Best Cruise Food
Cruise passengers love to talk about cruise food and most of us have very firm opinions about where to find the best food on cruise ships.
Comparing cruise line food, however, and rating the cruise ships in the category of best cruise food is almost impossible given the wide range of different kinds of cruises.
It is obvious that the smaller, more expensive, ultra-luxury cruise lines are more likely to offer a higher level of gourmet-class food than those providing budget price travel on mega barges with thousands of passengers.
The higher budgets that executive chefs on luxury cruise lines have to work with necessarily mean that their menus are going to be more elaborate, and as the luxury cruise lines tend to have smaller ships, the executive chefs have more time and scope for more selective food purchasing and presentation.
More contemporary cruise lines work on very different levels, where the emphasis is on value for money, and in many cases, quantity.
But this is not to say that the larger, less luxurious cruise lines are offering anything less acceptable. On the contrary. Many of the contemporary cruise lines provide a healthy selection of good, wholesome and tasty food options.
Premium Cruise lines have their flippers in both oceans, offering quanity forthose who seek it and quality for those who want a little more.
There are many cruise lines claiming that they serve the best food in the cruise industry, even touting the results of their own passenger surveys.
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and there are hundreds of magazines. in print and on line, from Cruise Gourmet to Ocean & Cruise News, from Conde Nast Traveler to Travel Weekly, ready to
pass awards out for the best food on cruises.
The trick of course, is to make sure you do your research before you take a cruise and make your own decision about which cruise line seems to be offering the best in cruise food.
Join the cruise forums and chat rooms and find out what the cruisers are saying. You really can't get more up to date than that.
