Caribbean Princess Dinners

[marlinmike]

Did anyone ever post which dinners were on which nights? I know where the menus are posted, but they were necessarily in order.

[Nice Boat]

I'm curious too on the order of the themed dinners on each night of the Eastern itinerary on the Caribbean Princess.

[meyerhaus]

Marlin,
I believe if you check out the patters at my site that coorelate, you can see what night were what!

JON

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[marlinmike]

Thanks meyerhaus, but call me ignorant. I can't see where the "dinner being served" is anywhere on the Patters, nor are the menus in order, as admitted by yensid1071.

[Aquarian]

Has anybody mentioned that French night has been replaced by Caribbean night, which means to creme brulee lovers that the raspberry creme brulee is no more nor the escargot. There is pineapple creme brulee but it isn't quite as good IMHO. I'm sorry, but I don't have a good enough memory to remember which menus were for which nights and didn't get copies of the menus.

[merlin71]

Hi. There was a thread on this topic a few weeks ago that never really reached a final conclusion. One past CP cruiser said that he was pretty sure the menu order for the eastern caribbean itinerary was:

Saturday: Sailaway
Sunday (formal #1): Captain's welcome
Monday: Italian
Tuesday: Chef's
Wednesday: Caribbean
Thursday (formal #2): Captain's gala
Friday: Landfall

I believe that we are reasonably certain of the nights for landfall, sailaway, captain's welcome, and captain's gala. However, the nights for the italian, chef's, and caribbean menus are a matter of debate. For instance, I clearly remember a review in which Italian night was associated with Tuesday.

If anyone can help clarify the correct order, please help us by posting a response. Thank you.

[Rustynail]

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[droseball]

Does anyone know the order of the western carribean dinners that has sailed recently?

Denise

[marlinmike]

Bump

[jturner901]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Saturday: Sailaway
Sunday (formal #1): Captain's Welcome (sea)
Monday: Italian (sea)
Tuesday: Caribbean (St.Thomas)
Wednesday: Chef's (St. Martin)
Thursday (formal #2): Captain's Gala (sea)
Friday: Landfall<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

This was mostly correct on 5/22-5/29 and there was Escargot on the 2nd formal. I flipped the Caribbean and the Chef's dinners around.

All the best!

Jay & Karen Turner
Mount Hope, Ontario

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Statendam 10/95
Zenith 05/96
Westerdam 05/97
Norway 10/97
Westerdam 10/98
Sun Princess 10/99
Volendam 10/00
Volendam 10/01
Century 10/02
Zuiderdam 05/03
Caribbean Princess 05/04

[S.S.Oceanlover]

I have the menus listed on my website for the Eastern caribbean in order as confirmed by Wumba who just recently cruised on the CP.

Bill

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[jturner901]

Bill:

The Caribbean Dinner is St. Thomas and the Chef's Dinner is St. Martin. This is the way it was last week 5/22-5/29.

Our anniversay was May 25, St. Thomas day. We had brought a bottle of wine from home to have with dinner in the dining room. On seeing that St. Thomas was Caribbean night on board, we opted to dine in Cafe Caribe and didn't take our wine to dinner with us. We ended up bringing our bottle of wine home.

All the best!

Jay & Karen Turner
Mount Hope, Ontario

Westerdam 12/93
Statendam 10/95
Zenith 05/96
Westerdam 05/97
Norway 10/97
Westerdam 10/98
Sun Princess 10/99
Volendam 10/00
Volendam 10/01
Century 10/02
Zuiderdam 05/03
Caribbean Princess 05/04

[robotman]

Bill,

I was on the ship with Jay & Karen and they are correct.
Caribbean night was Tuesday (St. Thomas) and Chef's night was Wednesday (St. Martin).

Ken

[marlinmike]

These are all Eastern Caribbean - we're looking for the WesternCaribbean dinner schedule.

[stevewiz]

What did Cafe Caribe have for dinner on Caribbean nite in the dining room? thank you

[S.S.Oceanlover]

Jay, Karen, and Ken,

Thanks for the update. I have corrected my menus again. lol!

Jay and Karen,
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Sorry Mike I don't have the Western menus. There was another website for the Western Caribbean but haven't seen any post for awhile about it.

Bill

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[jturner901]

Bill:

Thank you very much for the greeting.

All the best!

Jay & Karen Turner
Mount Hope, Ontario

Westerdam 12/93
Statendam 10/95
Zenith 05/96
Westerdam 05/97
Norway 10/97
Westerdam 10/98
Sun Princess 10/99
Volendam 10/00
Volendam 10/01
Century 10/02
Zuiderdam 05/03
Caribbean Princess 05/04

[SANDYJABS]

Wow, what a great treat to see the menu ahead of time. Some of the food listed I have never heard of. Some of the "Cellar Master Selections" sound interesting.
Stupid question? Those are suggested for drinking with the meal and not afterwards?
Thanks again for the menus.
Sandy
Caribbean Princess in 11 DAYS!!

[marlinmike]

Bill:
They're on a Western now - I bumped it in case anyone at the Internet Cafe was monitoring. I did put in a request for the info at their Roll Call. Maybe someone will get it to us.
Mike

[gaa2]

Is there anyone who actually ate in the dining room on Caribbean night? If so, what did you think? If you had to pick one night to miss, to do alternative dining, what would you choose?

Thanks!

[robotman]

gaa2,

Yes, we did eat in the dining room on Caribbean night last week 5/25/04. But not intentionally. We thought Tuesday was the Chef's night menu according to prior info we had. But they (Princess) switched the two nights on us.
We're not big on Caribbean style cooking so we all (my wife, two teens, and myself) ordered from the alternative menu selections. I had the sirloin steak and it was not bad at all. It was quite to my liking actually (which was medium rare) with almost no fat or gristle. I'd say it was about 12 ounces, looked more like a strip steak, and was more than I could finish.
My family went for the fettucini and all three said that it was the best that they had ever tasted. They actually ordered it again later in the week and asked for some grilled shrimp or chicken to be added. Our waiter was happy to comply.
There was really nothing on the Caribbean menu that caught my eye, but maybe you, on the otherhand, would really enjoy the offerings. I'm sure some poeple did.
We missed Monday's Italian night to go to Sabatini's for Italian. Made sense to me at the time but maybe Tuesday would have been a better night to miss.

Ken

[gaa2]

Thanks Ken. We were trying to arrange for the Ultimate Balcony Dinner and will probably do it on Caribbean night. We have been on several Princess cruises and always enjoy Sabatini's, and since we find the dining room Italian food to be pretty good, we will have to find another night to miss in our traditional dining...I will have to take another look at the menus posted online. Were there any other nights where you did not care for either the menu or food in the dining room?

[AngelaC]

Aquarian,

We were just on the CP this past week and escargot was served. We had it on the second formal night.

Angela

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[bostonlass]

Are the themed dinners offered in the PC restaurants as well as the traditional ones?

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[marlinmike]

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[Cruisin' Lisa]

Bill; the website for the Western Caribbean is no longer active b/c the web master (or whatever the corect term is) is now sailing on Carnival instead of the caribbean Princess.

He Emailed me --because we were originally on the same cruise-- to tell me that he would leave the website up but no longer update it.

Lisa

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[dgebhart]

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I am envious of your cruise but also from where you live. I am in love with the Seattle area and have friends who live in Snonomish. Thanks for the info.

[SissasMomE]

I noticed on the Eastern Carribean menus - the wine selections ... Merlot is not listed. Does that mean they don't have it???

[untailored bostonian]

Go Red Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please:(! You know being a Red Sox fan it is never our year.

Maybe next year ... :o