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Someone had mentioned that you can order as many plates of whatever is offered as you want. This is a secret cruising tip according to them. Any truth to this? I have a hard time believing I can order like 3 lobster tails.....

It is absolutely true. Went with a group of 43 for my first cruise and one member ordered one of every entrée every night.

I order multiple lobster tails every time.

It is true. One can be as gluttonous as they want.

Someone had mentioned that you can order as many plates of whatever is offered as you want. This is a secret cruising tip according to them. Any truth to this? I have a hard time believing I can order like 3 lobster tails.....

My husband and I ALWAYS get extra lobster. And last time he ordered two lobsters AND spaghetti carbonara. It's a cruise perk! ;)

It is definitely true. This was actually the point my friend and I used to convince her husband to go on our cruise in January. :)

it is absolutely true. i'm always surprised everyone doesn't know this :)

It is really true. I ordered 4 shrimp cocktails as appetizers and flat iron steak and chicken breast as my entrees. And 2 deserts. No problem whatsoever.

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On a previous cruise, we shared a table with three other couples. After dinner, when the waiter came to take our dessert orders, no one could decide on which dessert each of us wanted. No problem! He brought one of everything, and split it up eight ways. That way, we each got to sample all of the desserts. In a way, it reminded me of Thanksgiving dinner. Everybody was stuffed!:)

Order as you please but wait staff would prefer you order it all together. Great waiters bring up a couple extra lobster tails without anyone ordering.

Someone had mentioned that you can order as many plates of whatever is offered as you want. This is a secret cruising tip according to them. Any truth to this? I have a hard time believing I can order like 3 lobster tails.....

Its true. We had a dude order over 9 lobster tails next to us lol. I was embarrassed for him. He was a HUGE dude so I wasnt surprised he could put that many away and still have room for 4 melting cakes.

Yes order everything you want at the beginning. That way the food will keep coming all meal. No delays. Except desserts.

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Its true. We had a dude order over 9 lobster tails next to us lol. I was embarrassed for him. He was a HUGE dude so I wasnt surprised he could put that many away and still have room for 4 melting cakes.

Holy Cow!:eek:

It's 100% true. You can stuff yourself like a pig.

And then come here and complain about how bad it was.

Very true! We rarely order more than one entree but it is completely acceptable. I do order more than one appetizer at times or more than one dessert!

Someone had mentioned that you can order as many plates of whatever is offered as you want. This is a secret cruising tip according to them. Any truth to this? I have a hard time believing I can order like 3 lobster tails.....

It is true. So you can order something new and adventurous or you know you will like so you have a backup.

And it's not a secret. It's well known you can do that. :)

Someone had mentioned that you can order as many plates of whatever is offered as you want. This is a secret cruising tip according to them. Any truth to this? I have a hard time believing I can order like 3 lobster tails.....

It's not a secret anymore. The waiters themselves suggest bringing extra dishes. Once my wife couldn't stomach a particular dish she tried and our attentive waitress noticed it (bless her), recommended an alternative and replaced the dish.

Lobster night, the chefs, waiters and indeed all of Carnival knows that guests will order more.

Only one caveat though; no matter how many you request, they will bring individual plates. Meaning each plate has two tails (IIRC) and you can only order in multiples of the plates, not individual servings.

The chefs are instructed to prepare each dish according to the master chef's layout and they don't deviate from that.

Now, I don't know what they would do if you order 9!

The most I have tried is 2 plates.

I would order 2 appetizers & 2 entrees most nights. Some entrees are not that big (serving size) or filing.

When I ordered the 4 shrimp cocktails, they came on 4 individual plates. Finish one, waiter brought another an so on. Love the food in the MDR!!

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Yeah-- you wont get them all at once.

But it makes it easier for the runner to get all your portions at the same time

But be aware that when you order an entree-- you get whatever it comes with- so ordering 3 lobster you get the shrimp that comes with it

Yup, just as long as it's on the menu.

During our first cruise, 3-day to Nassau on the Mardi Gras, there was a man a couple of tables over who ordered lobster. There was no lobster on the menu. Not that night, not any night on that particular cruise. But, he WANTED LOBSTER, at the top of his lungs. According to him he could have anything he wanted. He had been told this by his TA and, dammit, HE WANTED LOBSTER!

Now, that he and his wife appeared to be straight out of central casting for an 80's mobster movie made it really pretty funny, except, of course, for his abuse of the entire staff over the lack of his being able to have lobster at will. (we were subsequently extremely nice to our shared wait staff, basically apologizing for the behavior of people we didn't even know..)

Not really sure what he expected. Helicopter it in just for him? Lobster traps trawling behind the ship?

One year we asked our waiter what the most lobster tails he had ever brought to a single passenger was. He said the previous month he brought SEVENTEEN lobster tails to the same passenger!

So yup, if you so desire, you can truly order as much as you could ever want, and thensome.

It's 100% true. You can stuff yourself like a pig.

 

And then come here and complain about how bad it was.

I, like that venerable groundhog in Pennsylvania, rarely appear, but I am posting in this thread because the quoted post made me chuckle.

Lots of times we order each an entree and one to split. A couple years ago we had a guy at our table who wanted three shrimp cocktails each night, and they brought him them each night.

I sat next to a guy who wanted to break his lobster record of 15, he got to 10 and quit.

Someone had mentioned that you can order as many plates of whatever is offered as you want. This is a secret cruising tip according to them. Any truth to this? I have a hard time believing I can order like 3 lobster tails.....

I have seen people boast they have had 25 lobster tails.

Last cruise I made a meal out of the starters. I had the salad, then strawberry bisque, then the mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil as the main course