All the Buffet Food (FREE!) - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snack on The Venezia... Lido Marketplace
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- In this episode of Lauren of All Trades... Lauren checks out breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight buffet at the Lido Marketplace Buffet on the Carnival Venezia.
We don't usually bother to eat here at dinner. We far prefer the dining room or finding something else. But there are usually a few gems at lunch time. The breakfast is kind of meh and I recommend going to the dining room or Blue Iguana Cantina. We actually rarely are awake in time for breakfast on port days
Note that we're only seeing one of the day's selections!
All of the food in the buffet is complementary.
Apologies for any signs that were hard to read. There's only so much I can do with hungry, impatient people all around me! You're welcome to reduce the playback speed of the video to see the signs better :)
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00:00 Open
00:11 Breakfast
03:25 Lunch
06:54 Dinner
09:34 Midnight Buffet
Thanks for showing the buffet wanted to have an idea if what they had on the Venezia will be sailing in August
You're welcome! The selections are different everyday and every meal. Breakfast is maybe the same everyday. I always sleep through breakfast, so I don't really know. There's always a salad bar at lunch and dinner. I don't know if the toppings ever change.
Looks a lot better than I expected from the reviews. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Thanks for watching! I honestly didn’t eat anything except a bit of the late-night food. But it looked like what I’ve seen on other Carnival ships and I’ve always thought that it’s decent. :)
Free buffets? You can't beat that. Pretty tasty options. And i love me some Paella. AND pizza!😂 Anyways, thank you for sharing this.👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for showing all of the Lido Marketplace! 😊
Thanks for watching!
Carnival is very consistent with their buffet. Mostly leans a bit 'heavier/starchier' than the Hal buffet. I'd be excited to do more Carnivals if they announced that Guys, Iguana, and Big Chicken will stay open for dinner hours.
Agreed on all accounts. Guy's is open til 6pm so we sometimes strategize our day around grabbing one right before close for dinner. Could almost do the same with Big Chicken (closes at 5pm), but have to go light on lunch and probably have something else later.
Yes I agree Carnival is consistently bad with their buffet even on their newer ships. Luckily they have many other decent options on-board and one is always overfed and happy. I truly wish Carnival fixed their buffet issue as it needs some major uplift.
@@JohnDoe-pe6iu Just did our first Princess cruise. That was a seriously good buffet, very comparable to HAL, really good variety of choices.
Thank you! Going in November...I'll pack some food :)
The selection changes every day for lunch and dinner. And there are other (also free) options elsewhere for every meal. Thanks for watching! But I’m nonetheless glad you found the video helpful!
I am not the type to try new things. But I am going to try a tiny bit of everything 😂. My God! Everything looks so good.
I know! It helps when you don’t have to pay for it. I’m not suggesting that it’s okay to waste food (bc someone might accuse me of that if I don’t add a disclaimer), but if you really don’t like something, you can get something else!
Just returned from July 5-13 cruise venezia out of nyc.. overall fair..excessively crowded, and when i say crowded, i mean we walked around for over an hour on sea days looking for three chairs together. Mostly felt like part of a herd walking around- waiting in lines only to be turned away (aka comedy shows, food lines) Never even got to enjoy pool/ hot tub because of the amount of kids - which we have kids too but none even wanted to try and get in!! We used the HOT showers to cool off food was terrible all around (aside for the specialty restaurants $$$ but yummy and thankful for options) and do not cater to gluten. although when we booked they assured us they serve gluten sensitive menu. Some things were nice ( art, most staff) but negative definitely outweighed the good l. We are family size 7.. total bill 16k only bought 4 excursions and ate at restaurants twice. For reference ive sailed 4 other times never for 8 days. Im planning on sending in formal complaint but im waiting 24 hrs to meditate 🧘♀️
Thank you for sharing! We're boarding 7/25
Have a great cruise!
is the midnight food always available like everday at midnight?
The late-night buffet seems to vary by ship and by sailing. I haven't been able to crack the code. I've seen it a lot, although not always listed in the Funtimes. And then people on Facebook will insist that Carnival stopped doing late-night buffets 10 years ago. So I don't know what the real answer is. I believe the Deli is always open until at least 10pm and then assume that pizza may be the only selection after that. Sorry I can't be more helpful!
Do you know if it’s open for lunch on the day of departure? Or what other options are open at that time?
Lunch isn’t served on debarkation day. Breakfast is available in the buffet, Tomodoro, and the Main Dining Room.
@@laurenofalltrades oh sorry I mean embarkation day, like the first day of the cruise when it leaves NYC. I’m getting on the boat at 12:30 and wondering if I could each lunch on it!
Sorry, yes! The buffet is open for lunch and also Tomodoro, Pizzeria del Capitano, Guys Burger Joint, and La Strada Grill.
@@laurenofalltrades Perfect! Thanks!
I do not see any bacon? is it still limited?
Yep. They still only have bacon every two or three days.
I only go to the Buffet for Breakfast. Does the items stay the same everyday? How was the dining room food?
I don’t usually wake up early enough for breakfast, so I’m not sure. I don’t think it changes though except they do bacon every other day.
I thought the dining room food was great! I have a video of dining room food too!
czcams.com/video/DS1QPLIAEm0/video.html
How was the food at the buffet? pizza Did look good… We'll be on the Venezia in January 2025 did you enjoy it?
To be honest... we didn't eat a bite of food from the buffet so I can't answer that question! BUT the reason for this is that we were only on a 4-day cruise and there is so much else to eat. From my experience on other Carnival ships, the food is actually pretty good. There's a bigger selection at lunch which means you have to stand in two lines to see all of it (at dinner there is just one selection so you should only stand in one line. The other line(s) will be for the same set of food).
Since you mentioned pizza... There's also Pizzeria del Capitano that's separate from the buffet - outside on the same deck that serves fresh neopolitan-style pizza, which we prefer but other people seem to hate for some reason (here's my video of it on Horizon czcams.com/video/0rF8eB3UJXs/video.html)
We did have some of the late night food. I had to try the pizza, which was decent, although I definitely prefer the pizza from Pizzeria del Capitano. The chicken fingers were better than expected.
I also liked the ice machines in the buffet, which had the smaller nugget ice like you find at Sonic or Chick-fil-A. They could use more of them however.
-Husband
I forgot about the late night food. lol. Thanks @husband!
@@laurenofalltrades thanks for your response, Lauren… our very first cruise ever was on the original carnival celebration in 1993… We have seen so many changes… Some good some not so good… But we've never had a bad cruise… We have not been on any of the larger carnival ships and probably won't but every once in a while since we live in Virginia Beach, we will go on the carnival legend and we seem to enjoy that ship a lot… We also have cruised on the Carnival Magic recently out of Norfolk… Next cruise is on Celebrity in August… One thing for sure is we can always find something to eat and it's usually always pretty good… Not having to cook not having to clean not having to think about what's for dinner is gift… Thanks for a great video 🚢
I look at this and see how messy and wasteful people are! So disgusting 😢
I know! It was even more horrifying in person 😭
To be fair… I’m sure they were all wasted. Not sure if that’s better or worse lol