*Dress code thread "why do we have to be stuck in mid-20th century definitions of formality?..people have latched on to that point to resist any change going forwards". In a word: Titanic.
*People think HAL's(Holland America's) food is "just fine".OK, but the way that some people rave about the Dive In burgers or certain desserts... IMO the people with the least sense of what is "good" food are the ones who like crap like Canaletto. But I am heartened to see that there are plenty of people that don't think that Dive In is the second coming of hamburgers.
And the bread pudding..they move it around, it varies by ship..but part of the things is that on some of the ships they have it behind a counter and they serve you, and on other cruise ships they just have it out for anyone who wants it.
Thing of it is, is the non-self-serve version got people upset..but on the thread about it several people said that people who served themselves were getting HUGE portions, and they were slopping the bread pudding and the sauce all over the place. Another element to it is food handling.. they're *supposed* to have the bread pudding behind a counter for that very reason, but it seems to vary wildly from HAL ship to HAL ship. However, this is the sort of thing,when they are doing a inspection, that(I think) that can get serious points knocked off.
On a related note, apparently tortellini is what passes for a vegetarian option on formal night on Holland America ships. Don't get me wrong, I love tortellini, but I get what the person who mentioned this was saying.It's being chintzy on Holland America's part.That's the best you can do?seriously? Of course the cheerleaders think serving tortellini is fine.
*People stanning for HAL whenever anyone dares to *gasp* say something negative about their HAL cruise. Someone said it was as if they had insulted a child.
The cheerleaders won't accept/reject anything negative.Even when people state what happened clearly they get shot down by the cheerleaders. The cheerleaders have a hard time believing that HAL's product hasn't degraded, and for that reason they are delusional(they can't be objective,IOW).
*Then there's this: a thread about a inferior cruise line's ship(a Princess ship) that had a worse redo than one of HAL's ships.
The thread is literally *nothing* but people smack talking at the inferior cruise lines, calling it "Island Bridge Troll"(it's the Island Princess) and comments like "ugly back end" and "fugly ship". People on the Cruise Critic Holland America boards do NOT need an excuse to bash other cruise lines and other ships.
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