We are 8 Canadians from Grand Bend, Ontario , joining in Capetown for the last 30 days to Barcelona. I do not like Montaudon so was pleasantly surprised to see it was replaced by Cattier. Here in Naples, Florida , where we spend the winter , Montaudon retails for about $35.00 at Total Wine, and Cattier is $70.00 . Cattier is also the give away on Celebrity cruises with the Premium Package. It used to be Montaudon but they have seriously upgraded. It is indeed hard to believe that Celebrity would be giving away better bubbles than Seabourn.
One memeber of our party drinks Mapmaker , a Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. Last March on the Odyssey it was readily available. Please check on that and make a photocopy of the Seabourn Complimentary Selections, always available , and post it. If Mapmaker is not on it , we would appreciate it if you could talk with the chief of Food and Beverages , and see if lots of it can be included in the Capetown reprovisioning of the ship. As for foil gras being served once in 2 months that is ridiculous . It should be available daily as with the caviar. There are obviously financial worries with Carnival. We were just on a Regal Princess cruise for Valentines Day and
the ship had not been reprovisioned for 2 cruises .They ran out of Grand Mariner the first night, most scot the second day, then all cognacs the third day, then Southern Comfort, then Canadian Club . The crew are now only paid monthly instead of weekly beginning February 1 st. 400 to 500 passengers got a free cruise to gamble. There are no longer chocolates on your pillow, no wine glasses in the cabin. All pasties were almost inedible , but the bread and rolls were excellent. A lobster tail is $19.95 extra. You couldn’t take your unfinished wine glass from the bar to the dining room , so they poured into a paper cup for you. I guess they thought thatcher would steal the glass. It just went in and on. Never again on Princess. We have good friends on the full Island Princess World Cruise . They are calling it the S.S.Walmart! Say that nothing special ever happens on their cruise. Poor wine selection on the package . Enough said.
