jackjoyus Posted January 27, 2006 #1 Share Posted January 27, 2006 We just when on a cruise to Hawaii on the Princess Island princess. We were very disapointed in the food and also the evening entermantenf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuggers Posted January 27, 2006 #2 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Here's the answer I just posted to this same question asked on a similar thread: I was just on Sea Princess 3 weeks ago (see my thread on which I gave an onboard commentary 'Devoted X'er Goes Princess' and companrisons between the two lines) and while Princess has many nice ammenities, food is certainly not one of them! Celebrity food remains, on mainstream cruiselines, the gold standard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longboysfan Posted January 27, 2006 #3 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Yes. I would give Celebrity a plus on food and service over Princess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chorts Posted January 27, 2006 #4 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I was on the Caribbean Princess in October and as far as I'm concerned, the food didn't come anywhere close to what I had on the Zenith. As far as I was concerned, it wasn't as good as Carnival either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseQueen13 Posted January 27, 2006 #5 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Hands down....Celebrity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelmac Posted January 27, 2006 #6 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Yah, this one is not even close. Princess does many things well, but cuisine is not one of them. Celebrity's food is much better. Princess, NCL and RCCL all come up short compared to Celebrity and Holland America in the food department. No such thing as a bad cruise! Kel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGTNORMANDIE Posted January 27, 2006 #7 Share Posted January 27, 2006 HI TUG, I have had this discussion a lot lately. Princess food is mass produced and good to mediocre at best. I have been in and out of the food business all my life so I can speak from a position of knowledge. I have heard many pax say that they loved the food court on Princess. I thought that the food court food quality was nowhere near Celebrity. Maybe more choices but the quality is not there. The grades of beef were not as good as Celebrity...and more importatly the culinary technique in the finished product was often substandard. I thought that the roasting technique was really poor. It seemed like they were taking frozen meat and trying to roast it. The end result was a dried out and tasteless main course. At least that was my experience onboard the CARIBBEAN PRINCESS and the STAR PRINCESS last October. ROSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuggers Posted January 27, 2006 #8 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I really found the buffet at lunch on Sea to be quite good. The salads were fresh, there was a nice selection of cheeses and cold things which I liked and usually one or two entrees that were tasty. When they did the special dessert things they were very good. Much better than the dinner desserts! And I really liked the smoked fish buffet. All in all, I found more to eat that I liked at the P buffet than the X one. Plus I LOVED that you could get cookies, cheese and crackers, fruit, etc all night. That is especially important since I just got off the Opera where I heard people complain of actually being hungry because the serving hours for food were so limited and ended VERY early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare geoherb Posted January 27, 2006 #9 Share Posted January 27, 2006 We went on our most recent Princess cruise two years ago, Celebrity a year ago, and HAL this past Christmas. Each had areas of food that where better than the other two. On Princess, the best part is afternoon tea and the variety in availability of food in the buffet. HAL had the best buffet for breakfast, but it had poor service in the dining room at breakfast and lunch. Celebrity wins, in my opinion, with service and food in the dining room, but I did not like the food in the buffet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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