To whet your proverbial appetite however, please enjoy this picture of what Copenhagen considers Coke:
It tasted like someone found a way to carbonate molasses. I also didn't realize until I looked at my pictures upon returning home that the expiration date was over a month before we drank it. Umm, 5 month rule?
Also from Copenhagen pre-cruise was a lunch at Café Valentin during a full day tour with Hamlet Tours:
Finishing off Copenhagen pre-cruise was dinner in Tivoli:
Roast beef sandwich - what's with all the pickles having holes in the middle? Cut thick like it came off a dinner roast but all the meat was cold so it felt slimy and chewy!
Day 1 we took advantage of a nearly empty Alfredo's restaurant for our embarkation lunch. Dad special ordered a pepperoni pizza and I got the basic calzone with everything as is listed on the menu. Plenty of drink refills (refreshing ice water) and fast service. First source of entertainment on this cruise was being seated next to the table where our cruise director Kelly Rose was having lunch with a couple officers and another crew member. They had no qualms about who might be in earshot as they joked about and swapped stories of their "nightmare" cruise passengers.
Our cabin did get a great fruit bowl, a plate of "guess what's in this" canapes, and a couple small bottles of champagne.
The adult version of crying over spilled milk - crying over spilled beer! Just kidding, the room service waitress was more upset at having dropped our tray of mini bar contents than we were! Our cabin steward was right on top of getting the glass cleaned up and having our carpet shampooed. It soon meant the end of our fruit bowl though because I ended up with glass pieces surrounding me on the couch after the spill and couldn't bring myself to trust that none ended up in the fruit bowl in front of me.
For dinner we took advantage of the suite cabin perk that offers a free dinner in a specialty restaurant on embarkation night by dining at the Crown Grill. We'd heard about Princess cracking down on people who ordered more than one entrée by putting an extra price per extra entrée which caused a lot of flack from people because they made the lobster tail many people paired with their steaks as its own entrée. Here's the menu for the Crown Grill: https://www.princess.com/downloads/pdf/Onboard_Experience/Crown-Grill-Menu-Sample.pdf
Rather having the lobster tail than the steak, I was fine with counting the lobster tail as my entrée for the evening. I just wasn't expecting it to still be tiny and be the only thing on the plate! All the people who counter argued by saying "how can you even eat more than one entrée from the Crown Grill when there's so much food?" Well, apparently the answer is "you order the lobster tail entrée." Dad got a porterhouse steak and that at least filled the size of his plate. He offered to give me half of his steak when he saw how pitiful my entrée looked but I only wanted a taste of his. I had really been looking forward to getting lobster again since on the last Princess cruise we sailed that had a Crown Grill, we were told that lobster wasn't even on the menu anymore!
We did order a couple sides to share and each had an appetizer. I went with the Bay Scallop Timbale and Dad went with The Grill Salad. Not even my favorite garlic fries seemed as good as they used to. Having already tried almost all the offered desserts (not a lemon meringue person), we both went with the Molten Dutch Chocolate Fudge Obsession - a nod to Carnival's famous melting cake.
We had each bought the Soda and More drink package so for dinner tonight, we each ordered a diet coke. Yes, when you have the package they give you the sodas out of the fountain gun unless it's root beer and we are fine with that. But tonight, our diet cokes tasted weird like someone had watered them down or even mixed them with club soda. Later in the cruise, we stopped at a quiet bar for a soda and watched the bartender fill a couple glasses of what looked like club soda from the gun explaining that he had to clear the gun before pouring our drinks. Definitely worth finding a bartender you like and treating them well as apparently it even makes a difference in soda orders!
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