We loved this cruise. We have been on over 50 cruises, but on mainstream lines..mostly RCCL and Princess, but on pretty much every one...never on an "upscale" line. This was our best cruise ever.

We thought the food was great. And, we loved Manfredi's! From the first night that we ate there the maitre'd (Florin) called us by name every time he saw us out and about the ship.We ended up eating there I think 7 times. We only had 1 reservation but we just kept adding reservations at the desk in the World Cafe. The ribeye steak was the best I have ever had. The beef tartar appetizer was so tasty, my husband loved the cold tomato soup, the mushroom soup was great, and the pastas were good each time. We tried several types of veal, the lamb, and the chicken parmesan. The breads were wonderful and the service as well. The servers always would come up and say hello to us in the World Cafe. We don't eat any type of seafood so have no idea about that. We did not eat at the Chefs Table. The menu we were interested in was the French menu (because we were told we could substitute a steak for the entree) but it was only offered the first night. I found that strange...on a 3 week cruise. They said they repeat the menus every 3 nights. We weren't interested in any of the others. We thought that the food in the World Cafe was very good and a good variety. A lot of times I ordered the chicken breast (which is cooked to order) and it was always tasty and moist. There were plenty of side dishes for us and we enjoyed having the folks make our salad! They got so they recognized us and pretty much knew what we wanted. There were 8 flavors of gelato each day..The World Cafe had table service for your beverages, etc, and we ate there a lot more than we thought we would, it was that good.The Restaurant was OK. We enjoyed meeting other folks at our table but a lot of times it took way too long (2 to 2 and a half hours). When we felt like sitting for a while we would go there, and, again, the restaurant manager, Angela, would recognize us and say Oh welcome back!! You like to share a table, right? Some dishes were good, a few we didn't care for, but we never sent anything back. We never did afternoon tea and I did make it to Mamsen's for a waffle once which was good. We tend to not get up early on vacation.

The wine and beer were everflowing at lunch and dinner, and if you wanted to you could head up to the World Cafe and get a wine "to go" to take to the show as long as it was within meal times. Read more