Chalkey21

That is one of the reasons we ate in the buffet, the other being that both my husband and I had relly swollen feet and we couldn't get proper shoes on. We had more lunches on sea days(and we had a lot of them owing that we eere rerouted from the Suez Canal) in the MDR.

My main grudge was the buffet not the Brittania restaurant, although service was vety slow. Food ok but not presented very well. The buffet food was never hot and even seasoned Cunarders called it a canteen, it deteriorated more after Cape Town when even more passengers joined the ship. The best food in the canteen was the porridge and the soups.

Just because you don't travel in the "posh" cabins, food should still be edible and not bland and repetive. I went down to the buffet at 2300, on the menu was a Beef Vindaloo I thought that is good. When I tried it it didn't taste of curry, I spoke to the head chef and he said that most people don't like hot curry. That is fair enough but don't call it a vindaloo. You say you checked prices but we were on the world cruise which wasn't cheap even in a balcony. I don't know how long your cruises usually are but maybe two weeks of drab food is ok, not for a 61 nighter. I obviously shouldn't expect too much from Cunard then. I am interested to hear what other cruises you have been on. Yoy can keep the QM2 and carry on dancing. Shame you never tried QE2 as that was exceptional.

Yes I did complain and so did a lot of other people, I think the head chef tried to hide when he saw me coming. A lot of people just stopped goung to the buffet opting for room service instead Chefs Galley was good and so was the Golden Lion.

If you read other posts, a.lot of people say they are the best ships and Cunard themselves call them Luxury Cruising. You might find it so, but we can't all travel in QG or PG.

I have seen a lot of people on this site saying Cunard have the best ships at sea. I would like to disagree with this as we disembarked from QM2 following her world cruise. The food in the buffet was terrible, no flavour, no seasoning and was bland, with the same lukewarm dishes rolled out every night. The restaurant food was slightly better but not by much. The pursers were either disinterested or not trained and were mostly unhelpful. I will be going back to Azamara, never to set foot on Cunard again. How they call themselves a luxury cruise line beats me.