Elmer McCurdy

With the clientele slide, $7 wine is pretty high class after Boone's Farms:rolleyes:

Hey, I can get two bottles of MD 20/20 for that price!

For the price of $75 (on top of the food that you've paid for already in the dining room) there should be wine pairings and some higher quality wine.

 

They served Black Opal wine which I can buy for about $7 on sale - not exactly part of a fine dining experience.

The only thing I can think of is that the chefs have been trained as sommeliers and aren't capable or confident of their ability to successfully pair wines per course. That, or CCL didn't think anyone would notice.

Not to mention much safer! :D

 

Tom

Safer yes ... but only slightly so when compared to a plastic auto-scoring dart board. Those plastic-tipped darts don't hurt nearly badly as the metal ones.

Lame games... like their "Cornhole" game?

 

I was taken aback when I first saw that on a Carnival ship, as I recall that word from my middle school days.

 

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so.... :rolleyes:

 

Just RENAME the darn game to bean bag toss or something... I can't be the only one whose eyebrows were raised as a result!

 

Tom

That's what we call it, Bean Bag Toss. I guess it's not as entertaining without a racy double entendre, but it's still a lot of fun, especially if you're two and a half sheets to the wind and there isn't a dart board in sight.

now you're barking up the wrong tree. I still go to the same catskill "resort" that i first went to at the age of 1 back in the 50's.

 

10 cent bingo, horse racing, and all the rot, still. and the place is still packed every year.

Does Johnny still lead the tango at the End of Summer show? Do you also stick Baby in a corner? ;)

I like the ships where I can ignore the CD. :p

Hey now, no disparaging Skeeball. I'd love a skeeball alley or two on a ship.

How about they get rid of the boring old Catskills-on-the-seas group activities and lame games?

wow maybe we should just eat in the MDR. Sit down order eat leave...seems better

It has extremely limited hours for meals other than dinner. In fact, it's not open for lunch when the ship is in port.

Believe it or not, most people actually do use common sense and display a modicum of good manners. It's not a total free-for-all. This issue, like all issues regarding standards of behaviour, gets blown out of proportion on the internet because no one wants to find out that they are rude when they believe they've been completely mannerly.

The problem, really, isn't the people in line. It's the poor design of the buffet. They need to get with the times and drop the linear design and go wtih the action-station concept. I've seen lunchtime hot buffets in bodegas that are more efficient that the Lido buffet on CCL.

There is a difference between quickly inserting yourself in line to grab one singular item and inserting yourself in line at various points to grab stuff.

And no, I'm not getting at the back of the line for just one item while people move from station to station, ponder the nutrional value of the food, and narrate their choices to the person next to them.

What's ruder? Jumping in line for one item, or holding up the entire line while you and Aunt Bertha debate the fiber content of french fries?