New Restaurant Changes during Caribbean Princess Dry Dock

[trbarton]

Princess Cruises Announces Largest Food & Beverage Innovation Ever to Take Place during a Drydock

 

The Caribbean Princess is undergoing a major change with their restaurant venues. Perhaps Princess is using this as a test for other ships in the fleet.

World Fresh Marketplace – Replacing Horizon Court (deck 14)

Two Casual Specialty Restaurants - Café Caribe (deck 14 aft)

Planks BBQ......Steamers Seafood

Top-Deck Dining Venues – Four Princess top-deck outdoor dining offerings will be revitalized, renamed and enhanced, including:

The Salty Dog Grill (formerly Trident Grill)

Slice (formerly Pizzeria)

Coffee & Cones (formerly Scoops)

The Mix (formerly Blackbeard's Bar)

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http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=7692

Tom😀

[JF - retired RRT]

Hope they do this to all the ships.:D

[rkacruiser]

My uniformed opinion: don't get too excited. HAL is changing the Lido Restaurant into the Lido Marketplace. I have not seen any significant difference between the two "concepts".

[BarbinMich]

Having sailed on the CB 3x in the last 12 months, we look forward to our as-yet-unscheduled next cruise on her to enjoy the new eating venues on Deck 15. Usually we eat all our meals in Horizon and the decor/layout was getting a bit old, esp. since it's similar to that on the newer Crown-class ships on which we've also sailed many times. That's why the totally different concepts on Royal/Regal were such a welcome change.

[Myrtle Ave. Mayhem]

Just some observations based on my preferences & perceptions. I began sailing with Princess on the original Dawn Princess just after the Sitmar takeover. Back then the focus was on excellent food & service in the MDR. There were the Pizzeria & outdoor buffets set up by the aft pool. Once all the dining "options" came into place the general quality levels of food & service began a continuous decline. The current business model seems to be endless "revenue production" venues & creates(in my opinion) more of a tacky crass feeling to the product presentation. Ships are now purposefully designed with less general use public areas, i.e. no libraries, limited access to forward/aft outer decks, no usable promenade decks, observation lounges, aft pools, ect. I wish that mass market cruise lines would perhaps charge a slightly higher per diem and put the focus back on service & food quality in their MDR's. Yes, there are the likes of Oceania, Crystal, & Regent, but they are priced out of limits for someone like me who likes to cruise frequently. IF... Princess were to rebuild exact replicas of the original Island/Pacific or Dawn/Fair sisters I'm sure they'd be sold out my us "old school" cruisers. Just saying.

[Colo Cruiser]

Princess Cruises Announces Largest Food & Beverage Innovation Ever to Take Place during a Drydock

 

The Caribbean Princess is undergoing a major change with their restaurant venues. Perhaps Princess is using this as a test for other ships in the fleet.

World Fresh Marketplace – Replacing Horizon Court (deck 14)

Two Casual Specialty Restaurants - Café Caribe (deck 14 aft)

Planks BBQ......Steamers Seafood

Top-Deck Dining Venues – Four Princess top-deck outdoor dining offerings will be revitalized, renamed and enhanced, including:

The Salty Dog Grill (formerly Trident Grill)

Slice (formerly Pizzeria)

Coffee & Cones (formerly Scoops)

The Mix (formerly Blackbeard's Bar) Tom😀

 

The Mods had a sticky for this.....

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2477050

[Alaskanb]

Also a change in menu at Sabatinis --to be announced!

[TwoBadKnees]

Apparently there was a bomb hoax during dry dock:

http://crew-center.com/caribbean-princess-evacuated-due-bomb-alert

[easyboy]

Looks like it will be done on some ships. The crews on Crown were just oriented on the similar changes.

 

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[Thrak]

Apparently there was a bomb hoax during dry dock:

http://crew-center.com/caribbean-princess-evacuated-due-bomb-alert

 

Of course the infamous Jim Walker was mentioned. That guy is just "special". :rolleyes: