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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 14:34:39 GMT -8
We had planned to go over for a day trip to Vancouver on Saturday.(Which was yesterday) A friend of mine had told me that if we went over on an earlier sailing and came home on a later sailing than we had planned, we could go for half price. What a deal! $20.00 for the car and $5 per person, we still had to pay the fuel surcharge.
We went on the 7AM sailing, and were almost the last car on a full boat, The Spirit of Vancouver Island. No Sunshine breakfast for us, we decided to eat at IHOP.(Does anyone know why there are no IHOP's on the Island?) After spending a delightful day in Vancouver, we made the 7PM sailing on The Spirit of BC. On a sad note, I noticed that with all the changes on the Spirit Boats, that they had taken down all the pictures that were taken when they built the boats. My Hubby was in one of the pictures. However, I did get to walk all over Hubby's work.
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Post by Neil on Dec 10, 2006 16:58:49 GMT -8
Different fares at different times of the day makes a lot of sense. It's pretty common in Europe. Certainly could help ease the peak times.
Sunshine breakfasts have disappeared, have they not? Now there's the Quadruple Bypass Special, with an extra load of greasy meat.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 10, 2006 17:09:20 GMT -8
Sunshine breakfasts have disappeared, have they not? Now there's the Quadruple Bypass Special, with an extra load of greasy meat. Here's some of my investigative-journalism from last month: ....However, I did learn that an "All Aboard Breakfast" is really just the same thing as a "Traditional Breakfast", except that All-Aboard has twice the meat. |
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Post by Ferryman on Dec 10, 2006 17:15:49 GMT -8
To me, there's just something about the breakfast meals they serve on the Ferries that turns my stomach when I see it. There's just something about getting an ice cream scoop of scrambled eggs, with a side of mystery meat, and hash browns that I don't like the look of. To avoid that stuff, I just go for the Belgium Waffles with the Strawberry sauce.
But yes, I like this coastsaver sailings idea. Too bad it's only for this month, as far as I know. I highly doubt they'd consider this in the summer, because that's obviously the season they make the most coin.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 17:34:18 GMT -8
Yes, the Sunshine Breakfast has disappeared. No more Hollandaise sauce. I remember when they still had real fried potatoes for breakfast. It was a sad day when they were replaced with those awful deep fried things. One woman in front of me ordered a side of potatoes and when the server gave her three hockey pucks she just stared at them and said, "That's it?"  |
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Post by Dane on Dec 10, 2006 17:42:13 GMT -8
Me too Chris.
Breakfast + Ferries = Bad News
Breakfast on a V might be the end of me.
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Post by Mike C on Dec 10, 2006 20:36:37 GMT -8
Well, I like my Belgium Waffles on the Queen of Alberni, in fact, I look forward to them.
My dad orderd the All Aboard breakfast and despised it upon his first bite. I stay far, far away from ferry food that I either never heard of or don't like the look of. the All Aboard breakfast is one of them.
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Post by Neil on Dec 10, 2006 22:04:52 GMT -8
One woman in front of me ordered a side of potatoes and when the server gave her three hockey pucks she just stared at them and said, "That's it?" Oh, come on. They're not like hockey pucks at all. Hockey pucks are round, and those things are vaguely triangular... It's unfortunate that when BC Ferries teamed up with White Spot, they imported the burger menu instead of the breakfasts. I think White Spot burgers are incredibly boring (why is that tasteless, sweet goo so popular?), but their breakfasts are top notch. Breakfast on the ferries has always been the area that needed work more than lunch or dinner. Hope shipdaughterwife doesn't mind the thread hi-jack, but she asked for it, bringing up Sunshine breakfasts. Come to think of it, she's probably not the only one who's 'brought up' Sunshine breakfasts. (sorry). |
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Post by Koastal Karl on Dec 10, 2006 22:55:34 GMT -8
I dont mind the breakfasts on the ferries my favorite is the All Aboard breakfast and also the Bunwich. I love White Spot bugers. I am glad they have them on the ferries and Bread Garden is good too.
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Post by Curtis on Dec 11, 2006 17:28:46 GMT -8
The Bunwich is one of the better items on the breakfast menu. I always get it for breakfast on the Queen of Burnaby. Would be nice if they expanded their White Spot service to the other routes such as Tsawwassen-SGI, Powell River-Comox, Saltery Bay-Earls Cove, and the other long routes. Would be intresting if they put a full size White Spot on the Inside Passage Ferry though it would probably be a Triple-Os in the Coastal Cafe like on the rest of the fleet.
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Kinda odd how this topic went from CoastSaver Savings to Ferry Food. Anyone seen the CoastSaver Sailings TV Ads on Global?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 11, 2006 19:03:58 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2006 21:38:03 GMT -8
This is fun.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2006 22:21:24 GMT -8
One woman in front of me ordered a side of potatoes and when the server gave her three hockey pucks she just stared at them and said, "That's it?" ;D Shape Challenged?  |
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Post by Doug on Dec 11, 2006 22:59:39 GMT -8
Ha! Triangles! Figures. I often refer overly-processed meat as "triangles".
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Post by Scott on Dec 12, 2006 0:11:46 GMT -8
I don't really like the White Spot menu. It's actually a Triple-O menu, a White Spot burger is good at a White Spot, but the Triple-O burger is more like a McDonald's burger with Triple-O sauce. I like the old burger platter that you can still get on the Queen of Burnaby and Queen of Nanaimo (probably a few others too). I would have to say though, that the menu choice has improved over the last 5 years. It's difficult to serve food quickly and at the same time have good quality, taste, and choice. Overall, BC Ferries does a pretty good job.
I remember years ago BC Ferries used to boast that they were one of the "biggest" restaurants (combined) in the province. Haven't heard anything lately, but they probably still are up there.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 12, 2006 0:13:38 GMT -8
I think that the triangle hashbrowns shape was brought in to promote BC Ferries triangle route between Route-2 & Route-3, years ago.
Just a theory, and you know that I have lots more of those....
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Post by Neil on Dec 13, 2006 22:29:17 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 13, 2006 23:28:21 GMT -8
I took in the Pacific Buffet on my trip back from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen on a Tuesday night a couple of weeks ago (5:00 pm sailing SoBC). I found the food decent, the ambiance nice, the experience just fine and I would do it again. Less than $20 for supper is not that bad. Best dining experience on a BC ferry since my last visit to the QotNorth's buffet in July 2004. I might also add that I had quite a nice BBQ supper on the Chilliwack Discovery Coast trip last July.
For really bad cuisine on a ferry I recall traveling on the Evergreen State from Anacortes to Sidney in September 1995 and was served up nachos with cheese (Wiz that is). Another memorable experience (not) was dining on the Alaska ferry en route from Prince Rupert to Ketchikan on Labour Day weekend in 1990. The food was rather like that served to patients at the old Kitimat General Hospital. Need I say more?
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Post by Balfour on Dec 14, 2006 0:29:13 GMT -8
Ferry food has always been such a talked about part of BC Ferries. I know that the Sunshine Breakfast is legendary and I've had it twice before. On the Queen of Burnaby the Hollandaise Sauce tasted weird, but on the Queen of Tsawwassen it tasted quite good.
I actually quite like ferry food, but I couldn't eat it on a regular basis.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2006 16:15:59 GMT -8
I met a retired BCF worker on the Queen of Surrey who said that there were hardly any people left from the days he worked on the ship. He said they had all died. He said he's alive because he NEVER ate the food. He refused to eat it because it was full of preservatives.
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Post by Neil on Dec 14, 2006 19:18:32 GMT -8
I actually quite like ferry food, but I couldn't eat it on a regular basis. Should get Morgan Spurlock, the guy who tried eating nothing but MacDonald's for a month (Super Size Me) to do the same with BC Ferries. See if he sprouts a third eye or something. |
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Post by Curtis on Dec 14, 2006 20:25:08 GMT -8
I actually quite like ferry food, but I couldn't eat it on a regular basis. Should get Morgan Spurlock, the guy who tried eating nothing but MacDonald's for a month (Super Size Me) to do the same with BC Ferries. See if he sprouts a third eye or something. That would cost him alot since he would have to pay so many fuel surcharges The Hashbrowns are pretty much the same as Mc Donald's hashbrowns |
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