Our first evening meal went smoothly. We tend to find that the Sail Away supper is always ok but never spectacular and our meal in Amalfi Restaurant proved our philosophy correctā¦.
We participated in a couple of quizzes in the Princess Live Lounge and then headed for bed.
During our supper I said to John that I thought Iād seen Ernesto Constantino, our all time favourite waiter from a previous cruise on a different Princess ship. I messaged him and sure enough he was on The Enchanted Princess.
The following morning we headed for Amalfi Restaurant for breakfast and Ernesto greeted us and sat us at a window seat in his serving area. Having a great waiter makes all the difference to our cruising experience. It was good catching up with him and learning that he will be a granddaddy next year. We had a super breakfast and a good laughā¦
The rest of the day we spent sat on deck playing cardsā¦.our good friends Geoff & Caz are responsible for introducing us to āFive Crownsā ā¦a rather addictive card gameā¦which for once I can give John some stiff competition!!!!
After taking part in āFamous places and Peopleā Quizā¦in which we came second, we changed for supper and went for our 6.30 reservation. ā¦.Letās put it this way ..we hope things can only get betterā¦..we were quickly shown to a tableā¦40 minutes later a waitress took our order, no introduction or welcome only a faint apology for the delay and a grumble from her that her new assistant didnāt know what he was doingā¦.Order taken ā¦..John broke a tooth on the rock hard bread rollsā¦. Another 40 minutes passed before the starters arrived by which time we were feeling a bit disgruntledā¦eventually the main courses followed onā¦.they were so delayed Iād almost forgotten weād had a starterā¦We struck up a nice conversation with the couple on the table next to us ā¦it was their first Ocean cruiseā¦we did reassure them that dinning was usually a far, far better experience than what we were havingā¦letās hope so anyway.
By the time we had eventually got through our elongated dinning experience we had missed the entertainment we had decided to go to. Instead we returned to Princess Live lounge and enjoyed a couple of unusual quiz type music and movie themed games.
Today Monday 18th Novemberā¦we had a repeat of yesterdayā¦ Ernesto treated us to some extra strawberries and blueberries with our breakfast yogurt. We are trying to change our dinning reservations for the second part of the cruise, to fixed time dinning so that we can be in his restaurant and then at least we know weāll get great serviceā¦.however dinning reservations didnāt know if that was going to be possibleā¦weāll have to wait and see.
We did, however, manage to book into The Crown Grill for Supper on our Wedding Anniversary. We also went to the photo gallery because they have kindly gifted us a photo shoot for our anniversary and we booked it in the studio before supper on our special day. The young man was so upbeat and enthusiastic about it that we are really looking forward to it.
More cards on deckā¦itās a bright blue sky and none of the grey cloud from yesterday. We decided to skip lunch and instead had a very cheeky gelato ā¦.. itās formal night tonight , so we need time to get into our āglad ragsāā¦. More about that tomorrowā¦
In the meantime we say ācheersā to you all and thank you for joining us on our cruise.
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