One of the good reasons to cruise is the fact that there is all inclusive food, accommodation and transport. We always eat at the included restaurants, although there are a couple of paid restaurants we may eat at in the future. As I said in the previous blog, the food was ok. Once on board, we went straight up to the Lido Marketplace for lunch - no hand washing facilities or hand sanitizer. We ate there most
days and always found something nice to eat, and there were always plenty of tables to eat at.
The Lido Market place is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There were different areas set up with different cuisines on both sides for lunch and dinner. Most stations are served by staff. Breakfast has the same station each side. We had breakfast up here from day 3 onwards. I like Eggs Benedict and after no success in the main dining room we were pleasantly surprised with the breakfast up stairs. The eggs were perfectly cooked every time and I was even able to get extra hollandaise sauce.
Eggs Benedict alternated between spinach one morning and ham the next. I took the ham off. I wasn't too impressed with the breakfast sides.
Lunch time at Lido Market place has more variety. The Pizzeria is open all day into late night. Pizzas were ok, good for a snack.
The menus were slightly different each night.
Salads were self serve, as were sweets.
In the Adults Only area at the back of the Lido Market place there is a BBQ station open for lunch only.
Out closer to the pool is a hamburger station open most of the day on one side and a taco station on the other side - near the soft serve ice-cream.
In the evening there is a Bistro that has and a few nights there was also items from the main dining room menu.And at extra charge seafood place.
There are 4 drink stations available 24hrs. Two of them have hot chocolate.
One uses the app to book brunch on sea days and breakfast on port days, as well as lunch and dinner (unless one books early or late dinner). We had brunch in the Vela Dining Room (main dining room) the first two mornings. Eggs Benedict comes with smoked salmon. The first morning both the eggs were hard boiled, and the main dining room doesn't have hash browns.
The second morning I asked for extra hollandaise sauce and breakfast potatoes. They were not very nice and the egg was had again.
Peter had fried eggs the first morning and said they were good.
Peter had an omelette the second morning and it was just ok.
The French toast was good, sweet but good.
We had late dining and arrived at 7.45pm each evening as the doors were opened. The menus were on the app. One couple we were dining with didn't have phones that would display the app so we needed to wait for paper menus. Here is the menu for one night.
The food was ok to good, servers were very good, but service was very slow at both brunch and dinner.
I have no idea why chicken parma is now served on spaghetti on cruise ships - and the spaghetti tastes like it is out of a can.
Desserts were pretty good, well at least the ones we tried. Unfortunately because the dinner service was so slow we didn't get to taste many desserts. Late dinner was 7.45pm. The shows were 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Shows ran 45-50 minutes. We couldn't go to the first show, and all but one night main meal was served just before 9, so one of us had to leave before dessert to get good seats. Next time we will book the 'my time' dining for 7pm.
There are extra paid restaurants on the ship, but we didn't try any of them.
The Lido Market place is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There were different areas set up with different cuisines on both sides for lunch and dinner. Most stations are served by staff. Breakfast has the same station each side. We had breakfast up here from day 3 onwards. I like Eggs Benedict and after no success in the main dining room we were pleasantly surprised with the breakfast up stairs. The eggs were perfectly cooked every time and I was even able to get extra hollandaise sauce. 
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