Okay – I’m going to say this right up front. This debate is nonsense. I don’t usually comment on other cruise web sites, but I just read an article from another site cruise which the editors deemed important enough to write up in a news format, “Readers Embroiled in For-Fee Steak Debate”. If you do [...]

by Jan Shaughnessy – In 1981 when I took my first cruise the dining options were simple.  The main dining room offered early or late dining for all meals.  The Lido deck buffet was open for breakfast and lunch only.  If you wanted 24-hour coffee you had to march way up to the Lido deck. [...]

I just came back from a cruise on a luxury ship where we had a butler who had the facility to serve us complete dinners in our stateroom. he would bring us the evening’s menus from the dining room and take our orders. Soon he would arrive with trays full of linens, cutlery and covered [...]