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Carnival Cruise Lines Dining Policy | Carnival Cruise Lines Breakfast | Carnival Cruise Lines Lunch | Carnival Cruise Lines Dinner | Carnival Cruise Lines Sample Wine List |
Dining preferences (time, companions) may be requested at the time of your reservation. By popular request, all of Carnival's Dining Rooms are Smoke-Free (smoking is permitted in designated areas and in your stateroom). No requests with Carnival are ever guaranteed. Your table assignment will be confirmed at embarkation. Dining times are subject to change.
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Meal
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Main Seating
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Late Seating
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6:45 am
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8:00 am
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Breakfast (at sea)
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7:45 am
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9:00 am
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Lunch
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Noon
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1:30 pm
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Dinner
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6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
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Carnival ships have both flexible dining options and casual alternative restaurants. A staggered dining room schedule, which includes a selection of four set meal times on all but the Spirit-class ships (5:45 or 6:15 pm for early dining and 8 or 8:30 pm for late dining), means the ships' galleys serve fewer meals at any one time. The result is better service and higher-quality food preparation. Carnival's less harried restaurant staff deliver a more satisfying dining experience for passengers because they have fewer passengers to cook for and to serve at any given time.
Don't expect celebrity chefs; think singing waiters instead. Although the upscale supper clubs on certain ships serve cuisine comparable to high-end steak houses and seafood restaurants ashore, the main dining room menus are less inspired. Choices are numerous, though, and good to excellent food appeals to American tastes and includes second helpings if you want.
Carnival has the best food of the mainstream cruise lines. In addition to the regular menu, vegetarian, low-calorie, low-carbohydrate, low-salt, and no-sugar selections are available. A children's menu includes such favorites as macaroni and cheese, chicken fingers, and peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches. If you don't feel like dressing up for dinner, the Lido buffet serves full meals and excellent pizza.
Staggered Dinner Seating's
A new feature of Total Choice Dining is staggered dinner seating's, which is offered in the formal restaurants (except Carnival Spirit). Guests have the convenience of selecting 5:45 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 8:00 p.m. or 8:45 p.m.
You can also enjoy a continental breakfast in your stateroom (until 10:00 am) or a limited menu breakfast on deck. Lunch and dinner are also available bistro-style on the Lido Deck, inside the restaurant or alfresco (Seaview Bistro is not available on the last night of the cruise).
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