Continuing my Blogs about my past Cruise on the Carnival Liberty I will now talk about the food.

There are four basic ways to eat on the ship.
1) The Main Dining room, split into two separate dining areas Gold and Silver.
2) Emile's, Lido Deck buffet area. Four separate buffet lines, plus three extra stations, plus a dessert station.
3) Room Service
4) The Pizza Station, Burrito Bar, Deli Sandwich shop.

First the main dining rooms. We only ate in the main dining rooms for Diner. And each meal was great. They offer the usual cruise menu of appetizers, salads, soup (one cold one hot) main entrees including beef, fish, chicken, vegitarian. They also offer their Carnival Classics, a set menu that is always available. A steak, a pasta. a fish. The menu for the week ranged from Coq au Vin to Prime Rib twice to Lobster. With pastas dishes each night that were real tasty (this is comming from an Italian that is picky about his pasta). There was only a Ceazar salad offered, this is bad because I would have liked a normal salad onece or twice. The soups were real tasty and flavorfull. Carnival is not shy about stretching its culinary wings and getting creative with the spices. Some Cruise lines might not put the spice in their dishes fearin that people will not like it, but not Carnival. And to this I tip my hat at them. The desserts, they only offered two different choices (plus the usual ice cream fare) each night. And they were all great.

Room service, we did not spend much time in the room. So the only time I had room service was for my morning coffee, which was always prompt and hot.

The Lido deck, has great food also. Breakfast had the standard fare each morning, with some twists. Like differently prepared breakfast potatoes and a carving station with fresh ham three timees on the cruise. There is also two omlett stations, but they were always busy so I did not partake. Lunch always had a theme, French, Italian, Indian. And aside from salads and lunchmeats there was five dishes presented in this theme each day, plus a carving station and desserts There is also a stirfry station (the omlett station) and this was also tasty. There is a place called Fish and Chips, but it is upstairs on deck 10 and real out of the way, so I did not visit it.

The last is the pizza bar which is always open and has fresh hot pizza all day. A grill that serves hamburgers, fries and nachos poolside. A Burriot bar where they will fill a wrap with whatever you want. And the Deli that has fresh hot and cold sandwiches. And they also have a Suchi bar on deck 5 open also.

Overall I was real pleased with the food. Very constitant and good. If you have bland taste buds you might want to watch what you eat. But if you like flavorfull food , you will be in for a treat.

No I do not mean we should all go to Rio. But that would be cool.

I am talking about Carnival Cruise Lines.

It is weird that this is my first Carnival Cruise. Living 1 hour from the number two and number one ports in the world you think that I would have gone on a Carnival Cruise before. I just never had the opportunity.

Well let me say that I am hooked. The Carnival Cruise Line experience was am amazing one. Now not all of the cruise was good there were some faults. And I will address some of those in the future posts.

But for now let me say that The Carnival Liberty is a great Ship, with one of the best Crews I have seen in a long while. The food was excellent and the party non-stop.

I ust read a trip report from a guy that just got back from Walt Disney World. He was saying how Future world looks dead, all of these walls everywhere. Well with Space mountain down till Christmas, and the TTA out too, there is two big attractions gone from this busy section of the park.

Here is some advice on how to plan your stay so that you do not miss those special attractions.

1) The Internet. Surf on over to www.WDWmagic.com; or www.wdwnt.com, both of these sites have great, extensive forums about all things Disney. From trip reports, to rumors to ride rehab dates. Sometimes you will even find the dates to a rehab that has not been announced yet. Regulars to the parks, cast members and people who know people who know people, frequent these sites and are willing to share all the news they can muster.

2) The Disney Website, lists all of the current ride rehabs, on the web pages of the parks. This way you can see what is open and what is closed right now.

3) Call Disney (407-WDISNEY). The people on the phone will be happy to ewither get you the information or get you to someone who knows.

Remember it is not the end of the world if a ride is down for rehab. Or if a ride you think was going to be open isn't. Just smile, your in Orlando and move on to the next ride. Disney is not going to close down to much at any one time. So while Space Mountainan the TTA seem like a lot thats closed in Tomorrowland. You still have Buzz, the Carosel of Progress, Tommorowland Speedway, Monsters Inc, and Stitch.


Just have fun.