TexasJayde

we went to the blue hole on our last cruise to jamaica. we had a blast there!

unfortunately, i can't make a recommendation about this particular tour guide. but there is one that i can recommend and that is Marvyn's Paradise Tours. he does a bob marley tour i think.

well, the one food i found to be completely inedible was a mushroom vinagrette soup i found on carnival. it was a big mushroom in a sour vinegar base. just terrible. my last cruise was on norwegian jade and the food was ..... forgettable. nothing we ate in the main dining rooms was really good. we found one restaurant called shanghia gardens that had good food but that was it. the only thing we could figure is that they were encouraging people to pay more at the expensive restaurants.

I don't understand your point. I'm giving an honest opinion... I have been on many cruises now with 3 different lines, RCI, Carnival, and NCL and we have never felt like had to pay for specialty dining before on any other lines. The food wasn't ever what I would call bad with RCI or Carnival.

 

NCL food in the main dining room was pretty much inedible and we will eat anything, I like McDonalds. It was lower quality than a Kids Cuisine. I'm not sure where "Karma" needs to come into play. But if It was a lifetime experience for me I would still be appalled at the quality of the MDR food. Had a great trip otherwise! And I would have wanted the heads up to know we would be spending $400 that trip for specialty dining.

i have to agree. we cruised on ncl jade a couple of years ago and the food was just not good. whereas on nccl or carnival, you can find food just about anywhere at any time, ncl was considerably more difficult, as we don't buy the specialty dining. however, i will say this about ncl, their entertainment was topnotch.

I was also on this cruise, some good lots Bad, more ugly then I have ever seen, this was my first and last NCL cruise.

hey tugboat,

i absolutely agree. i tried very hard to cut the crew slack as i have also heard that repositioning cruises are difficult. by the time we docked, most of the passengers self-disembarked just to get OFF! but you are right, some good, lots bad and a whole lot of ugly. at times, some of the passengers were ready to mutiny out of pure aggravation. we just ignored most of it and tried to enjoy the fact that we was on a cruise. we met a lot of very nice people including tugboat and his wife and that made the cruise a lot more enjoyable.

on RCCL, if you get the drink of the day, you get a very nice glass as souvenir. does NCL have something like that?