Alaska Glacier cruise dinner menus

[Vandelay Inc]

Hello fellow Alaska cruisers.

I would like to find out which nights are the dressy gala dinners, the culinary council dinner, and the Orange party.

If you are on a cruise this year, please post your experiences.

Please don't write "SEA DAYS" as that doesn't tell the whole story.

Do me a favor and post something like "7 day northbound from Vancouver, gala was the 2nd and 5th nights, council dinner the 6th, orange party the 7th.

Or  "round-trip from Seattle" ... and so on.

For those of us sailing later this season, this info will be helpful to plan excursions, specialty dinner reservations, or thinking about evening events.

Enjoy your cruise and thanks for posting. (PS If you have photos of menus, that would be great too!)

[lobsternight]

My App for tomorrow's NA departure is currently showing a Dressy Night on day 2, Orange Party day 4, Dressy Night day 5.  That is round trip out of Vancouver.

[0106]

Here are the Alaska menus 2022.  Thanks to @Crew News They will probably be similar.

[CruiserBruce]

@Vandelay Inc, tomorrow is the first HAL Alaska cruise of this season, I am pretty sure. So it will be a little bit before you see this year's info.

[Vandelay Inc]

It's been almost a month since my initial posting. I am hopeful that people who have already been cruising to Alaska this year can help.

 

Based on your ship and itinerary, how were the dining nights? Which were the regular menus, the gala/dressy nights? Do they have the a Culinary Council dinner special menu?

 

I am aware of this site which is very interesting and shows the menus. But it seems to imply that the gala dinners are nights 2 and 5 (except when it isn't 5 and then it might be a different night).

 

The seven night cruises itineraries are:

R/T Vancouver : 1 sea day, 2 ports, 1 sea, 1 port, 1 sea

For R/T Seattle: 1 sea, 1 port, 1 sea, 3 port

North from Vancouver to Whitter is 1 sea, 3 port, 2 sea

And South from Whittier to Vancouver is 2 sea, 3 port, 1 sea

The different itineraries might have different dining schedules (despite similar menus) than Mr. Jett's posting.

 

What has your experience been?

[Haljo1935]

On 4/29/2023 at 12:52 PM, Vandelay Inc said:

Hello fellow Alaska cruisers...Do me a favor and post something like "7 day northbound from Vancouver, gala was the 2nd and 5th nights, council dinner the 6th, orange party the 7th.

Or  "round-trip from Seattle" ... and so on.

For those of us sailing later this season, this info will be helpful to plan excursions, specialty dinner reservations, or thinking about evening events.

...(PS If you have photos of menus, that would be great too!)

No menus - this was 7 day Seattle round-trip April 29 - May 6.

I broke them out in my live review; don't have that handy, but you can get the attire by looking at these programs.

Enjoy your trip!!