Do you have meals when you take a ferry abroad

The laird

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We don't after a few poor meals and even have stopped taking coffee
we lug a few nice pre cooked snacks and take our own coffee on as the stuff on ship is not pleasant
 
Irish Ferries used to have 3 separate restaurants of differing price points on the Oscar Wilde. 18 hour overnight trip. We took a salad and cold meat etc to our cabin for evening meal, but had breakfast in the dedicated cafeteria.
They changed the boat to a new build W B Yeates, still with a waiter service restaurant but now there is a cafeteria where you take your food into a general area with seats and tables with people sleeping or lying on seats, people sitting drinking, people using laptops and phones and luggage about the floor seats and tables, so now we take a croissant style breakfast with orange juice and a travel kettle for tea.
Standards of service and equipment supplied in cabins on Irish Ferries has declined in recent years.

Davy
 
The laird said:
We don't after a few poor meals and even have stopped taking coffee
we lug a few nice pre cooked snacks and take our own coffee on as the stuff on ship is not pleasant
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I think the last ferry I was on was the DFDS crossing from Newcastle to the Netherlands.
Good crossing and we had unlimited snacks and drinks (including Alcohol) as part of the price. I actually stocked up my suitcase with cans of Carlsberg to take away for the weekend :D
 
We carry a picnic bag for the Newhaven to Dieppe crossing, including a flask and a small coffee tub

Santander to Portsmouth on Saturday will also involve a picnic bag, but we have paid for the Lounge Access ticket for snacks through the day. Will probably buy one cooked meal (between us at Brittany Ferries prices ...)

Steve
 
We treat the ferry crossing as part of our holiday and try to take lengthy overnight crossings with cabin and meals. Our favourite is the DFDS Newcastle / Ijmuiden route as the timing is good (5pm to 9am roughly). This allows for a really good sit down meal in their restaurant. Another good one (although we haven’t done it for a while) is the Plymouth to Roscoff Brittany ferry which has (had) an excellent seafood buffet.
We don’t eat on the shorter routes (eg Newhaven/Dieppe).
 
Always. Brittany Ferries self-service restaurants on the French services are of satisfactory quality, though the main course may be only lukewarm, particularly by the time one has eaten a starter. Fortunately, they provide a microwave. Not so impressed by the facilities on the vessels serving the Spanish routes - have used one a couple of times Cherbourg to Portsmouth and the offering is somewhat poor unless one opts for the water/waitress service restaurant and even there the desert offering is limited.
 
Always look forward to Our meals on Brittany Ferries ply/roscoff sailings mainly Pont Avon an Armorique
 
marchie said:
We carry a picnic bag for the Newhaven to Dieppe crossing, including a flask and a small coffee tub

Santander to Portsmouth on Saturday will also involve a picnic bag, but we have paid for the Lounge Access ticket for snacks through the day. Will probably buy one cooked meal (between us at Brittany Ferries prices ...)

Steve
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You won’t need to buy a meal in our experience they give you so much to eat in that lounge, it’s constant it morphs from breakfast to mid- morning cakes to lunch to more cakes to dinner, plus wine lunchtime and dinner time then at breakfast before you get off you pack a doggy bag for lunch!
 
Some of you old codgers are getting meals on wheels confused with your daily delivery and having a meal out in the motorhome. Ferry to Holland and the one to Rosscoff as Tony said are excellent part of the trip. Been to the nightclub until 2 in the morning on the DFDS to Holland
 
Wully said:
Some of you old codgers are getting meals on wheels confused with your daily delivery and having a meal out in the motorhome. Ferry to Holland and the one to Rosscoff as Tony said are excellent part of the trip. Been to the nightclub until 2 in the morning on the DFDS to Holland
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Aah, but you did think the DFDS nightclub was the Day Centre, Wully, with the sparkly lights to stimulate the ageing brain ...

From Hip-hop to Hip Op in one creaky movement of the bones and joints ... From sailing the seven seas to taking them as a vitamin supplement :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
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