A cruise holiday can be a wonderful experience, sailing to faraway shores in a luxury floating hotel. But the whole experience can be fraught with worry for tourists not familiar with the rules on board. One particular area where newbie cruisers could come unstuck is while tucking into the seemingly endless buffet spreads available every day.
While it would be remiss not to enjoy getting your money’s worth of food while away on holiday , taking too much is a real no-no. Going overboard with plates full to the brim of food is considered rude and slipping extra into your pocket to save for later is considered a real no-no. When one genuinely intrigued novice cruise-goer enquired if they would be “allowed to fill our personal plastic containers with buffet food?” on the r/Cruise subreddit, tempers quickly began to fray.
Explaining quite reasonably that they wanted to take food with them to enjoy on their daily excursion, experience cruisers were disgusted. One passenger said: “Wow, I can’t think of anything more tacky honestly,” adding: “Practices like this are exactly why Venice stopped allowing cruise ships to dock in their ports.” A second replied: “How tacky can you be,” while a third chimed in saying: “They won't let food off the ship.
A lot of ports have laws about what food is allowed to cross their borders. Also that is super tacky.” One Redditor tried to be more constructive, saying: “Eat a hearty meal before departing the ship and then perhaps.