Midnight Buffet question

[Discindy]

We are going on Independence of the Seas 7/15. The last cruise we went on was on Monarch of the Seas Millennium cruise so yes 15 years ago. My husband asked do they still have midnight buffets on cruises? We always liked viewing them with all the food sculptures.

[Cruisegirl6]

Nope been gone for years

[dplusd]

We started cruising in 2001 and remember the extravagant midnight buffets. But they have been gone for a long time, maybe 10 years or so!

[BekkaW]

I disembarked today from Radiance and they had a scaled down poolside buffet at 11pm one evening. There were several large fruit sculptures but its not as elaborate as I have heard the midnight buffets used to be. A similar poolside event was held on our Voyager cruise in 2013.

[Discindy]

Thanks everyone for your replies. When we sailed many years ago they had one every night. With butter sculptures, ice sculptures and fruit sculptures. It was almost a show to see. Then it was changed and they only had it one night during the cruise.

[Clarea]

Thanks everyone for your replies. When we sailed many years ago they had one every night. With butter sculptures, ice sculptures and fruit sculptures. It was almost a show to see. Then it was changed and they only had it one night during the cruise.

The last "real" midnight buffet we saw was a single night on Voyager in 2007. Only the occasional pool deck versions since.

[trev71]

The last midnight buffett we had was on the Liberty in 2008. It was mainly cookies and snacks (sweets) and fruits.

Edited January 20, 2015 by trev71

[lucymorgan]

The only time we have seen a midnight buffet is on a rhapsody repositioning cruise in 2011 - the day we crossed the equator I think

 

It was a chocolate feast

 

[Discindy]

Thanks Jenibor for posting pictures. It brings back great memories I had cruising with my parents. Who are no longer with me. We enjoyed seeing all the sculpture's each night!

[John&LaLa]

Sometimes the ships with promenades have something like that in the afternoon.

[reallyhooked]

Thanks everyone for your replies. When we sailed many years ago they had one every night. With butter sculptures, ice sculptures and fruit sculptures. It was almost a show to see. Then it was changed and they only had it one night during the cruise.

 

I remember those midnight buffets. I use to wake DH up to go. As time went on we would just go & look, take pictures and leave. gone just like the mints on the pillows.

[Discindy]

Oh no, no more chocolates on the pillow! It's been 15 years since our last cruise. I remember my brothers always crawled into bed after having a few too many drinks and woke up covered in chocolate on their faces.

[Cel_cruise]

Oh no, no more chocolates on the pillow! It's been 15 years since our last cruise. I remember my brothers always crawled into bed after having a few too many drinks and woke up covered in chocolate on their faces.

 

 

Its been 9 years since our last cruise and 12 since our last RCCL cruise...,I learned about the lack of choco mint last month - I'm still sad...I also will miss the grandness of the Buffett...I never are at the but have tons and tons of photos!

 

I am thinking of bringing my own mints - do you think the cabin steward would put them out for us ??

 

 

 

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[mom3x]

I remember a midnight *Chocolate* buffet on the Rhapsody on our cruise to Alaska. And, I was too seasick to enjoy it. Sadly.

[John&LaLa]

I remember a midnight *Chocolate* buffet on the Rhapsody on our cruise to Alaska. And, I was too seasick to enjoy it. Sadly.

 

Baked Alaska on parade with sparklers

Cherries Jubillee that was actually a flambe

Pasta prepared tableside (Princess)

 

Not enough fire anymore. :o

[nelblu]

Baked Alaska on parade with sparklers

Cherries Jubillee that was actually a flambe

Pasta prepared tableside (Princess)

 

Not enough fire anymore. :o

 

All of that and more on the Home and Italian Lines. I guess I'm dating myself.

[4cats,1dog]

Last May on Radiance of the Seas to Alaska, they had a midnight dessert buffet.

We took pictures, but we were too stuffed from dinner. (Lobster night)

[Cel_cruise]

Baked Alaska on parade with sparklers

Cherries Jubillee that was actually a flambe

Pasta prepared tableside (Princess)

 

Not enough fire anymore. :o

 

 

Yes! They need to bring back the FIRE!!!

 

 

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[griffy116]

My Grandson started cruising when he was 3 years old. He would go from cabin to cabin, collecting the mints from everyone's pillows. No one had the heart to turn him down. When they stopped putting them out, I would carry a bag of them and put them on the pillow after the turn down without him knowing it. Did that for several years, even including the cabin steward on our scheme on later cruises. He's cruising with us in June and taking a friend. This time, he's excited about being able to order a bucket of beer out by the pool. He just turned 21. We've seen the midnight buffets go away and the elaborate butter, fruit and ice sculptures and the flaming Baked Alaska balanced on the waiter's head disappear, but we've also seen the ships become more and more amazing. We've have photos of him in a stroller on the cruise ship in the Caribbean at a midnight buffet, Volcano National Park in Hawaii, seeing the ruins of Pompeii and winning his first jackpot on the slot machine in the casino(only $79). He and the ships have changed a lot over the years.