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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 22, 2010 19:16:09 GMT -8
I would think these services would be successful to have aboard the Northern Expedition on the summer Inside Passage route. Some tourists would surely like to take advantage of such treatment while on a 15 hour nonstop sailing. You've got to consider the 2-weeks-on shift routine of the Inside Passage route, along with the northern staging point, as being a hindrance to attracting estheticians to work that route. Much easier to fine estheticians from lower mainland or Capital region. Too much down time on the north routes for the potential contractors.
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Post by Scott on Jul 1, 2011 16:27:35 GMT -8
Anyone know what this is about? It showed up on Facebook: BC Ferries Vacations : Check out our new LITE BUFFET option on selected sailings between Van & Vic for $12 (no hot entrees). Great deal!^cdm I'm assuming the cheaper deal means you stay on the veggie side bar side? How do you enforce that?
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Post by Nick on Jul 1, 2011 16:45:44 GMT -8
Anyone know what this is about? It showed up on Facebook: BC Ferries Vacations : Check out our new LITE BUFFET option on selected sailings between Van & Vic for $12 (no hot entrees). Great deal!^cdm I'm assuming the cheaper deal means you stay on the veggie side bar side? How do you enforce that? It's quite easy. They don't put hot food out. It's only on the 1500 sailings.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 6, 2011 11:27:08 GMT -8
BCFS news release on new buffet items
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Post by Neil on Jul 6, 2011 13:01:08 GMT -8
We'll see how it all actually tastes. I had their butter chicken entree on a route 30 sailing a while back, and it was really boring. Like someone's grandmother bought a beginner East Indian cookbook, and tried to make do with just the old curry powder from the back of her spice cupboard.
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Post by Dane on Jul 6, 2011 15:02:40 GMT -8
Those, for the most part, are not really new. No matter how they try to spin it.
Signed,
Former frequent buffet client
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Post by bcferryfan87 on Jul 19, 2011 12:38:35 GMT -8
The "light buffet" thing in my opinion is not very good. I guess it's their alternative to what I suspect is a slower time.
First hand experience was on a May weekend, took a sailing back and had my heart set on having a late lunch early supper/dinner in the buffet...Disappointment when I found out that tthe 3:00p (as I recall) sailing had this light buffet thing.
You had a choice of all the salad things - with soup and I believe clam chowder, and a dessert bar thing with more chocolate than any reasonable person would want.
The hot side had nothing - just the empty trays with hot water.
I was not impressed...they advertise it this way on the ship, but you try to convince yourself it will be ok, but I think it's sad they couldn't have some kind of cold cuts, cold roast beef, chicken...or at least some limited hot entrees.
Other than it being a place to sit and not be rushed like in the regular cafeteria where they tell people to move along via announcements on the p.a, all I can think of is dryed out leaf lettuce when I think of the buffet "light" version. I am going to be hard pressed to go back to that version ever again, and will make sure I reallly objectively look at the buffet to see what is offered before I go in there again.
I do know there were complaints by others travelling on the same sailing, and I believe this is why some of the advertising mentions this light buffet now. I never saw this ever mentioned before. Maybe voicing concerns is getting listened to.
I believe the triple o's in this case WOULD have been a better choice
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Post by bcferryfan87 on Jul 19, 2011 12:42:02 GMT -8
one other note...people always complain about the old bc ferries menu (pre triple o's and pre Hahn era): I personally never had an issue with the food then - maybe never travelled much. The buffet in summer was always good, and cafeteria food was good. Only thing I don't like that I've tried is the eggs in the buffet and maybe the same style in cafeteria...are they powdered eggs?
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Post by mrdot on Jul 19, 2011 13:12:08 GMT -8
:)my brother wettcoast has scanned one of my old menu's from the first dogwood restaurant on the freshly stretched Q. of Esquimalt, when a full meal deal was better than any serving white spot ever offered! and you didn't have to have hahn's pension to afford it! :)mrdot.
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Post by KE7JFF on Jul 19, 2011 18:05:22 GMT -8
One of the truck drivers I know at my work has been doing runs via BC Ferries and other services for several decades and he was telling me while the meat pre-White Spot were basically hockey pucks, the eggs were always good.
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Post by Neil on Jul 19, 2011 21:22:59 GMT -8
One of the truck drivers I know at my work has been doing runs via BC Ferries and other services for several decades and he was telling me while the meat pre-White Spot were basically hockey pucks, the eggs were always good. The burgers weren't remarkably good or bad, they were okay. I think the 'Nanaimo and ' Burnaby still have non- White Spot burgers. Nothing wrong with them.
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Post by paulvanb on Jul 19, 2011 21:58:30 GMT -8
One of the truck drivers I know at my work has been doing runs via BC Ferries and other services for several decades and he was telling me while the meat pre-White Spot were basically hockey pucks, the eggs were always good. The burgers weren't remarkably good or bad, they were okay. I think the 'Nanaimo and ' Burnaby still have non- White Spot burgers. Nothing wrong with them. I am showing my age here. I still remember the burgers served on the ferries in the 1960's. I used to look forward to having one as we crossed over via Nanaimo. If we were on a morning sailing it was always pancakes. Even the burgers on the Island Princess were delicious circa 1967-69! ;D!
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Post by Kam on Jul 19, 2011 22:38:11 GMT -8
Still prefer the original fries and gravy over the White Spot ones.
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Post by Scott on Jul 19, 2011 22:41:22 GMT -8
I haven't been on the Queen or Nanaimo or the Queen of Burnaby for a while. Do either of them still have a "BC Ferries" menu?
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Post by lmtengs on Jul 20, 2011 7:32:36 GMT -8
I haven't been on the Queen or Nanaimo or the Queen of Burnaby for a while. Do either of them still have a "BC Ferries" menu? I could be right out of the ballpark on this one, but I seem to remember the Burnaby having a sort of half-and-half thing, where they had some White Spot menu items and some BCF menu items. EDIT: Or was it that they had the BCF menu, but the burgers looked and tasted exactly the same as the White Spot burgers...?
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Post by Ferryman on Jul 20, 2011 7:42:21 GMT -8
I haven't been on the Queen or Nanaimo or the Queen of Burnaby for a while. Do either of them still have a "BC Ferries" menu? As far as I know, they both do. They have the old style shoestring fries, and old style burgers. The breakfast menu is pretty much the same as all the other major routes though. Just a couple of weeks ago on the Nanaimo, they've just introduced a Poutine dish with the old style fries. I'm not a Poutine fan usually, but this one I actually like! Also on the topic of Amenities, the Queen of Nanaimo just had two ATM's installed this week. They're located outside of the Chief Stewards Office, up against what used to be the Snack bar on either side of the TV that plays Blues Clues all day.
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