Disclaimer, we do sailings on X, other cruise lines like carnival, one week in an AI in Mexico and weekend getaways in non-AI hotels/AirBnBs. We have never sailed on VV or RCI and plan to do one or both this year and probably wouldn't have if X met our food expectations
Speaking of food, 95% of the complaints are food related and like it or not, complaining works as X did increase the dinner buffet selections. We were told on the Solstice this past Feb that Ribeye and Prime rib were gone from fleet; while we're sure it wasn't on the menu on that sailing, we weren't sure if it was fleetwide so am not sure if they brought that back but did have it in March. Therefore, the only way to manage our expectations on X, is to expect that our next sailing will have more cut backs than our last sailing and that's sad
Some of us, myself included, got excited to hear there's a new CEO which gave us a sliver of hope they could possibly improve the food quality but now with the cake cut backs, sounds like it will be the status quo. Have been on 14 sailing since the restart, we have not seen a single improvement to the food quality
Enjoyed your write up and do not consider you a cheerleader if for no other reason than mentioning the price is a factor. Thanks to the cutbacks, I may have a somewhat negative view but I do respect peoples constructive opinions. The comments I don't respect are from the actual cheerleaders who say something like "the foods great, quit being picky, its your fault you can't find anything you like"