@@charlesrabb5568 We enjoyed our dinner every night! There was always something we liked, esp loved the seafood dishes. Glad to know they still have some of your favorites. Hope you will cruise with Princess soon😊 Thanks for watching!
You are most welcome😊We loved the overall food choices on Caribbean Princess. Have a wonderful cruise and hope you enjoy the dining experience as well!
Thank you very much for your nice comments😀 We visited 6 beautiful ports of call. 3 ports in eastern Canada - Halifax, Novia Scotia, Sydney, Novia Scotia and St John's Newfoundland. 3 ports in Greenland - Nuuk, Qaqortoq and Nanortalik. Thanks for watching!
we've just come back from a princess cruise and the food is ordinary at best and very hit and miss. It's pretty much the standard of P&O at it's worst. The food in the buffet is better than the dining room food at times. Pastries are dry, cakes soggy and unappetising. They looked so bad we didn't even bother after the first try. Coffee might be Lavazza but it's still disgustingly strong and bitter and the premium tea sold in the cafe for $3.50 is the exact same teabag you get in the buffet for free. Grilled steak is a couple of tiny slices sheered off the end of an obviously streamed chunk of meat, fish is dry and the gala dinner no longer offers lobster but two prawn dumplings which are actually fish balls. A real steak is $30 extra and steak with lobster is $53. I did have one dish that was amazingly good, at lunch, the beef with broccoli. Avoid fish dishes - you get a strip of dry leather. If you need lactose free milk, you'll have to bring your own as they don't supply anything but regular or skim and theres only the occasional sugar free offering and no low cholesterol options. Ice cream is watery and not worth eating. This was our first, and likely our last, Princess cruise. It's also our first post covid so I don't know how standards have changed on other lines, but we're not in a hurry to find out. Also we went to extreme measures with sanitising our cabin, washing hands, avoiding crowded areas and wearing masks, and have still come home with covid, testing positive on the very last day. Be aware there are a lot of people on board who cough and splutter and don't cover their mouths and mask wearing is less than 5% amongst guests.
Sorry to hear of your great disappointment with your cruise and hopefully your next cruise, if any, will be an enjoyable one! Wishing you a speedy recovery!🙂
About 70% of the dishes on this menu are no longer offered. Chicken wasn't an every day option, only fish and chips or a couple of tiny strips of streak or in my case, a slice of tasteless steamed beef. The strawberry smoothie soup was never offered, nor the seared scallops, but the potato soup is lovely, as were most of the soups. Don't expect those portion sizes either They were much smaller. The cheesecake no longer has a layer of cream on the top but is actually edible. There was no coconut shrimp and apart from the shrimp cocktail, no other shrimp at all apart from a raw collection that was mainly raw squid. The pork schnitzel, although thin, was very large and quite nice, as were the potato sides. No beef satay, no scallop and prawn cocktail, and the daily pasta option was linguini alfredo plus a speciality one but don't try the gnocchi, it's the frozen, chewy variety. No lychee and watermelon, no crawfish vol au vent but there was a seafood one which you could play spot the seafood with, which wasn't very nice anyway and no crawfish on the side of it. No lychees except the half a one that the lychee raspberry desert thing gives birth to when you try and cut into it. Like I said before, no lobster at all, no seared salmon, no sesame chicken bites, my banana rum soup was pink and did not taste of rum, no grilled seafood bowl, and the peach flambe had three microscopic slivers of peaches floating in a sugary syrup. The crepe suzette was miniscule, dried up and rubbery. The carrot cake did not look like the one in the video, there was no banana chocolate and dark rum mousse, no chicken satay or cherry soup.....I could go on and on but you get the message. Don't expect very many of the dishes shown in this video or else you're going to be sadly disappointed. Ours was a 12 day cruise.
Thanks for the update on the new food menu. I am surprised with the many changes as we had just cruised a few months ago. This was our second cruise with Princess after more than 10 years. The quality of the food had been very good on both cruises. I do hope Princess maintains its good standard!
@@trueposition6329 we stepped off the boat only two days ago so at this rate it looks like its a downhill slide. Unless cruise prices increase significantly I can't see it improving. In hindsight, we'd have eaten in the buffet because the quality was much better there. We chose not to in order to reduce our risk of getting covid but that was a pretty futile as it turned out. We did notice the first day long lines to get a table in the dining room. That dropped off significantly as the cruise progressed and the dining rooms were virtually empty by the end of the cruise.
@@warpedweft9004 Sadly, covid is a risk we have to take when we get on cruise ships. Cruise ships have become more crowded post covid. Like you, we take steps to minimize our risk of getting this dreadful virus or other transmissible virus. But there are always people who are less considerate and increase our chances of getting covid. We try to go to the lunch buffet at the earliest time, even though we are not hungry in order to avoid the crowd but that may not be possible every time. Some cruise ships have lunch in the main dining room on sea days which is another option or outdoor tables during warmer cruise season.
@@trueposition6329 we were doing the same thing except going to the buffet late after everyone had gone rather than early, only using the stairs etc. Unfortunately what was supposed to be a mid summer cruise was cold and raining/foggy/windy, so even eating outside/watching movies under the stars was not possible. Bit pointless when you cant see the screen for fog/rain. There are times you can't avoid crowds like on transport to and from some of the ports. We caught late tenders, but most of the ports aren't in the city and you need to catch a train or tram in. We didn't go into museums, just botanic gardens and open air markets. Then again there are queues to get back on the ship which are unpredictable. Any one of those things could have been where we picked covid up. Sadly we both feel like we can't face another cruise, partly because of the downward spiralling quality and partly because it was so stressful trying to avoid catching covid, which proved ultimately futile anyway. Next few vacations at least, will be road trips.
Thank you for the video
You are most welcome and thank you for watching 😊
Great soundtrack btw❤
Thank you very much for watching and your appreciation of the music choices!😊
The food menu looks It feels delicious
The culinary team did a very good job! Food was indeed delicious 😋 Thanks for watching 😀
Food looks delicious. Glad to see some of my favorites are still on the menu.
@@charlesrabb5568 We enjoyed our dinner every night! There was always something we liked, esp loved the seafood dishes. Glad to know they still have some of your favorites. Hope you will cruise with Princess soon😊 Thanks for watching!
Thank you for making this video! We're going on a 16 day cruise next spring and I'm so looking forward to the MDR experience!
You are most welcome😊We loved the overall food choices on Caribbean Princess. Have a wonderful cruise and hope you enjoy the dining experience as well!
You did a great job capturing all delicious dishes.. it’s not easy👍. May I ask where did you go for 16 days? Thank you.
Thank you very much for your nice comments😀 We visited 6 beautiful ports of call. 3 ports in eastern Canada - Halifax, Novia Scotia, Sydney, Novia Scotia and St John's Newfoundland. 3 ports in Greenland - Nuuk, Qaqortoq and Nanortalik. Thanks for watching!
Love this video, but go slower over the menu, please.
Thank you very much for liking our video! Will try to move at a slower pace next time. Definitely needs more practice to take videos of menu😄
we've just come back from a princess cruise and the food is ordinary at best and very hit and miss. It's pretty much the standard of P&O at it's worst. The food in the buffet is better than the dining room food at times. Pastries are dry, cakes soggy and unappetising. They looked so bad we didn't even bother after the first try. Coffee might be Lavazza but it's still disgustingly strong and bitter and the premium tea sold in the cafe for $3.50 is the exact same teabag you get in the buffet for free. Grilled steak is a couple of tiny slices sheered off the end of an obviously streamed chunk of meat, fish is dry and the gala dinner no longer offers lobster but two prawn dumplings which are actually fish balls. A real steak is $30 extra and steak with lobster is $53. I did have one dish that was amazingly good, at lunch, the beef with broccoli. Avoid fish dishes - you get a strip of dry leather. If you need lactose free milk, you'll have to bring your own as they don't supply anything but regular or skim and theres only the occasional sugar free offering and no low cholesterol options. Ice cream is watery and not worth eating.
This was our first, and likely our last, Princess cruise. It's also our first post covid so I don't know how standards have changed on other lines, but we're not in a hurry to find out. Also we went to extreme measures with sanitising our cabin, washing hands, avoiding crowded areas and wearing masks, and have still come home with covid, testing positive on the very last day. Be aware there are a lot of people on board who cough and splutter and don't cover their mouths and mask wearing is less than 5% amongst guests.
Sorry to hear of your great disappointment with your cruise and hopefully your next cruise, if any, will be an enjoyable one! Wishing you a speedy recovery!🙂
You should just stay home!
About 70% of the dishes on this menu are no longer offered. Chicken wasn't an every day option, only fish and chips or a couple of tiny strips of streak or in my case, a slice of tasteless steamed beef. The strawberry smoothie soup was never offered, nor the seared scallops, but the potato soup is lovely, as were most of the soups. Don't expect those portion sizes either They were much smaller. The cheesecake no longer has a layer of cream on the top but is actually edible. There was no coconut shrimp and apart from the shrimp cocktail, no other shrimp at all apart from a raw collection that was mainly raw squid. The pork schnitzel, although thin, was very large and quite nice, as were the potato sides. No beef satay, no scallop and prawn cocktail, and the daily pasta option was linguini alfredo plus a speciality one but don't try the gnocchi, it's the frozen, chewy variety. No lychee and watermelon, no crawfish vol au vent but there was a seafood one which you could play spot the seafood with, which wasn't very nice anyway and no crawfish on the side of it. No lychees except the half a one that the lychee raspberry desert thing gives birth to when you try and cut into it. Like I said before, no lobster at all, no seared salmon, no sesame chicken bites, my banana rum soup was pink and did not taste of rum, no grilled seafood bowl, and the peach flambe had three microscopic slivers of peaches floating in a sugary syrup. The crepe suzette was miniscule, dried up and rubbery. The carrot cake did not look like the one in the video, there was no banana chocolate and dark rum mousse, no chicken satay or cherry soup.....I could go on and on but you get the message. Don't expect very many of the dishes shown in this video or else you're going to be sadly disappointed. Ours was a 12 day cruise.
Thanks for the update on the new food menu. I am surprised with the many changes as we had just cruised a few months ago. This was our second cruise with Princess after more than 10 years. The quality of the food had been very good on both cruises. I do hope Princess maintains its good standard!
@@trueposition6329 we stepped off the boat only two days ago so at this rate it looks like its a downhill slide. Unless cruise prices increase significantly I can't see it improving. In hindsight, we'd have eaten in the buffet because the quality was much better there. We chose not to in order to reduce our risk of getting covid but that was a pretty futile as it turned out. We did notice the first day long lines to get a table in the dining room. That dropped off significantly as the cruise progressed and the dining rooms were virtually empty by the end of the cruise.
@@warpedweft9004 Sadly, covid is a risk we have to take when we get on cruise ships. Cruise ships have become more crowded post covid. Like you, we take steps to minimize our risk of getting this dreadful virus or other transmissible virus. But there are always people who are less considerate and increase our chances of getting covid. We try to go to the lunch buffet at the earliest time, even though we are not hungry in order to avoid the crowd but that may not be possible every time. Some cruise ships have lunch in the main dining room on sea days which is another option or outdoor tables during warmer cruise season.
@@trueposition6329 we were doing the same thing except going to the buffet late after everyone had gone rather than early, only using the stairs etc. Unfortunately what was supposed to be a mid summer cruise was cold and raining/foggy/windy, so even eating outside/watching movies under the stars was not possible. Bit pointless when you cant see the screen for fog/rain.
There are times you can't avoid crowds like on transport to and from some of the ports. We caught late tenders, but most of the ports aren't in the city and you need to catch a train or tram in. We didn't go into museums, just botanic gardens and open air markets. Then again there are queues to get back on the ship which are unpredictable. Any one of those things could have been where we picked covid up. Sadly we both feel like we can't face another cruise, partly because of the downward spiralling quality and partly because it was so stressful trying to avoid catching covid, which proved ultimately futile anyway. Next few vacations at least, will be road trips.