Princess Cruise Food Complaint

Here is a shot of our ship, the Crown Princess in the harbor at the Greek island of Santorini. Beautiful ship, great accommodations but as a hotel/restaurant it was poorly managed.

With reference to the complaint below, I talked with another Princess Cruise guest who took a cruise to Alaska and her comments were the same -- nice ship, but the food was only average, and the timing of the entertainment was not passenger friendly.

As with my cruise, all of the good cuts of meat and fish were reserved for the additional pay restaurants, and the food in the regular restaurant was average at best. Like me, she had taken many cruises and the shipboard food was always magnificent. This time she said she may as well have eaten at Denny's, T.G.I. Fridays, etc. The steaks were no better than those at Ponderosa.

What really bugs me about this entire situation is that we already paid for the food as part of our trip package. Princess, however, is trying to bleed as many dollars out of the passengers as they can by shipping most of the better quality food to the pay restaurants. So, if you spend $50 per couple at the pay restaurant, you must remember that you have to add the amount from you fare to that total This just doesn't seem right to me.

Remember, I don't argue with the fact that they open pay restaurants, I am arguing with the fact that just about all of the better cuisine is available there, and not in the restaurant you would normally go to.

Are the other cruise lines doing the same thing? I don't know. If you do, please add a comment to this post.