johng75370 Posted December 4, 2019 #51 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Emperor Norton, thanks for the great updates. Looking forward to hearing about the new menus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videopark Posted December 4, 2019 #52 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Chef Jes is aboard for the roll out of new menus/chargers (starts today at tea time). Looking forward to the response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 4, 2019 Author #53 Share Posted December 4, 2019 It seems the other ships have the new menus/tea setup and Sojourn is the last. Tea service will apparently no longer have any self service components. An early look at the servers tea station. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 4, 2019 Author #54 Share Posted December 4, 2019 I like tea. It’s a more formal style where’s there’s no self service component. It took 3 minutes before a few customers chimped out over the change. No bartenders at trivia. Thankfully were only playing for fun as the CD fully believes San Francisco is the worlds largest landlocked harbor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rols Posted December 5, 2019 #55 Share Posted December 5, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Emperor Norton said: No bartenders at trivia. Thankfully were only playing for fun as the CD fully believes San Francisco is the worlds largest landlocked harbor. To be fair, having just done a search, so does the Internet. If it's not San Francisco .. what is it? Excellent news about a) Chef Jes being on board and b) the new tea service. Perhaps slightly less excellent news that caviar privileges are being .. stretched. Edited December 5, 2019 by rols Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 5, 2019 Author #56 Share Posted December 5, 2019 The menu change was interesting- I think similar to the layout from years ago. Theres now a nightly chefs special in addition to the usual suspects and I *think* some new items (or just new to me). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videopark Posted December 5, 2019 #57 Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, rols said: Excellent news about a) Chef Jes being on board and b) the new tea service. Perhaps slightly less excellent news that caviar privileges are being .. stretched. Stretched as in small, limited? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 5, 2019 Author #58 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Stretched as in some people may be over consuming (eg 6 orders for 2 people pre dinner, more with and more after). In St. John’s till late I believe tomorrow is beach day at some Bramblesomething rather than the old Jost Van Dyke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 5, 2019 Author #59 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Setting up for the local steel pot band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videopark Posted December 5, 2019 #60 Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Emperor Norton said: Stretched as in some people may be over consuming (eg 6 orders for 2 people pre dinner, more with and more after). Perhaps some form of policing is needed. You can only order from your waiter X times per day, for instance. Or give out a several "Caviar Cards" that you hand to your waiter. It would have your name and suite number. You cannot give the card to someone else. I'm sure some of you have other ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng75370 Posted December 5, 2019 #61 Share Posted December 5, 2019 17 minutes ago, Videopark said: Perhaps some form of policing is needed. You can only order from your waiter X times per day, for instance. Or give out a several "Caviar Cards" that you hand to your waiter. It would have your name and suite number. You cannot give the card to someone else. I'm sure some of you have other ideas. Not sure I agree....try replacing the word caviar with Champagne. If Seabourn starts down that path, it would be a sad change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Videopark Posted December 5, 2019 #62 Share Posted December 5, 2019 1 hour ago, johng75370 said: Not sure I agree....try replacing the word caviar with Champagne. If Seabourn starts down that path, it would be a sad change. I read somewhere that you may not get a bottle of Champagne delivered to your suite only glasses. Seems some pax loaded their suitcase so full with full bottles that they could not pick it up. Can you order bottles to a suite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng75370 Posted December 5, 2019 #63 Share Posted December 5, 2019 2 hours ago, Videopark said: Can you order bottles to a suite? We were able to a few years ago; only time we asked. The difference of course is that you can still order as much Champagne as you want, maybe not in the container you'd prefer. And of course wine bottles they seem very happy to resupply. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alipius Posted December 6, 2019 #64 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Emperor Norton: I can't thank you enough, informative and fun to read. San Francisco 'land-locked'!? "Cruise ships arriving in San Francisco dock at the cruise port terminal between the Fisherman’s Wharf and the Bay Bridge at Pier 35 and Pier 27." The Piers are just around the corner from The Bridge...If a bridge at the entrance locks off the sea..... then so is Sydney Harbour 'land-locked'. How can water be 'land-locked' if a Cruise ship can go in there!? Every single harbour is 'landlocked', at the back! Anyway, if you go to the internet, you'll see the article chooses to define 'landlocked' as 'virtually enclosed': which is, for all practical purposes, the definition of a 'harbour'. Those CDs can be so vexing sometimes... Some of them just don't get it about how seriously we take Team Trivia. PS Why doesn't Seabourn go to San Francisco? It doesn't even go to Seattle (we were on the only time that, as far as I know, it did, and that was so the Staff could have a party on board). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alipius Posted December 6, 2019 #65 Share Posted December 6, 2019 5 hours ago, Videopark said: I read somewhere that you may not get a bottle of Champagne delivered to your suite only glasses. Seems some pax loaded their suitcase so full with full bottles that they could not pick it up. Can you order bottles to a suite? "Seems some pax loaded their suitcase so full with full bottles that they could not pick it up". Well, these days you wheel it, not pick it up. And our suitcases are so full after a cruise that I'm leaving things behind. And, what's the good of a suitcase half-full of the Nicholas if you're getting off in Singapore and then have to try to fly with it to, say, Sydney; or wherever? I think we've got a cruise version of an urban-myth here. Anyway, getting a bottle of a late- evening is snack: you just order a glass or two and then again and after a while a different waiter (it's always a different one) arrives with a bottle. The only time I know of when it was taken off the ship in excess of a passenger's entitlement was mainly my doing. Three to four years ago, the Quest managed to get us into South Georgia Island. Young scientists from the research station who'd been there half a year or so came on board for lunch. There is, of course, no store on the Island and we quickly learnt that the supply-ship delivers very little wine etc., if any and also that one of them was having a birthday that day. I mentioned this in the Dining Room to a number of fellows I knew and after we had gone back to our rooms and returned shortly we had two backpacks with three of the Nicholas in each. Nothing leaves the Island: and so am delighted the six empties from that night are still there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 6, 2019 Author #66 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Today is the caviar in the surf event in the (new to me) location. It started to sprinkle after leaving the colonnade so hopefully that stops before the event starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 6, 2019 Author #67 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Waiting to tender. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 6, 2019 Author #68 Share Posted December 6, 2019 People are slowly filtering in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 6, 2019 Author #69 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Guess it’s more popular now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alithecat Posted December 6, 2019 #70 Share Posted December 6, 2019 What location is the caviar in the surf? Wondering if that's where ours will be next week on the Sojourn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng75370 Posted December 6, 2019 #71 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) 22 minutes ago, alithecat said: What location is the caviar in the surf? Wondering if that's where ours will be next week on the Sojourn. Ours will be at Isla Catalina on Saturday....can't wait! Thanks for the pics Emperor Norton - didn't need help getting excited to join Sojourn next week, but your pics did just that. Edited December 6, 2019 by johng75370 typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isklaar Posted December 6, 2019 #72 Share Posted December 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, johng75370 said: Ours will be at Isla Catalina on Saturday....can't wait! Thanks for the pics Emperor Norton - didn't need help getting excited to join Sojourn next week, but your pics did just that. Have you been to Isla Catalina previously for caviar in the surf? I hadn't seen it on itineraries for quite some time, but I do recall in early 2013 the reviews weren't too good, and then it popped up on our cruise next week. Would be good to hear an update from someone who has visited more recently. alithecat I believe that Emperor Norton is at Carambola Beach, St Kitts, which is one of my favourite locations for the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isklaar Posted December 6, 2019 #73 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Emperor Norton, did they arrange a replacement bar manager yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 7, 2019 Author #74 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Carambola is correct. Today the caviar was delivered to the beach in front of the tender dock (random pier was to the left) no talk of a new bar manager as of yet. Chef Jes takes over Jan 4. Apparently short shorts are ok in the restaurant for some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Norton Posted December 7, 2019 Author #75 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Thomas is the restaurant manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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