Where the bacon never takes bacation

[IntrepidFromDC]

I have a casino offer where the family harbor cabin (deck 4) is a better deal than a regular cabin (deck 8).  Ignoring "which ship?", I want to know - does the bacon never go on bacation at family harbor?  TIA.  I'm thinking of playing robin hood and taking the whole tray of bacon up to lido on bacation day.  😁 🏴‍☠️

[southbayer]

I have no idea what you mean ?

[mondello]

When Robin Hood dons his pirate outfit to liberate the bacon from breakfast in the Family Harbor lounge and takin’ the bacon up to the huddled masses in the Lido buffet. Some people require daily bacon fix and Lido only offers alternate days.

[Roscoe13]

On 10/19/2022 at 6:06 PM, IntrepidFromDC said:

I have a casino offer where the family harbor cabin (deck 4) is a better deal than a regular cabin (deck 8).  Ignoring "which ship?", I want to know - does the bacon never go on bacation at family harbor?  TIA.  I'm thinking of playing robin hood and taking the whole tray of bacon up to lido on bacation day.  😁 🏴‍☠️

This why we can never cruise together.  The shenanigans we might pull would definitely lead to first name basis with security.  

[Homosassa]

On 10/19/2022 at 9:06 PM, IntrepidFromDC said:

I have a casino offer where the family harbor cabin (deck 4) is a better deal than a regular cabin (deck 8).  Ignoring "which ship?", I want to know - does the bacon never go on bacation at family harbor?  TIA.  I'm thinking of playing robin hood and taking the whole tray of bacon up to lido on bacation day.  😁 🏴‍☠️

Another option is to actually pay the price for a cruise on a line where the fare is high enough to cover the cost of bacon (American and English), smoked salmon and other staples on the buffet.

 

You get what you pay for.

[bguppies]

Hopefully somebody else in the family harbor, also wanting bacon, will catch Robin Hood making off with all the bacon and break both his hands, to help him think through such stupid ideas.

(maybe Robin can get Friar Tuck or Little John  to apply his suntan lotion the rest of the cruise)

[BarbieGee]

Okay.. so... this may be a Noob questions but.... WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BACON? Is there a bacon shortage on Carnival?

I've seen the term 'bacation' on other topics and this is a puzzling topic.

 

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[ray98]

7 minutes ago, BarbieGee said:

Okay.. so... this may be a Noob questions but.... WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BACON? Is there a bacon shortage on Carnival?

I've seen the term 'bacation' on other topics and this is a puzzling topic.

 

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Carnival is the only entity left with a bacon shortage 'due to Covid' and all that. Lol.

[BlerkOne]

Just now, ray98 said:

Carnival is the only entity left with a bacon shortage 'due to Covid' and all that. Lol.

'due to the price of pork'

[Daddyfto]

CCL goes up on non bacon days 😁

 

[Saint Greg]

The MDR.

[starstruck05]

1 hour ago, ray98 said:

Carnival is the only entity left with a bacon shortage 'due to Covid' and all that. Lol.

It was never due to covid. Carnival reduced the bacon long before Covid started. The amount of bacon consumed and or wasted on the ship was extremely expensive for the bottom line so they at first made it where someone handed you bacon then made it every other day. But it's a mute point because you can get it in an omelet everyday or in the dining room every day. It's a really over blown thing TBH (on CC comments not by Carnival)

Edited October 23, 2022 by starstruck05

[DallasGuy75219]

1 hour ago, BarbieGee said:

Okay.. so... this may be a Noob questions but.... WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH BACON? Is there a bacon shortage on Carnival?

I've seen the term 'bacation' on other topics and this is a puzzling topic.

 

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There's no bacon shortage, just a shortage of bacon at the dirt cheap prices Carnival is willing to pay for the quantity they'd need for Lido breakfast every.

 

When they first cut bacon down to every other day on the Lido, they put up signs with something corny like "The bacon is on bacation today but will be back tomorrow."  They kinda got mocked for it, at least on here, and first-time cruisers can't miss something if they didn't know it was the old norm in the first place, so the signs eventually went away.

[Theosprey247]

The bacon the Big 3 cruise lines use is barely bacon 🥓 so I don’t get all the fuss over it. 

[BlerkOne]

59 minutes ago, DallasGuy75219 said:

There's no bacon shortage, just a shortage of bacon at the dirt cheap prices Carnival is willing to pay for the quantity they'd need for Lido breakfast every.

 

Carnival doesn't buy pork bellies on the spot market. They have ginormous contracts with a limited number of suppliers and the price of pork is up, up, up. Nobody ranches bacon - they have to do something with the rest of the pig.

[BlerkOne]

53 minutes ago, Theosprey247 said:

The bacon the Big 3 cruise lines use is barely bacon 🥓 so I don’t get all the fuss over it. 

It is much noise about nothing until the next nothing comes along.

[DallasGuy75219]

3 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

Carnival doesn't buy pork bellies on the spot market. They have ginormous contracts with a limited number of suppliers and the price of pork is up, up, up. Nobody ranches bacon - they have to do something with the rest of the pig.

Completely irrelevant to the fact that Carnival could buy all the bacon they want if they were willing to pay market prices.  All the other major cruiselines use a similar supplier strategy (and in some cases the same suppliers) yet Carnival is the only one with a bacon shortage.

[ray98]

Lol...it is the most common breakfast meat by far yet some are puzzled why people mention it? 

 

I'm just glad some on here are now forced to admit it is because of being cheap.  I have not found a land based restaurant or competing cruise line that has failed to find a way to budget for bacon....just Carnival. 

[BlerkOne]

I admit I appreciate Carnival trying to control escalating costs, including the price of my cruise. Nothing to do with being cheap. Not all of us get free cruises, and I see no need to subsidize others. Bacon is available everyday on Carnival. So what if someone has to walk a little farther to obtain it?

[mz-s]

The way I see it - Carnival is just devaluing their product. It's their decision. Their cruises are not worth what they used to be worth. I won't pay 2019 prices for 2022 Carnival. Carnival's fares are lagging far behind their competition and they can't put bacon on vacation enough to turn a profit.

 

I wish it wasn't a constant surprise on what the next cutback will be. So often we don't find out about changes until somebody reports it here. But it is what it is - I now no longer book Carnival cruises far in advance. Who knows, I book one a year out and by the time sail date arrives I find I have to carry on my own toilet paper. They're changing things too much too fast.

[staceyglow]

If you are willing to take a more expensive cruise on another line just to get buffet bacon every day, go for it. It just lowers the demand and makes a Carnival cruise a better deal for me. 

Edited October 23, 2022 by staceyglow

[mz-s]

12 minutes ago, staceyglow said:

If you are willing to take a more expensive cruise on another line just to get buffet bacon every day, go for it. It just lowers the demand and makes a Carnival cruise a better deal for me. 

 

We've lost so much more than bacon on the buffet, but if that is what people need to tell themselves then that's fine with me.

 

However I am not sure that carnival is in the financial position to lower the demand for their cruises. They're in a bit of a pickle. Cutbacks are lowering the price they can charge, but they're not profitable so they need to charge more. But to charge more they have to bring the experience back up to justify the higher fares. It's a vicious cycle and I can't help but think they're in the wrong gear.

Edited October 24, 2022 by mz-s

[Pellaz]

18 hours ago, Homosassa said:

Another option is to actually pay the price for a cruise on a line where the fare is high enough to cover the cost of bacon (American and English), smoked salmon and other staples on the buffet.

 

You get what you pay for.

 

Hmm, smoked salmon was available on the Lido breakfast buffet every time I wandered by last week on the Horizon.   (I'd have preferred another option for Eggs Benedict.)  

[ray98]

5 hours ago, Pellaz said:

 

Hmm, smoked salmon was available on the Lido breakfast buffet every time I wandered by last week on the Horizon.   (I'd have preferred another option for Eggs Benedict.)  

Strange.....I can't remember lox on the Lido of any Carnival cruise I've taken in 10 years.  They have other deli meats, not lox.

[sparks1093]

On 10/23/2022 at 9:50 AM, Homosassa said:

Another option is to actually pay the price for a cruise on a line where the fare is high enough to cover the cost of bacon (American and English), smoked salmon and other staples on the buffet.

 

You get what you pay for.

I'm good with paying what Carnival charges and absolutely good with all of the food choices.