jeans when I was in school, but if pants were in that condtion then, they
would have been in the rag bag long before they got that way! And people pay
dearly for them in that condition now, too!

Glad that you had a nice cruise despite the food.
Interesting review!
--Jean

LOL! Don't you know that is the *style * now!! Ridiculous...we didn't wear
jeans when I was in school, but if pants were in that condtion then, they
would have been in the rag bag long before they got that way! And people pay
dearly for them in that condition now, too!

It may be the style but she was definitely not stylish! I think if people
are going to dress like that, maybe we should have a cruise ship with long
picnic tables and paper on the tables. Maybe jars with crayons as well. Why
waste the expense of the beautiful dining room. While were at it, maybe
brown paper bags to hand out the food too!

"Jean O'Boyle" <j.oboyle@removefudged.> wrote in message
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> "Mike85" <MPeskosky@carolina.> wrote in message
> news:seuNe.5835$ll3.91419@twister.southeast. ...
>>
>> The Food- Uh, oh. All good until here. We found the food to be spotty at
>> best. Some things like the daily fresh bread were great. However many of
>> the entrees and deserts were ok if not bad. I can eat fast food, chain
>> restaurant, or gourmet food and if it is done right I have no complaints.
>> The Mariner has some work to do with the food. Carnival overall was much
>> better. All 7 people in my party said that. The first night we had a
>> great Cod dish. Later we had a terrible jerk chicken. One night they
>> didn't have any Red Snapper. Weird because that was the Chefs
>> recommendation on the menu. We had a dessert one night that all 7 people
>> pushed away. (We are a big dessert family)
>
>
> Thanks for you review, Mike..we very much agree with you about the food on
> RCL..I wonder how long it will take them to remedy it as their ships are
> so beautiful otherwise. Carnival seems to be taking first place in the
> food department anymore!
>
>
>>Speaking of people, no difference between Carnival or Royal regarding
>>attire. No effort to stop shorts, jeans, tea shirts, etc. in the beautiful
>>dining room.
>
>
> It is getting that way more and more on most of the cruise lines. The more
> slovenly that you look, the better it seems! Yuck!
>
>
>>We saw one girl come to dinner in ragged jeans with holes. I thought she
>>was going to the auto body shop.
>
> LOL! Don't you know that is the *style * now!! Ridiculous...we didn't
> wear jeans when I was in school, but if pants were in that condtion then,
> they would have been in the rag bag long before they got that way! And
> people pay dearly for them in that condition now, too!
>
> Glad that you had a nice cruise despite the food.
> Interesting review!
> --Jean
>
>

"Sue and Kevin Mullen" <kjmullen@> wrote in message
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>
> This link just took me to the page where you sign up. What are you using
> as a "user name" on webshots and I can find the right link?
>

I used tkanitra

--Tom

Thanks for the pix, Tom. I hope you'll put your other port and shipboard
photos up, too.

....can't wait for you and Charles to tell us about all the havoc you Vikings
wreaked!

Diana Ball
near Houston, TX

In article <K8snf.14407$O05.3846@fe09.lga>, Tom K
<tkanitra@> wrote:

> I stood on the dock... looked out 100 ft. to water where the Carnival pier
> once stood, looked at the shore where Sr. Frogs stood,

That is the small extension Sr. Frogs at the Carnival pier. The main
Sr. Frogs and Carlos and Charlies at the Langosta pier suffered less
damage and could be open in a month or two.

I went downtown after Paradise Beach (Tom went back to the ship). Many
of the stores are up and running downtown. A lot of work has been done
there and is being done there. It does not look bad there, a lot of
damage was to second floors.

Got to run...maybe more later

--
Charles