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[HAL’s food is good]
Oct. 17th, 2020 10:02 amFred Olsen may have them beat-they have a wide variety of entrees available at the MDR(main dining room) don’t know about their lido though.
Not that I’m cruising again but I do find this interesting.And it’s surprising(and NOT surprising)that people’s tastebuds are attuned to HAL’s food.Part of why I’ve liked trying other cruise lines(admittedly only Princess.. coffee in the Lido was TERRIBLE but the food was good.Like,I ordered the same thing several times in the MDR (Tri tip which had a chimichurri sauce-one of the entrees that they had every day.)HAL does that too-they have a couple of things that I would always order because they were THAT good. HAL has some things in the Lido that I like-a couple of cruises ago I discovered the salad bar And I also LOVED the station in the Lido that had a different type of food-usually from South Asia-one day it might be Indian food, the next Thai-both of which I love-there was some shrimp I had on our most recent cruise that was CRAZY spicy-and I like spice!
By and large I like HAL’s food but there have been a few duds.The first cruise we ever went on with HAL I remember a particularly bad soup. But 99% of the time:delicious!
*One of the most curmudgeonly posters said this:All I can see is that we have a lot of doctors here
(Ain’t that the truth.There was someone who was a self-proclaimed expert on anything medical who was right there with their “opinion”. They would also use the same phrases in their posts(“New Coke” was a favourite of theirs. )And it got to the point that even when they would post something they would get ripped a new one. TBH it WAS annoying. Annoying like some of the other posters I could name but won’t. They haven’t posted for a long time so maybe they got banned,I don’t know. There are quite a few people who I wonder about because they were trying to be high-post-count-wonders and asserting their authority.. and some of them are still posting on the Cruise Critic Hal boards.
Not that I’m cruising again but I do find this interesting.And it’s surprising(and NOT surprising)that people’s tastebuds are attuned to HAL’s food.Part of why I’ve liked trying other cruise lines(admittedly only Princess.. coffee in the Lido was TERRIBLE but the food was good.Like,I ordered the same thing several times in the MDR (Tri tip which had a chimichurri sauce-one of the entrees that they had every day.)HAL does that too-they have a couple of things that I would always order because they were THAT good. HAL has some things in the Lido that I like-a couple of cruises ago I discovered the salad bar And I also LOVED the station in the Lido that had a different type of food-usually from South Asia-one day it might be Indian food, the next Thai-both of which I love-there was some shrimp I had on our most recent cruise that was CRAZY spicy-and I like spice!
By and large I like HAL’s food but there have been a few duds.The first cruise we ever went on with HAL I remember a particularly bad soup. But 99% of the time:delicious!
*One of the most curmudgeonly posters said this:All I can see is that we have a lot of doctors here
(Ain’t that the truth.There was someone who was a self-proclaimed expert on anything medical who was right there with their “opinion”. They would also use the same phrases in their posts(“New Coke” was a favourite of theirs. )And it got to the point that even when they would post something they would get ripped a new one. TBH it WAS annoying. Annoying like some of the other posters I could name but won’t. They haven’t posted for a long time so maybe they got banned,I don’t know. There are quite a few people who I wonder about because they were trying to be high-post-count-wonders and asserting their authority.. and some of them are still posting on the Cruise Critic Hal boards.
