Picnic?

Does anyone know whether it is still possible to have a picnic lunch made up to take off the ship?

Only in France, not in any country where food laws are strict.

Thanks.

Surely the purpose of going ashore in France is to partake of delicious freshly-cooked French food, accompanied by the patron's choice of local wines - not some hard-boiled eggs and ham sandwiches made at 6 o'clock in the morning? Or am I missing something?

Yes, you are missing something! We want to catch an early boat to Les Iles de Lerin from Cannes. Once on the islands there are very limited places to get food which tend to have seasonal opening so may very well be closed. If we can take food with us it will be easier.

Does anyone know whether it is still possible to have a picnic lunch made up to take off the ship?

 

Only in France, not in any country where food laws are strict.

 

Thanks.

We had Lunch Boxes to take on our day trip to Petra earlier this year (Legend). From memory it was a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a couple of biscuits and a bottle of water.

We had Lunch Boxes to take on our day trip to Petra earlier this year (Legend). From memory it was a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a couple of biscuits and a bottle of water.

Thank you. That would do nicely!

Path of the Vikings -we had a packed lunch, when we wanted to do as much sightseeing as possible.

We find the 'lunch included' on some tours not to our liking as the lunch is often far too long with a lot of 'faffing'

Sometimes we had wine ,chicken /beef salads et al in our lunch box.

Kind regards

Tony

Thanks, Tony and Trevor. We will ask on board.

Margaret

The comments of Trevor & Tony address a real gripe we have with Seabourn excursions that include lunch. The issue is that the lunches are usually too long and too "elaborate". They take up too much of what should be sight seeing time.

No one coming off a Seabourn ship for an excursion needs another meal! They would do well to keep it simple and quick, thus keeping more people happy. If anyone feels underfed they can always "catchup" when back on board.

Just done this in St Petersburg on Legend. As stated above not fancy but more than adequate. Ditto re the long drawn out lunches on tours. Not as though one is on point of starvation on a cruise!

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Simply visit with the Chef as he's always pleased to pack a delicious box lunch ~I sometimes ask the pastry chef to pack a small box of his wonderful cookies to take a'long ~ I have even requested a 'lit box of cookies the night before disembarking ~ sooo good and such a treat to have when headin' to your hotel or to the airport. :p

MB

The problem probably will not be the ship..however, we have just finished 2 Med cruises (so several countries, including France) & every port said no ffruit or agricultural products.

The same applies in Australia. This is due to the risk of transferring fruit fly between regions. You can bring fruit on to the ship but it usually cannot be taken off in an area which has fruit growing enterprises.

Thanks everyone. We can but ask.