MadManOfBethesda

If that's true, then I'm more technologically challenged than I thought, lol. I had no problem accessing the Vegan menu at dinner each night, but never saw the brunch one.

Interesting. Have you seen these brunch menus? Because unlike at dinner, they weren't on the app when I sailed on Venezia over Christmas or on Glory's transatlantic that I disembarked yesterday. And the waiters seem unfamiliar with these new Vegan brunch menus too because I was told that they didn't exist and that I couldn't so much as get a veggie burger.

AFAIK, there is no special Vegan menu for brunch. In fact, you can't even get a veggie burger in lieu of the beef burger. The seaday brunch is a complete waste of time for Vegans.

Yes! I'd expect such behavior from twentysomethings on a Spring Break Caribbean cruise, but not so-called mature adults on a longer Journeys cruise. On second thought, I wouldn't even expect such behavior from them either. I even saw one fifty-something woman get up from her table and walk up to the serving line carrying her fork and just pluck out a meatball [or some other round meat object] and walk back to her table with it. I even made direct eye contact with her and said loud enough for her to hear: "Are you f'n kidding me?!" Didn't faze her at all. That was actually the point at which I had had enough and got up from my table and approached the Carnival employee to ask why they permitted this ridiculously unsanitary food frenzy when the buffet was supposed to be closed.

The food may not be disgusting, but the behavior of the clientele is. I am currently on Glory and what I witnessed in the buffet line yesterday was almost beyond belief. Yesterday was a port day in Bermuda and my wife and I returned just after 3pm, so we went upstairs to get a bite to eat and we happened to grab a table right next to the serving line. As the buffet hit its scheduled closing time of 3:30pm, staff placed signs all along the cafeteria-style line stating that the buffet was now closed. Additionally, they removed all the ladles and serving spoons from the food items. Did that stop the late-arriving passengers from getting food? Absolutely not! In fact, it became almost a feeding frenzy as passengers were doing whatever they could to get some food. This included using their own little forks and spoons and dipping them into the food items, and then handing them to other passengers who arrived at the line without their own utensils. Some were using their hands to grab at the cakes and other dessert items. I even saw one man use his hands to tear off a couple of hunks of turkey from what remained of the bird. I was absolutely appalled. I finally went up to a Carnival employee who was standing there watching all this and asked why she didn't try to put a stop to this clearly unsanitary customer behavior. Her response was that they were just going to throw all the food away anyway so it didn't matter. Needless to say, I won't be going back to the buffet for the remainder of this cruise. But then again, the food in the MDR hasn't been great on this cruise either, so that only leaves me with pizza, the deli, and room service, lol. BTW, I don't want this to come across as a general Carnival-bashing comment. This is my 4th Carnival cruise in the last 12 months encompassing 53 days of sailing, and the first 3 cruises were great. We also have a 25-night transpacific cruise coming up this October on Panorama, so I'm hoping that this has just been a one off, and that we'll have better food and better passengers on that cruise. If not, it is going to be a very looong 25 days.

Huh? What travel insurance policy covers loss due to forgetfulness?

Quest is scheduled for tonight in the Ebony Cabaret Lounge [Comedy Club Venue] on Glory's TA cruise.

WTH are you talking about?? Please point to where I said it was okay to do this. Go ahead, I'll wait.... All I did was report that the policy wasn't being enforced. At least not on this cruise because it has been the exact same thing every night for two full weeks. Wheelchairs and scooters parked in the hallways overnight, starting in the early evening. Not only that, but I even pointed out that in one of the cases, they didn't even bother to fold up the wheelchairs and created even more of a safety issue by taking up even more of the hallway. So maybe next time you should make a better attempt to understand a poster's comment before jumping down their throat because you misinterpreted what they wrote.

That may be so, but it is not being enforced. On my way to my cabin last night, I counted three Carnival Glory branded collapsable wheelchairs in the hallway outside of interior cabins (only two of which were collapsed), and one red collapsable scooter. And that was just on the port side of one of the passenger decks. No telling how many "expressly forbidden" safety hazards are occurring each night on all the decks combined.

You can in the European ports, but we're in Bermuda today.

Boy, was that an understatement, lol!

Yes, I am aware of that language on CCL's website. However, there is other language from Carnival's website that seems to contradict that. The info in the below link specifically delineates each and every PepsiCo beverage offered on CCL vessels, including all the ones that are included in the Cheers! package and those that are not. If you scroll to the bottom of the list, you can see that the two Muscle Milk protein shakes are the only two products specifically identified as being available on the ships, but not included in the Cheers package. Beverages | Carnival Cruise Line It's for the above reason that I thought that Muscle Milk did not appear to be included in the Cheers package. And while I have never gotten the Cheers package because I always have DOU through the casino, I have had a similar drinks package on another cruise line and that package did not include protein drinks because the drinks are apparently considered "food." Be that as it may, since I am currently onboard Glory, I took the opportunity to walk over to the Java Blue Cafe and confirmed that Muscle Milk is, in fact, included in the Cheers package so I stand corrected.

I don't believe that is correct.

As another poster mentioned, if this is for a medical reason, special needs can authorize an exception to that limit. But I would strongly recommend bringing a copy of that authorization in writing to show the security personnel when checking in. I received authorization to carry-on three twelve-packs of Ensure High Protein for a Carnival cruise last year, but security said they didn't know anything about my authorization and wouldn't let me through with the Ensure until I produced a written copy of the email.

I'm currently on Glory. Muscle Milk is $5.25.