Eating in Cabin - Anything in Addition to Room Service?

[jtwind]

Hi All.  Can one get anything other than what is on the room service menu if one wants to have dinner in your cabin?  Is the room service menu the same every day for dinner?  Has anyone ever brought food back to their cabin themselves?  Thanks in advance.

[TayanaLorna]

9 minutes ago, jtwind said:

Hi All.  Can one get anything other than what is on the room service menu if one wants to have dinner in your cabin?  Is the room service menu the same every day for dinner?  Has anyone ever brought food back to their cabin themselves?  Thanks in advance.

Room service menu does not change.  However I believe you can get what is on The Restaurant menu during restaurant hours.

[Jim Avery]

On a WC you can get whatever is on at the time delivered.  Manfredi's, etc.  Or could.  Things change but no harm in asking.

[Cienfuegos]

18 minutes ago, Jim Avery said:

On a WC you can get whatever is on at the time delivered.  Manfredi's, etc.  Or could.  Things change but no harm in asking.

That was my experience on the Trade Routes cruise in 2019, as well.

[jtwind]

Unfortunately, not going on a world cruise.

[SDHusker]

A bit of a guess at this time, but Viking always goes out of their way to get what you want.  They always did as described above and I hope they still do.

 

[Australia08]

17 hours ago, SDHusker said:

A bit of a guess at this time, but Viking always goes out of their way to get what you want.  They always did as described above and I hope they still do.

 

Does depend. We came back from a late tour. Missed dinner. On a previous pre-COVID cruise there was a bottle of wine and sandwiches waiting for us in our room when we returned from a late tour). I called Room Service to see if I could get any other type of soup (other than the chicken soup in the room service menu). We were told no. We knew about the late night Mamsen pea soup so went up there. Room service was not willing to provide anything different to our room. 
 

Several nights later we had a late tour and when we returned to our room, the sandwiches and sweets (no wine) was waiting for us. It just depends on who you talk with and what ship you’re on and …

[jtwind]

Did you take the pea soup back to your room?

[cathome]

You can take your chosen food anywhere you like.

[Liz Masterson]

4 hours ago, Australia08 said:

. We knew about the late night Mamsen pea soup so went up there...

I am looking forward to trying that soup...

[Clay Clayton]

1 hour ago, Liz Masterson said:

I am looking forward to trying that soup...

If you see chilled pea soup on any menu, order it immediately.  So so good. We had it for an appetizer, then asked for another bowl in lieu of dessert. Our waiter asked (joking I suspect) if we wanted some to go and when we said yes, had two glasses delivered to our room.  We had them the next day for lunch. 
 

On our half Transatlantic, they advertised pea soup one day in the WC, when our waiter saw my face when I realized it was hot split pea soup rather than chilled  spring pea soup he asked what was the matter.  When I told him, he had the chef come to the table.  He wasn’t aware of the soup but said he would check the recipe book (the computer I suspect). A little while later he said to come find him the next day and voila we had it!

[Australia08]

4 hours ago, jtwind said:

Did you take the pea soup back to your room?

No, we just ordered a glass of wine and a charcuterie plate to go with the soup and ate at the Explorers bar. We were the only people at the bar. 

[mhb1757]

On 2/26/2022 at 3:29 PM, Clay Clayton said:
 

On our half Transatlantic, they advertised pea soup one day in the WC, when our waiter saw my face when I realized it was hot split pea soup rather than chilled  spring pea soup he asked what was the matter.  When I told him, he had the chef come to the table.  He wasn’t aware of the soup but said he would check the recipe book (the computer I suspect). A little while later he said to come find him the next day and voila we had it!

 

ok, this may be a really stupid question, but how does one do a half trans-Atlantic?  Are you a marathon swimmer and just decided to jump 😂😂😂?

 

[Clay Clayton]

12 minutes ago, mhb1757 said:

 

We were aboard on March 12 when Viking announced cessation of operations due to Covid. So we turned around in the middle of the Atlantic and returned to Miami 😢

[mhb1757]

Now that makes sense. But my version was a lot more entertaining 😂😂

[Jim Avery]

As this thread is about eating stuff in the room, we began to miss certain things on extended voyages.  Number one was probably potato chips.  You get lots of great food on Viking but just try to find a potato chip....  And the bar snacks.  The overdone 5pm snacks in the Viking Bar were mostly wasted.  All we wanted was trail mix, nuts, or especially pretzels.  We hit a grocery in Australia and bought tons of good ole junk food and turned one of the chairs in the cabin into our "pantry".  Took a bag of pretzels to the Viking Bar one evening and passed them around.  Not a one left.  The nut mix at Explorers Bar is the closest to real bar snacks.  Especially when you ask for them with no wasabi peas.  Again, amazing what you start to miss even though surrounded with great foods.🤗🍸

[Mich3554]

27 minutes ago, Jim Avery said:

As this thread is about eating stuff in the room, we began to miss certain things on extended voyages.  Number one was probably potato chips.  You get lots of great food on Viking but just try to find a potato chip....  And the bar snacks.  The overdone 5pm snacks in the Viking Bar were mostly wasted.  All we wanted was trail mix, nuts, or especially pretzels.  We hit a grocery in Australia and bought tons of good ole junk food and turned one of the chairs in the cabin into our "pantry".  Took a bag of pretzels to the Viking Bar one evening and passed them around.  Not a one left.  The nut mix at Explorers Bar is the closest to real bar snacks.  Especially when you ask for them with no wasabi peas.  Again, amazing what you start to miss even though surrounded with great foods.🤗🍸

I have to laugh at this.  After being on the ship for nearly 3 weeks, we were in a small ‘pub’ in Madeira.  DH saw a bag of one of his major addictions on the shelf, Lay’s Salt and Vinegar chips.  He showed him to me when we got back onto the bus, and I asked him how he restrained himself from buying out their stock.  He bought ONE BAG, he never buys one bag!

 

[Twitchly]

7 hours ago, Jim Avery said:

The nut mix at Explorers Bar is the closest to real bar snacks.  Especially when you ask for them with no wasabi peas.  

But the wasabi peas are the best part!

[Jim Avery]

9 hours ago, Twitchly said:

But the wasabi peas are the best part!

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.    😎

[millybess]

1 hour ago, Jim Avery said:

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.    😎

Haha!  Thanks loads.  I'll have that jingle in my head for the rest of the day at least.  🎵

[jtwind]

On 2/26/2022 at 10:02 AM, cathome said:

You can take your chosen food anywhere you like.

Have others done this?

[Cadodge]

My wife and I took our plates to an outside table by the pool regularly. Occasionally back to our cabin. Never a problem.

[jtwind]

1 hour ago, Cadodge said:

My wife and I took our plates to an outside table by the pool regularly. Occasionally back to our cabin. Never a problem.

From which restaurants?

[JeriGail]

59 minutes ago, jtwind said:

From which restaurants?

I never took any food away from The Restaurant, Manfredi's, or Chef's Table, but I frequently took items from the World Cafe of Mamsen's.

[Cadodge]

1 hour ago, jtwind said:

From which restaurants?

The World cafe.