John Bodenhamer asks: We just got back from our cruise on Carnival Liberty. It was our sixth cruise

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Donna Raymond Amongst a few positives of our recent Carnival Liberty cruise was the lack of choice at breakfast which was a deal breaker for us coming hotel rwanda back to Carnival. It seems that Carnival created some decent lunchtime choices but has not done the same with breakfast. I suggest you look at what others hotel rwanda offer and then perhaps hotel rwanda you will improve. This was the one disappointment of the cruise.
So, breakfast. Recently on Facebook we spoke about bacon and how it is indeed distributed by our service staff on Lido. However, I have never ever thought that our choices were not enough so this comment from Donna took me by surprise. Now, I have heard suggestions before that we add more Southern specialties to the ships sailing out of Charleston, including sausage and gravy and things like biscuits and chitterlings but, overall, I think we have an excellent choice on Lido. In fact, let's have a look at some of what we serve, shall we? Eggs to order Eggs Benedict Salmon Benedict Scrambled Eggs Omelets hotel rwanda to order Boiled Eggs Grilled tomatoes Grilled Mushrooms Sausage Combo Yak Sausage Sautéed Breakfast Potato hotel rwanda Bacon Baked Beans Oatmeal hotel rwanda Grits Assorted Yogurt Assorted Milk Whole fruits Honeydew melon Cantaloupe Grapefruit Bagels Wheat Bread White Bread Rye Bread Gluten Free Bread Apple Cornets Crown Vanilla Cinnamon Swirls Raspberry Croissants Chocolate Croissants Banana Bread Chocolate Chip Bread Banana Nut Cake Cream Cheese Assorted Cereals Swiss Cheese Cheddar hotel rwanda Chasse Sliced Ham Sliced Turkey
And some of the ships have the addition of the Punchliner Comedy Brunch menu which I know many of you have raved about. So there you go, looks good, doesn t it, and certainly a more than adequate choice. Now I have to ask you, what s your favourite meal of the day? Mine well it is without doubt .. breakfast. I love breakfast because you really don't have to make an effort, use a napkin, decide which of the 200 knives and forks to use and best of all ..you don't have to get dressed. You can have it in bed, at a table while reading hotel rwanda a newspaper standing up if you are in a hurry. You can have it in silence, watch the news or enjoy a family breakfast in your pajamas. On the ship, you can order room service and have it on your balcony, naked if you wish. You can go to Lido and sit inside or outside and eat a huge plate of eggs, bacon, sausage and lashings hotel rwanda of pancakes and pastries all washed down with a huge bucket of grits. You don t have to dress and you don't have to look good and you don't have to cook and you don't have to wash the dishes. You just eat, munch, slurp and enjoy while discussing what to do on this fun day at sea. It is the perfect start of the day.
I love breakfast. When I am home, Heidi makes me eat a healthy breakfast which usually consists of a boiled egg and wheat toast and a bowl of Muesli. I love breakfast, I don t love sodding Muesli. It is good for you, I am told. Now, maybe it is healthier than eating eggs and bacon each morning but have a look at a box of Muesli……..go on……….just for me………look at the very small print on the side of the box and you will see a warning that tells you that eating Muesli may cause excessive gas and abnormal stool production. This, I can tell you, is absolutely true because after eating a box of Muesli, I always deposit a large snake in the toilet. Muesli is health food. Well, if you ask anyone who is standing within 20 feet of me after I have eaten a box if they think it's healthy……….my guess is .unmmmm…..no.
Occasionally, hotel rwanda I am naughty and have what we Brits call a Full English Breakfast which consists of bacon proper thick bacon sliced from Pete the Pigs thigh, not the thin weedy crispy stuff that like most land based restaurants in North America serve. And as for turkey bacon ..well I would rather eat a slice of Calvin's thigh than that! In an English breakfast, the bacon and eggs are accompanied hotel rwanda by huge pork sausages, or bangers as we call, them and they fight for a place on the plate with baked beans and fried bread. I am, as I write this, dribbling on myself.
Think about this though. Breakfast is the only meal where you can eat the same thing every day for the rest of your life and not really hotel rwanda complain well, most people can, anyway. Do you really want something that you're not familiar with? When you are in a hotel in any country in the world, while you may experiment at lunch with some barbecued peacock and at dinner try the deep fried bison, at breakfast, wherever you are, you look for eggs, bread, hotel rwanda butter, jam and cereal right?
So, thank you, Donna Ray, and I do hope you had a wonderful cruise and I ask you and all my readers now to tell me simply what we are missing from our breakfast selections hotel rwanda because I have been sitting here in my underpants and honestly ..I can t think of anything, can you?
Jeremy Childers asks: We are thinking about going on a cruise with another couple – maybe sharing a room. What are the sleeping arrangements for that? I was just kind of wondering if you would suggest sharing or getting separate rooms.
That s not an easy one to answer but let me try and give you a couple of options. First of all, I guess the most important thing is how friendly you are with the other couple. You see, while the cabins are roomy and some of the biggest in the industry, with four adults in there it may become small very quickly and the bathroom issue maybe something you should consider as well. Now the Dream-class ships have cabins with two bathrooms. These have a half bath, a sink and overhead shower in one and a sink, shower hotel rwanda cubicle and toilet in the other. We also have ships with adjoining cabins, meaning you can have a connecting door between and this may be the way to go. I hope this helps and if you have a follow up, please let me know.
While we won t mention you on the stage to 1,500 guests, you will get posted hotel rwanda on my Facebook page which has a stage of 32,500 readers. So I wish you good luck and hope to see your photo there soon. Have a brilliant cruise.
Booked hotel rwanda the Carnival Triumph for March 2 in Oct. and since have tried to do as much research as possible to make this a brilliant cruise for my wife and me. In all my searches, there is one thread hotel rwanda that seems unanimous hotel rwanda and seems to get no reaction from Carnival.
hotel rwanda The two most complained about aspects 1. Style .this is a Caribbean cruise not a rave .I m all for mixing it up and I understand hotel rwanda the band is gone but a wave file from a DJ can be anything. Especially when greeting and leaving port. Reinforce the Caribbean experience .
2. Decibels? I am a professional in the audio and video industries and mixing sound is without a doubt a profession however, the levels I have witnessed on the Lido in videos is over the top. The music in this setting hotel rwanda is an additive to the experience .not the experience. It s not a concert, it should accentuate, not dominate.
Thanks for taking the time to write and I have read similar comments on this page and on my Facebook page in recent hotel rwanda days. We now have a new manager of music and while I know we won't see the return of the steel drum bands which are too one dimensional, I think that one day we will look at adding more live music to our Lido deck, so let's see what the future holds. You will see a big difference in the volume in all our locations as this is already being monitored and controlled much more than in days gone past. Thanks, then, and I will keep you informed as to what is happening.
John Bodenhamer hotel rwanda asks: We just got back from our cruise on Carnival Liberty. It was our sixth cruise and it was the best one to date. The wait staff we had in the Silver dining room early seating hotel rwanda was excellent, Head Waiter Nicholas Timola, Team Waiter Venancio and Assistant Waitress Olivera (not sure of her last name) went out of their way to make our dinner time a great experience. Out of all the cruises we ve been on this team was the best we ve ever had serve us. There was another person whom we need to mention her name is Maria Zolezzi she is a bar waitress. Our son is mentally handicapped and just fell in love with her. She took time to make him feel special by dancing with him when the show started in the dining room and just talking to him. She is a very special person. hotel rwanda This was his best cruise ever. We have only cruised with Carnival and have converted another couple hotel rwanda to cruise on Carnival instead of RC.
What a brilliant review and it is one I will take great joy in sending to the ship. Thanks so much for taking the time to write and those crew who you mentioned will be so thrilled to see just what a difference they made to your cruise. I thank you also for introducing others to this great cruise line and if there is ever anything I can do for you, please let me know.
Morris Richman asks: I cannot begin to tell you of my anger at finding you will not have a rabbi for Hanukah for our cruise on the Valor. Last year we cruised on the Eurodam and the year before the Independence of the Seas ships and they both had rabbis for Hanukah. I called Carnival and spoke to someone who curtly told me there would not be a rabbi provided hotel rwanda for Jewish guests. I suggest this be dealt with quickly as there will no doubt be many angry passengers who, just like me, will vent their anger and this lack of respect.
I apologise for the very late reply and I know the cruise has come and gone now but, nonetheless, I wanted to apologise and also explain. While we did, as no doubt you saw, have a Menorah lighting ceremony each night during Hanukah, we do not have rabbis sail on the vessel. In fact we don t have any permanent religious program where priests, ministers and, indeed, rabbis sail and these include the important holiday times I am afraid. This may upset some but it is the current policy. I do hope you had a wonde