Cruise Question Of the Day

[jacketwatch]

I did last yr. as we were going to be in several different countries in Eurpoe. Later this month we'll be in the Caribbean and I probably will tell them just to be safe.

[hazelson]

Sure do - AMEX gets really edgy if you don't LOL

[JoeyandDavid]

Todays Question:

At dinner Do you occasionally try and order things for that aren't on the menu that night?

[TheSkipper]

Sure have, and it works within reason.

[JoeyandDavid]

Sure have, and it works within reason.

it's amazing what the words please and thank you will accomplish ..isnt it..

[DebbieandJerry]

Joey, I was just thinking on these lines this morning.

I have multiple food allergies. I have learned to write down what I can eat (rather than what I cannot eat). I have learned to question everything. On the first day of any cruise, I present my list to the matre d and our head waiter. I make sure they understand my allergies (especially with the language "barriors").

Celebrity and Princess have gone out of their way to present me with menus (in advance) and have asked me to mark what I like and what I can eat. They have then prepared those meals for me without the things that I cannot tolerate.

Breakfast foods are very hard for me as I cannot eat any of them. Most of the time, I bring my own. I have, however, ordered steamed rice for breakfast.

Here's another thing that we have all learned. If you make a point of complimenting a certain item/ dish, whatever, and then ask for it later on in the cruise, you might just get it served. Both my husband and Marcy's husband told a Celebrity waiter that they loved the shrimp cocktail and the cocktail sauce. Every night a shrimp cocktail was waiting for them, without ever having to order it.

So, yes, you are correct. A please, thank you, smile, occasional joke all go a long way.

[TheSkipper]

Joey, you are so right!!

BTW a nautical mile is 1.15 land miles or 6,080 feet which equals 1,852 meters. And still I could not win at Trivia aboard the Quest.

[zebra]

Yes on both Princess and Celebrity I have asked for items not on the menu .... ask and you shall receive.

[MarcyandJames]

I do now, after a little misshap in St. Thomas. I was buying a diamond tennis bracelet that was expensive and was not going to tell my mother. She received a call from my credit card company and informed her of the large purchase, to make sure my card was not being used by someone else. She told them that I was vacationing In St. Thomas. When I got home I had to tell her.

[kmills]

We have not order anything outside of what is on the menu.