erin78

I'm sorry to hear this - I dislike Beyond meat too. Thanks for the update.

Sauce and veggies. Maybe it would be a little messier to eat, I don't know. But since the pizzas are cooked to order, asking to have the cheese left off should be possible. If you're making it at home, there are vegan "cheeses" but I can't vouch for any personally.

We were on the Nieuw Statendam for a week this past spring. I'm a vegetarian (but I eat dairy) and I have an allergy. We typically ate dinner and breakfast in Club Orange. There was a separate vegetarian menu with items I could order anytime during the week, but I had to insist a little before staff admitted it existed. (Initially I was told to just order from the main menu.) I made the mistake of giving it back the first time I had it, without taking pictures. There was also typically one vegetarian option per category on the main menu. It changed daily. I ordered dinner the night before. I was allowed to see the next day's menu in case I wanted something from it, otherwise I ordered something on the vegetarian menu. After the first night, that worked well. There was a vegetarian soup and a vegetarian entree in the Pinnacle Grill and I enjoyed both.The soup had dairy, not sure about the entree. I didn't find the buffet to be as convenient, because it wasn't always clear to me what (if anything) would be available that I could eat before standing in line at a particular station. I did get "New York" pizza a few times, which I enjoyed, and I would guess they could probably make one without cheese.

Have a wonderful time! I will be following this with a lot of interest, because we are booked on the Independence for August 8th (with 10- and 12-year-old kids).

We spent a couple days post-cruise in Rome in May, and needed to get tests to fly home. We weren't able to use our virtually-proctored tests with the hotel internet; we tried several times and the calls kept dropping. Fortunately, we were able to locate a pharmacy that was open until 7pm and could do rapid tests with printed results.