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Day 15: Port Day - EnsenadaBreakfast sandwich, avocado toastAvocado toast w/egg, hashbrownsMojk Vegan Tacos: This place was legit! Every thing is vegan. The menu is all in Spanish so if you don't read/speak Spanish plan ahead or google translate the menu if you have cell service. They also do not speak much English but pointing works. My Spanish is rusty but I can still read pretty well. Speaking not so much so there was a lot of pointing at the menu and using my fingers to indicate how many we wanted. Also they brought everything out one at a time and in the order we ordered. We didn't mind but got our chips and guac at the end when we were already pretty full.
Cauliflower "fish" tacos. This was amazing!! Best cauliflower taco we have ever had!
Salsa roja and Aji Amarillo (yellow one, so spicy!!!). I hear her say what the yellow one was when she set it down but it didn't register so when I tried it I was in tears! Aji Amarillo peppers are ~50,000 Scoville's compared to a jalapeno which is about 7,000. As soon as I ate it my brain was like "oh she said Aji Amarillo!". Thanks slow brain!
Asada taco (left) Chorizo queso taco (right). The Asada taco was amazing! Smoky and yummy! Would definitely get that one and the cauliflower taco again. The chorizo one was good too but we both preferred the other.
Dorados w/nopales. The nopales were really good. We added them to a few things. Neither of us had ever had them but enjoyed them. The dorados were good, extremely hot (heat not spice) and stayed that way for a bit! The pickled onions on top really added some nice flavor.
Chips and Guac. Good!
Night 15: Vegan menu for the last night
Fried tomatoes w/Remoulade. These were ok. Kind of bland without the remoulade. I ate mine and Erik's and he had most of my soup.
Minestrone. This was ok but I wouldn't call it minestrone. No pasta or beans. Mostly potatoes and carrots.
Enchiladas. Again these tasted better than they looked. Erik really enjoyed them. I am not a huge fan of vegan cheese but the sauces were good.
Penne w/roasted tomatoes, broccoli & cream. This is what it was advertised as but there was no broccoli, they added the vegan shrimp instead. I would have preferred broccoli. Otherwise it was fine. I probably wouldn't get it again.
Shots! Scooby snack and Wanwipa's personal concoction. One had Midori and the other had blue curacao.
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Day 14: Sea Day BrunchHuevos rancheros. Good! I really wish we would have tried this earlier! This was our last sea day brunch and it wasn't an option on the regular vegan breakfast menus.
Spicy chickpea and quinoa hash. This was ok. Erik enjoyed it more than I did. It was somehow bland and spicy at the same time.
Spinach, mushroom, onion omelet for me with "hashbrowns". This is the point in the cruise where I think they ran out of the hashbrowns and switched over to tots. As long as I get fried potatoes I don't care what form they come in!
Guys burgersNight 14: Vegan menu!Chicken strips /sweet chili sauce & Asian slaw. This was good. Nice for something different and the sauce was pretty tasty
West Indian Pumpkin soup. Good!
Stuffed Portobello mushroom. This was better than the smaller stuffed mushrooms. I can't remember what was in the stuffing but everything went together well.
Beef lasagna. This was really good, nice that it was different from the 1st veggie lasagna. It had a lot of beyond beef though so if you aren't a fan then you might not enjoy this one.
Tequila sunriseI didn't get a pic of this one but it was good.-
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Day 13:Funghi PizzaEgg rollsNight 13: No vegan menuPortuguese kale soup. This looks like dishwater I know but it was actually really good!
Spinach, arugula, strawberry & feta salad. This was pretty good. Nice for something different salad wise.
Shrimp creole. This was good but got to be a lot. Erik did not like the vegan shrimp so we actually ended up leaving some of this one.
Indian (smoky eggplant and potato curry). This was really good. The eggplant was nice and smoky and the sauce with the potatoes was flavorful. This was probably my favorite Indian dish.
Kiss on the lips. Good! Another candy straw though.
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Day 12:Spinach, mushroom, onion omelet, avocado toast w/eggSalads for lunch. We brought some of our own dressings that we picked up at Safeway the night we were in Long Beach. Follow Your Heart Ranch for hubby and Makoto Ginger dressing for me. Overall we were happy with the variety and quality on the salad bar.
Night 12: no vegan menuSoup (vegetable w/green chiles (mostly potatoes). We didn't get a pic of this one but it was decent.Fideos secos (Spaghetti w/tomato chipotle ragu). This is still pasta but gave Erik a little variety.
Chile rellenos, rice, broccoli, carrots. This was a huge gamble. No vegan menu and I told the waiter that I did not want pasta or Indian food again. He suggested we see if they could do something with the chile rellnos from the regular menu. I was pretty worried I was going to get a ton of vegan cheese which I don't really like much. It ended up being a good gamble though! This pepper was huge and filled w/mashed potatoes and some other veggies. Sauce on the side is good, not spicy. Only complaint on this one was the carrots were basically raw.
Crème Brule. Same comment as before.
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Day 11:Breakfast sandwich, sausage, hashbrowns (Erik)Spinach, mushroom, onion omelet, hashbrowns, sausage
Fungi pizza w/vegan cheese and accidental GF crust (gf crust not great, sweet)SaladNight 11: No vegan menuBroccoli cheese soup. Literally pureed broccoli. Not amazing texture or taste wise. Bland and chunky.
Spaghetti w/meatballs
Indian (dal & something spicy).
Peach margarita again! Yum!
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Day 10: Port Day - HiloBreakfast sandwich, sausage, hashbrownsAdded avocado toast for Erik (stopped taking breakfast pics for the same items)Guys burgers veggie burger & fries. We don't actually have a picture of the Guy's version of this but as I said at the beginning it was much better than getting it at the deli. There is something funny about their pickles though. Way too acidic and I love acid (not that kind!). When mixed with the mustard it made everything very sour.Night 10: no vegan menu tonightStuffed mushrooms. These look pretty weird but actually tasted good! The green sauce was a little on the bland side but a little salt and pepper improved it.
Poblano corn soup. We were thinking this would be the same or similar to the corn poblano soup earlier in the cruise but this ended up being the poor cousin of that one. This tasted heavily of poblano but was also on the bland side.
Chicken strips, mashed potatoes, broccoli. Same as the other night. It was not on the regular menu but I asked and they were able to do it this time.
Spaghetti w/meatballs (again! And no he is not tired of pasta yet)Lemon drop Martini. Really good!
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Day 9: Port Day - KonaBreakfast sandwich, sausage, hashbrowns (second verse same as the first!)Journey Cafe: This place was amazing! Everything we had was amazing and we would go back to Kona just to eat here!
Attached vegan ice cream store next door. We were too full to try anything and had a snorkeling excursion so didn't want to be uncomfortable.
Tomato soup. This was honestly the best tomato soup either of us have ever had, vegan or not! I actually had a dream about this soup!
Foccacia. Also completely amazing! Perfect amount of crust to softness.
Rainbow falafel. This was a "sandwich" but it was so full of goodies that there was no way you could pick it up to eat it! We ate it with knife and fork and each bite we found a new tasty goodie!
Garlic knots w /ricotta. These were great! The sauce was listed as a ricotta but we thought it was more like a ranch kind of dig. It is hard to see but there are some little crumbles mixed in that were very flavorful!
Night 9: No vegan menu for tonightPumpkin soup. Pretty good. I didn't think I would like it but was pleasantly surprised.
Salad
Indian (potato butter chicken, dal). This was good. I enjoyed the potato butter "chicken". Had some spice to it more than a lot of the nights.
Erik got pasta with marinara again!Pina colada w/Blue curacao float, lime candy straw. Drink was good. Candy straws are terrible and slimy.
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Day 8: Port Day - KauaiBreakfast sandwich, sausage, hashbrownsGuys veggie burger (fried, much better than grill), friesBlue Iguana burritoNight 8: Second Elegant Night
Tuna crudo. This was decent. There was not very much of the "tuna" but what was there was good and the other things complimented it nicely. This was the prettiest dish we got one the ship.
Moroccan lentil soup. Good. A little more tomato heavy than I was expecting.
Garlic shrimp, crab cakes, potatoes, broccoli. The shrimp were ok, potatoes and broccoli were pretty plain but fine. Now the crab cake….yikes! Super fishy! It actually smelled like fish food. We did not eat this.
Grilled tofu steak w/ BBQ sauce, hassleback potatoes. This was pretty good. The sauce on the tofu was good. Potato was kind of weird. Like a boiled hassleback vs roasted.
Blue drink. Haha! Neither of us can remmeber what this was.
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Day 7: Port day - HonoluluBreakfast sandwich, sausage, hashbrowns
Blondies:This place came highly recommended and did not disappoint! They do close at 3pm though since they are in a residential building it is apparently some kind of rule.Tacos w/avocado & lime crema. Super yummy! The avocado lime crema really added nicely!
Hamburger w/smoked cheddar. This was amazing! The smoked cheddar sauce was so good!
Samoa bar. Wow!! My husband does not like coconut but even he loved this! Really tasted like a girl scout Samoa cookie but better!
Night 7:
Salad
Linguini carbonara. Ok, this was the worst meal of the trip. We jokingly started calling it "birthday cake pasta". It was way too sweet! I don't think Erik finished this which is pretty unusual.
Chicken strips, mashed potatoes, broccoli. This was plain but honestly really good. The chick'n strips seemed like Gardein maybe? I ended up asking for this another night when there wasn't a vegan menu and was able to get it.
Sex on the beach
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Day 6: Port day (Maui)Breakfast sandwich, avocado toast, hasbrowns. I ordered avocado toast and my husband ordered the breakfast sandwich but they gave us both everything. I ended up scraping the avocado off my toast and putting it on my sandwich which was good.
Sausage
Mama Arepa in Maui. This was not our favorite port lunch but it was good. The portions were huge! Yes, more mushrooms! I think it was after this day we did a couple day mushroom detox. 😉Hongo (mushroom) arepa
Vegan hongo sandwich (plantain "bread")
Yuca fries
Night 6: no vegan menu this nightCorn & poblano soup. This was super good!
Meatballs & polenta. Also very good! Wish there had been a little more of the red sauce but would still recommend it.
Indian (eggplant & corn)
Peach mojito
Mango Panna cotta. Still unimpressed.
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Day 5: Sea Day Brunch menuBreakfast bowl. Interesting…..basically a salad with scrambled vegan eggs. No dressings or anything on the "salad". I think because the normal breakfast bowl has an over easy egg which would then serve as the sauce or dressing for the salad. It was fine but I did not get it again.
Avocado toast w/egg. This was good and we ended up getting this a lot of mornings also. Specify with egg when you order the night before though or you just get avocado toast. Loved the hashbrowns! Though I think they ran out about halfway through the cruise and switched over to tater tots in the MDR and weird roasted potatoes in the buffet.
Mistake pizza! Fungi pizza 1/2 w/vegan cheese no sauce. We both enjoyed this mistake and ordered it again! I liked the side with no vegan cheese. Kind of like garlic bread with mushrooms. 🙂
Night 5: We did have the vegan menu to order off of for this night. We just didn't think to take pictures every night.Cauliflower soup. Ok, weird texture and kind of bland. I ate mine and my husbands.
Salad
Mushrooms w/spinach. We thought it was going to be more like stuffed mushrooms but was more a salad with mushrooms. We ate a lot of mushrooms this day. 😄
Roasted Cauliflower w/romanesco. This was super good! Especially the sauce and the black bean puree!
Spicy pineapple martini. Yummy!
Sorbet (lime)
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Day 4:Different breakfast sandwich than the day before w/tomatoes & Cucumber. Kind of strange but still good. We never received this one again when asking for the breakfast sandwich.Fries
Blue Iguana burrito. Good, kind of like plain Chipotle which was fine. It is nice to have the option of here, Pizza Pirate and Guys because aside from salad there was basically nothing on lunch buffet that we could eat most days. We got more than enough food at breakfast and dinner that it didn't really matter, lunch was more of a snack.
Night 4: No vegan menu for this night, we ordered of the standard the night before.Some kind of vegetable soup. I didn't remember what it was by the time we got to dinner. It was good. We both got this and salad. We would order different appetizers but most nights our waiter would bring both of us both options. I don't eat heavily at home so most nights Erik would end up eating all of his entrée and then finishing half of mine (he doesn't like to waste food).
Salad
Spaghetti & meatballs (again!)
Indian (2 portions of dal). This was my least favorite Indian food we had on the cruise.
Midori sour. Good! Been a bit since I had one.
Vegan Panna cotta (lemon?). Again too sweet and weird texture. The only dessert I enjoyed was the first night.
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Day 3: This was a Sea Day Brunch dayBiscuits & gravy. Not good, would not recommend. The biscuits were very dry and no idea why they put cheese on them. No words to describe the "gravy".
Eggs Benedict. Again would not recommend. It was also extremely dry and the vegan ham had a strange texture.
Veggie omelet. This was pretty good and we would get it several more times. The picture is of it open so you can see what is inside. Just grilled veggies and vegan cheese.
Night 3: 1st elegant night. We did have the vegan menu for this night I think?? We didn't take a picture though.Alchemy pre-dinner
Martini Seduction. This was pretty good but we both liked mine (Perfect Storm) better.
Perfect Storm. This was super good! We got it again later in the cruise, a different bartender made it and it wasn't quite as good.
Shrimp cocktail. We did not enjoy the vegan shrimp "raw". Though I will say look wise they are quite impressive! The cocktail sauce was good. I powered through them but didn't get them again.
Egg rolls. Yes!! Soo good! We found them in the buffet also once or twice during lunch.
Fettuccine. Erik really enjoyed this. It was kind of a ratatouille style pasta.
Roasted veggie lasagna. This was very good. I would have gotten it again if it had been an option.
Peach Margarita. Very good!
Crème Brule. I will preface this by saying we are not dessert people. We don't really eat dessert much at home so I am a pretty harsh judge on sweets. I go with the Prue Leith philosophy that it better be worth the calories. This was not. We actually did not order dessert but our waiter got us something anyway. 🙂 I will go more into that in the summary. This was incredibly sweet and the "custard" texture was weird, more like panna cotta.
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Day 2:This is the standard vegan breakfast menu. There is also a Sea Day Brunch vegan menu that we did not get a picture of. It has some fancier items that we tried and I will share down the line. They did not do the brunch menu every sea day. I am guessing to help save the staff since the brunch goes until noon and normal breakfast only goes until 10 if I remember correctly.
Vegan breakfast sandwich (sourdough, vegan egg, vegan bacon, vegan cheese) and hashbrowns. We really liked this item and would end up getting it most days for breakfast.
Pizza pirate fungi pizza w/vegan cheese. This was good. We ended up getting a communication error pizza later in the cruise that didn't have sauce and we actually liked it better.
Night 2:
Spaghetti w/meatballs (app). Erik liked this and ended up getting several nights when they didn't have the vegan menu as an option. They actually did not overcook the pasta which was a nice surprise.
Baked potato w/cheese soup (app). This was ok, a little bland. Didn't get any cheese flavor but I don't enjoy most vegan cheese so this was fine. You can probably see in the pic that I added a decent amount of black pepper to it. Also needed salt.
Chicken drumsticks. These were super good! I wish we could have had these a few nights! The "bone" is a little piece of sugar cane. Mashed potatoes were bland but fine. Broccoli was broccoli.
Indian (Gobi Matar, daal, papadum & rice). Good but the Indian food on cruises almost always is.
Halloween drink. Can't remember the name but it was good. Our assistant waiter, Wanwipa, seemed to thoroughly enjoy picking out cocktails for us each night! 🙂
Chocolate cake. Good & light
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Day 1:Veggie burger (deli). We found out a couple days later that you can request one from Guys Burgers and they fry it in the deep fryer vs whatever kind of weird reheating method the deli does. It is much better from Guys and the fries are also significantly better than the deli.
Night 1:We went to see the maitre'd during their open hours once we boarded and were able to order dinner off of the vegan menu for the first night. We didn't take a pic of that menu though unfortunately. We did have to order the night before each day for both dinner and breakfast in the MDR.Tomato soup (app). Fine, nothing special.Szechwan shrimp (in the background was my entrée and was actually very good. We liked the "shrimp" when they were cooked much better than raw (we'll get to that in a couple days). I asked for this again later in the cruise on a night where they didn't have the vegan menu but they made me pick something from the regular menu to "veganize" instead.
Spaghetti (app). Also fine, nothing special.
Veggie wellington. This was pretty good. The crust was a little weird and we were wondering if maybe it was gluten free.
We didn't take pictures of dessert the first night but it was lime sorbet and fruit. Standard menu items.-
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A little about us…we are Erik and Tracy, mid-40's both born and raised in Colorado. We were vegetarian for 7 years and have been vegan for 8 years. This was our 7th cruise and 3rd on Carnival. We have also cruise on Royal and Celebrity. We were on the Carnival Miracle 15 day to Hawaii and back. After writing this I also now have way more respect for people who write these reviews! Man it is a lot of work! 😄Long Beach - Day before cruiseThe 4th Horseman: Interesting place! Horror themed pizza place and dive bar. We stayed at the Renaissance Long Beach near the convention center and this was in walking distance.
Vegan version of Rosemary's Baby. Good!
Garlic knots w/marinara
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We were on the Miracle 15 days to Hawaii 10/14-10/29 and are vegan. We ate in the MDR every dinner and most breakfasts. I actually have pictures of all of the food we ate and was planning to put into a review just haven't gotten around to it yet! Hopefully this weekend!
I know it is very new so we were expecting some hiccups but we were only able to order off the vegan menu 4 or 5 nights out of 15 and we always still had to order the night before. They said they did not have it the other nights and we had to try to pick off the regular menu things for them to "veganize". It seems like they maybe only have 7 nights of menus but we would have been happy just repeating those twice.
Overall we were happy with the food, a couple misses (one we are jokingly calling "birthday cake pasta" 😂) but nothing inedible. The vegan breakfast menu is really where it is at though! Huevos rancheros, breakfast sandwiches, omelets, bacon, sausage! You have to order this the night before as well and breakfast service is a little slow as they don't put your order in until you get there (vs dinner where they know when you are coming).
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We didn't receive one either from the cruise we just returned from on 10/29. A PVP reached out to my husband to give us offers on new cruises. He told her we never received it and she sent us over the link. Maybe try calling?
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They do have Red Bull now?! Last I heard it was Rockstar. DH would be thrilled if they switched and he didn't have to carry on.
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Can you fly into Long Beach instead? Much smaller airport and closer to the port.
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Hi All! I saw a link in another post for the free Passport shuttle (https://ridelbt.com/passport/) around Long Beach. It looks like it would be an easy free way to get from the Renaissance Long Beach in downtown to the port on the morning we embark. Wondering if anyone else has done this and if so how it went? The trip planner on the Passport website looks like it would take about 20 minutes and I doubt we will be in a huge hurry.
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Thanks! I appreciate the detailed response! I ended up cancelling the Crowne Plaza and rebooking the Renaissance by the convention center. Price was slightly higher but not crazy given we are only about a month out now. Thankfully I booked the original hotel with the refundable rate! I think I originally got confused as I think this is the first home port I have been to where the cruise lines dock far enough apart that it makes a difference. Thanks again to everyone who responded!
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Oh boo! Thanks for the info! Now to decide if it's worth moving the reservation.
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Hoping someone can help clarify which side of the port Carnival docks at? I had originally thought based on reading some on this board that it would be on the San Pedro side. I was just double checking reservations (currently have one at the Crowne Plaza) and directions and when I googled it comes up with the Carnival terminal being on the other side by the Queen Mary. If this is the case I might end up moving our hotel reservation to the Long Beach side. We are on the Carnival Miracle leaving 10/14/23 if that makes any difference.
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