Michael and Dave Kay #7 Mystery Cruise Guest and Absent Hairy Chest

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Tiki, here's a website that has all of the DCL onboard menus + some pictures. This menu is for "Lumiere's" but you'll be able to back out of the file directory to look at the other restaurants. On the Lumiere's menu there are nine main course options😲

Disney Cruise Line Dining

www.magicalkingdoms.com

This is what I would have if I were in Lumiere's tonight (no upcharge) (but I'm going to doordash a hotdog from 5 Guys😋):

Gaston's" Escargots Gratinés
Herb-marinated Snails with Finely Chopped Mushrooms, topped with Garlic Butter
Mrs. Potts" French Onion Soup
With Gruyère Cheese Crouton
Aged Angus Grilled Beef Tenderloin
On Olive-Oil Smashed Potatoes, Bacon-wrapped Green Beans, and mustard madeira sauce
Grand Marnier Soufflé
With Vanilla Sauce
 
T-Rexx said:
Now don't laugh at me, but I have been on 12 Disney Cruises. I have never been on another cruise line, but we have been looking into it recently. However, my understanding based upon being an experienced overeater at 5 Diamond and 3 Michelin Star restaurants and many other really good restaurants/resorts: Disney Cruise food in the rotational dining rooms for evening meals (no upcharge, included in the high cruise price) is top notch. My first cruise on DCL I was blown away by the evening meals. I've seen a number of cruise reviewers compare DCL food to food on other cruise lines and they say this: DCL is not trying to force you into upcharge dining experiences by serving blah food in the standard dining venues, but that seems to be the game plan with many other cruise lines.

Noteworthy: Michael always raves about Cabanas on DCL. THAT is standard cruise food, buffet stuff, it's good, but it's nothing too special; I rarely eat there. At least one of the rotational restaurants is open for lunch so we go there (it's a lot quieter and the food is a lot better and no upcharge:love:). Every time michael raves about Cabanas I want to 🤜🤜🤜🤜🤜

All of the DCL ships have a Palo restaurant -- tremendous brunch and really good dinners for a modest upcharge (about $45/person). The two larger DCL ships have Remy restaurants which are superb ($75 brunch/$125 dinner). Michael likes the Palo brunch, which is the correct call, but he did not like his Remy dinner, that's an idiotic call and I loathe Michael's immature palate.
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I have been on 13 DCL cruises so am right there with ya! I have done NCL & Carnival once each and found that the food in the included areas to be similar but DCL main dining is nicer. They definitely get the win for their service. In my experience, the service is what takes everything over the top. I agree that Cabanas is pretty standard buffet food, too.

I love DCL but it does get quite repetitive so I want to check out other lines. Michael's video seemed like he was dying to be back on Disney and didn't really showcase much, but most of us don't really expect it from him anymore. And my party days are far behind me at this point in life (with an occasional reappearance) but he is such an uptight wet blanket and is so awkward.

canadian said:
Michael wasn't overjoyed with a lot of the food on RCL, but don't forget, the cruise he went on just before COVID he got slammed for being negative about all the food on that one too!
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That is a good point. I forgot about it. He hasn't really been enjoying a lot of food for a while now because he has to have so much sugar to enjoy anything. Not trying to be snarky at all. That is no joke. Been there and it is not healthy at all.
 
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PeanutButterCup28 said:
:rolleyes: His mom really is his dream Disney Princess.
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My parents passed away when I was pretty young, so I'm asking this out of curiosity. Is the relationship Michael has with his mother even close to being normal? He's in his 30s. She films YouTube videos with him, they go to the parks together quite frequently, they seemingly live together, and now they cruise together. That seems odd. I know it's probably normal in KayLand though.
 
cheshiretail21 said:
I lost it here:
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What the hell is he doing? The Macarena?
 
Whatthevlog said:
My parents passed away when I was pretty young, so I'm asking this out of curiosity. Is the relationship Michael has with his mother even close to being normal? He's in his 30s. She films YouTube videos with him, they go to the parks together quite frequently, they seemingly live together, and now they cruise together. That seems odd. I know it's probably normal in KayLand though.
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No. No it’s not. Not even close.
 
Whatthevlog said:
My parents passed away when I was pretty young, so I'm asking this out of curiosity. Is the relationship Michael has with his mother even close to being normal? He's in his 30s. She films YouTube videos with him, they go to the parks together quite frequently, they seemingly live together, and now they cruise together. That seems odd. I know it's probably normal in KayLand though.
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I wish my mom & dad were still alive to take to WDW or anywhere. That's normal I think. If there is a family business it would be normal to work together on it. What is not normal is 1) mom feeding into michael's egotism/narcissism and 2) both of them thinking that michael's business (filming Michael play and meals, including michael's softcore romps, babbling non-stop nonsense) is a viable venture worth spending hours on. Neither one of them exhibits the slightest amount of business sense. Mom supporting her son's poor eating/drinking habits is a huge NO. Michael has deteriorated noticeably in the nearly 3 years he has lived in FL. She can't have not noticed michael's decline, they have a gazillion pictures of michael over time.
 
TikiMeerkat said:
I know a lot of y’all have been on these cruises and I never have, so I’m genuinely curious here. But it’s really, really hard for me to believe that RCL’s food is such a big step down from DCL’s that Michael would have something negative to say about almost everything on the former yet virtually zero negative comments on the latter. It’s all cruise food, isn’t it? Unless you’re in a specialty restaurant with an upcharge, are the two lines’ food offerings really all that different? It certainly looks similar on camera.

Even Cabanas vs. Windjammer — they’re both mass-catered cruise buffets, and on camera the food looks pretty much the same. Yet Michael has composed sonnets about how fresh and delicious the (frozen, Krispy Kreme) donuts are at Cabanas, but said a lot of the things at Windjammers were flavorless and disappointing.

Someone with cruise experience please tell me — is there that big of a food quality gap between the two lines? Or does Michael just subconsciously add points for Disney magic?
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RCCL has great food….in their specialty upcharge venues. The main dining room is just meh in my opinion, and Mikey clearly isn’t shelling out his own money for the upcharge restaurants.

Been cruising DCL for over 20 years and food is consistently good, but can be a bit on the “safe side” for foodies like myself. After recent experience, I have to say the cruise line with the best food right now is Virgin Voyages….everything there was incredible (with no kids to pander to).

Actually I would love to see Mikey review Virgin, with all their fitness classes, booze everywhere, drag shows 🤣
 
Michael's live stream Q&A: To quote gal pal Nancy Reagan: Just say NO!!!
There are about 180 watching that ridiculous program (some might be you! I'm not opposed to a bit of rage watching), but that means that 7,929,821,325 people are not watching.
 
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