sofietucker Posted November 8, 2022 #1 Share Posted November 8, 2022 On the Connie leaving Tampa on Dec 2. (Last time we cruised X was on the Edge's first time post-pandemic in June 2021.) The first 2 days are sea days--so you think, Okay, dressy night on first--or even second--sea day, as usual. First port is day 4, San Juan, PR. Unfortunately a short stay--we don't dock til 3pm. Many of the ship tours there are food-and-booze related, as they should be in this fabulous city! BUT. Looking at the menus of Luminae, Blu and MDR for that evening: this is very clearly a formal night! Each restaurant offers several variations of lobster tail and escargot and--the big tell!--Beef Wellington and Baked Alaska. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Bewildering on several fronts: 1. Why would they have a second dressy night so soon after the cruise begins, assuming they follow the decades-old pattern of first sea day= formal night? 2. Why would they schedule a dressy night at a late-night port? Since many of the ship's tour options here (never mind the independent visits) are actually foodie-related, you roll back on board at 7 pm full of food & rum, and...rush to a fancy meal? 3. Wouldn't this possibly harm San Juan tourism's hopes of keeping folks ashore a little longer? We love spending time in SJ whenever possible--a reason we booked this itinerary. But we also really enjoy the fancy dinner nights. Any thoughts or observations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelayne Posted November 8, 2022 #2 Share Posted November 8, 2022 The order of the menus in the app are not always correct. We recently had a 12N cruise and up until about a month before there were only menus for 9N. Then they added 2 more and finally the last night showed up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestLakeGirl Posted November 8, 2022 #3 Share Posted November 8, 2022 The app is simply unreliable 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrk2cruise Posted November 8, 2022 #4 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Sounds like they have the 5 night rotation loaded. Lobster/Wellington is almost always the second to last night of the sailing as last night people are packing etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D C Posted November 8, 2022 #5 Share Posted November 8, 2022 You're too far from sailing to rely on the app. Last week, the standard turkey & potatoes was being shown as the menu on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Now the app says something like they're working on the menu and won't show any days. I expect that it might be accurate once we're onboard. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mahdnc Posted November 8, 2022 #6 Share Posted November 8, 2022 22 hours ago, sofietucker said: On the Connie leaving Tampa on Dec 2. (Last time we cruised X was on the Edge's first time post-pandemic in June 2021.) The first 2 days are sea days--so you think, Okay, dressy night on first--or even second--sea day, as usual. First port is day 4, San Juan, PR. Unfortunately a short stay--we don't dock til 3pm. Many of the ship tours there are food-and-booze related, as they should be in this fabulous city! BUT. Looking at the menus of Luminae, Blu and MDR for that evening: this is very clearly a formal night! Each restaurant offers several variations of lobster tail and escargot and--the big tell!--Beef Wellington and Baked Alaska. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Bewildering on several fronts: 1. Why would they have a second dressy night so soon after the cruise begins, assuming they follow the decades-old pattern of first sea day= formal night? 2. Why would they schedule a dressy night at a late-night port? Since many of the ship's tour options here (never mind the independent visits) are actually foodie-related, you roll back on board at 7 pm full of food & rum, and...rush to a fancy meal? 3. Wouldn't this possibly harm San Juan tourism's hopes of keeping folks ashore a little longer? We love spending time in SJ whenever possible--a reason we booked this itinerary. But we also really enjoy the fancy dinner nights. Any thoughts or observations? As everyone has said, don't pay attention to the app yet. I tried to glean the same information from the app for my Oct 22 Connie transatlantic cruise and I found the menu to be an unreliable indicator in advance of the cruise. It should work in theory. Give your 10 night sailing schedule, it is pretty clear (as I am sure you already know) that your 2 evening chic nights will be Day 2 (sea day) and Day 9 (sea day). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofietucker Posted November 8, 2022 Author #7 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Thanks everyone. Completely agree re: the non-reliability of the app--and forgot to mention that there are NO dinner starters & entrees listed in the menus, for any venue, after Day 5. Just drinks and desserts--the important parts, lol! But expecting to see the full menus in advance, in order to decide where to eat, when. Hope that SJ may still be dinner ashore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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