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Been vegan 8.5 years and have cruised many times on RCCL with great success after going vegan and have heard Carnival is even better! Also excited to be going back on Carnival, had fun on them in the past! Now next month we'll be sure to find good options as we are on the Fundraising cruise for Esther the Wonder Pig so we're super excited that it will be easier than usual :) We have 3 vegans, 1 vegetarian and 1 meat eater in the family but only the vegans/vegetarian are going next month (meat-eater has to be back at college).

 

Love these tips!

I wanted to go on that Esther cruise! Timing didn't work out. Have fun. The book is hilarious.

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I went vegetarian because suddenly I couldn't stand the thought of meat, and it was a quick jump to vegan after that. The one thing I do is drink half and half with my coffee. I have yet to find a vegan cream replacer and there's no way I'm soaking cashews, not a chance. I don't like sweetener in my coffee, the only "milk" I drink is unsweetened almond milk but it's not enough in my coffee.

Anyway, I've cruised as a vegetarian before. There are a lot of options as we all know. The breakfast burritos with the crunchy hash brown bits are to die for. Love those. The pasta is quite frequently vegetarian if you just take the shrimp off, for example. I know that some dishes probably have some beef stock in them but I really try to stay far away from them. The buffet is easy. Plenty of vegetarian things to eat at all times.

Vegan gets a little trickier. We like to eat in the MDR at night so it gets far more limited. You can get the menu the night before and select or you can just eat sides or the Indian selection. Honestly after a day of pigging out in the buffet I don't mind a dinner of two baked potatoes and some broccoli. Yes it's limited in the MDR but a vegan diet is by its nature a limited way of eating. We might be able to create colorful, varied meals but we are in fact limiting whole groups of foods. So it's limited.

My plan for these next cruises is to throttle back to vegetarian. I like the Danish (butter), I like the breakfast burritos (eggs), I like the Caesar salad (eggs, dairy and yes some anchovies in it somewhere). So I will be "mostly vegan" and move on.

I give all vegans who cruise a lot of credit. There are days with not a lot to do but lie around and eat. I became a vegan for compassionate reasons. I still cook meat at home 4 nights out of 7 because I have some students living here and one child still at home and they all expect meat. My husband is a vegetarian who is happy being vegan most of the time but will also like a good Mac and cheese.

People who have left some drive by snarky comments on here are not helping, but they have their own agendas in life and "helping" is not on the agenda.

Definitely accepting ideas on what I can do about the coffee creamer issue! No corn syrup. Can't stand sweetened coffee. Thanks in advance-

Thank you for the pics!

We asked for it they don't post it on the menu and I verified that it is vegan.

 

 

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Did you have to wait a long time for them to cook it?

I'm wondering the same thing as I've been vegan (again) for two months. My plan for my upcoming cruises is to be vegetarian. That opens up a world of pasta dishes with dairy sauces etc. It's just much more flexible. I've never seen milk alternatives like soy and almond on board.

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I'm in the same boat you are, OP.

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Glad you had a good experience with Charleston!

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I think it is the customer service on smaller ships, I really do. We had a similar experience in Fantasy. We had an issue and they were all over us the rest of the cruise to make sure everything was ok.

Glad you had a good experience!

 

Along with this will come the challenges of squeezing the LNG infrastructure into the hull. LNG requires 6 times the volume for the same energy as residual fuel oil, so tankage either increases, or they fuel more often. Also, the LNG tanks cannot be on the bottom or sides of the hull like fuel oil tanks, they must be in the central 60% of the hull (side to side), which is prime space in the engine rooms. You also have to add the required void spaces around the tanks, and the re-liquifaction equipment to keep from boiling off too much LNG, and you've got a real Tetris problem going.

Very interesting

Thanks for the review! Looking forward to Magic.

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So glad you had a great time!

Excellent review, thank you

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Yikes. I e been out in some bad storms before. Not fun.

That's an excellent deal!

Guess you think a family is all about the parents being demigods and their children their "servants" and children should be seen and not heard and their feelings and interests and obligations don't matter a hoot. No wonder so many kids fly the coop at 18 and are rarely seen or heard from again.

 

Luckily, in our family, we have always thought of the unit as a safe place for personal expression and personal interests and everyone has a voice and a vote, no matter how young or how small.

 

The world, and a family, is so much better when love and compromise are part of the equation.

Agreed. Plus some people are not taking into account the child's obligation to his team and the wrath of coaches if you miss practice. It's not all about "I'm the adult and pay for everything so you do as I say". It's also about the commitment of the child to the team. It's just a part of being a parent. School obligations.

I have a friend who turned 50 a few months ago....her husband dropped dead of a heart attack 5 years ago. They have two beautiful sons, 16 and 14. She just went into hospice last night.

 

FWIW.

 

Sorry to be a downer.....

 

 

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Oh I'm so sorry.

Just as an aside, I drink water with the smallest splash of lemonade. It still gives the water a lot of flavor and can't really be adding much in the way of sweeteners. Sorry if that's the wrong info. OP, you could try to get used to those drops people use to flavor water all the time these days- I wish I could remember what they're called but I've seen friends use them. Maybe you'll find one you like and voila, problem solved. Good luck with your cruise!

Oh I can, Zeta3. I'm sailing alone with my 18-turning-19 year old next June. I'm worried he will not meet anyone to hang out with. It's 15 day B2B, too. He's usually in the kids club/Club02 all the time and then hanging out with friends from there. He still has friends he met five years ago on Carnival ships. So now what? People tend to travel in groups. I just wish there was some way to get kids of this age together once a day- even twice per cruise for an hour. Just throw them in a room and say here: meet! End.

This, and the giant ships in Venice, are what give cruising a bad name.

People, really? No on ever brought your attention to the fact that Carnivak has over the top decor? It's known for that, in fact it embraced it for a long time. If you read about each ship and Joe Farcus's concept for the decor of each ship then you're familiar with the fact that he was trying to make an extremely bold statement with each room he designed. It's not for everyone. Not by a long shot. But when your dining room has giant purple grape items in the ceiling and walls that light up you are indeed dining in a Vegas-type room. It matters to a lot of people. Some people want a peaceful, understated, possibly even nautical decor. You don't have to act like the OP is examining the decor with a magnifying glass and letting it "ruin her cruise" when she should be having fun. She never said she wouldn't have fun.

Dream, Magic, Breeze, Vista, and to a lesser extent Sunshine.

Hope this helps.

I'm glad you enjoyed yourself! Welcome to cruising!

That's excellent! Happy for you!

We had a wonderful cruise planned to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary. My family, my Mom's sister and brother and sister-in-law. My aunt's family decided to join us...uninvited. We had to change our plans..I won't even go into all of it, because we decided to make the best of it, even though this cousin was a professional complainer, thinking that a cruise would be so much fun she would forget to complain. After all, we can't stop smiling on a cruise and it's SO MUCH FUN. She then invited her brothers and their families. In total, she changed the cruise from 11 to 27 of us, CHARTERED a bus and insisted we not fly, and there was not one thing that she and her brothers and their family did not complain about...from the food to the weather to the crew. They even went so far as to almost accuse the cabin steward of stealing a piece of jewelry (found right where they had HIDDEN IT). The weather was too hot (it was the Caribbean during the summer), the food was too fancy (really?), the food was too spicy, the waiter was too slow and should just bring all the courses at one time (seriously?), the water coming out of the faucet was too warm, the beds were too hard, too soft, too short, the shower was too small, they didn't like how the toilet flushed, the pool area was too crowded, the halls were too narrow, the walk was too long to get everywhere on the ship, the music wasn't good, the shows were corny, their eggs weren't cooked the way they cook them at home, the drinks were too expensive, the humidity fogged up the lens on the camera, they didn't like dressing up (and this wasn't even about formal night...wearing pants was a big deal), they didn't like being out in the ocean all day (sea days), they didn't think the ports were safe, the walls in the cabin were too thin, the cabins were too small...the list was endless. The got into such a loud argument among themselves, I thought they were going to get thrown off the ship one night. We tried to stay as far away from them as possible. The spent the entire LONG bus ride home complaining about the cruise. The good thing that came out of the cruise was that by the time the charter bus pulled in and let us out, we never spoke to them again...still haven't and that was about 10 years ago. We go on a cruise about once or twice a year and from the time I get on the ship until they make me leave, I'm smiling and enjoying myself. I don't understand anyone that complains while they are on a cruise. When I stop enjoying it, I'll stop cruising. It's 117 days until my next cruise and I'm so excited I can't stand it. We have another one planned for 191 days from now. I smile every time I think of being back on a cruise ship.

That is a nightmare! Oh my God I would've just been laughing at them after a certain point. What a nightmare.

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The crocs visor lives! You should have taken a picture. I'm platinum next cruise and if I get the crocs visor...:eek:

Yeah I've had it with the Pride, too. Excellent review and it sounds like you had a great time but I get it. We are doing a B2B on Magic. The drive isn't the end of the world and the ship looks beautiful. So you might want to try Magic. Check out some YouTube videos- she's beautiful.

The lido buffet food was really great when we were on Pride, too.

Glad you had a good time and managed to please such a disparate age group-

Lie Bistro is a wonderful experience- food generally delicious and ambience is lovely. I would book Le Bistro for sure and let them know you're having an anniversary. Congrats!