In addition to free restaurants, the paid restaurants on cruise ships are also busy, hoping that China people can eat all the delicious food in the world at once.
Therefore, there are at least four free restaurants on each cruise ship, with different patterns, different ingredients and different local flavors every day, which makes every China tourist satisfied. Whenever the dinner is full of people, it is even more "a sea of people." What about the pay-per-view restaurant at this time? Are there many tourists in China?
Although the seats in the pay-per-view restaurant are limited, it does not affect the business of the pay-per-view restaurant. The location of almost every paid restaurant needs to be booked in advance, otherwise you can't eat if you have money (unless it's past the meal time).
What impressed me the most was a Japanese restaurant in the dream of the world, which was a pay restaurant. Compared with other paid restaurants, the price of Japanese food is still relatively expensive. But the point is, even if this restaurant is not cheap, tourists are still full, so you must make a reservation before you can go in for consumption.
If China tourists are curious about Japanese materials, they are not so full. During my few days on the boat, not only Japanese food stores, but also other pay-per-view restaurants were crowded, not to mention tea time's long wait for a cup of American coffee.
If there are too many people in the canteen, and many people don't want to wait or squeeze, then eat in different periods. Buffet time is longer. But most people are still willing to go to pay restaurants.
This is a completely different place from other cruise ships I have been to. Isn't the pay-per-view restaurant more delicious than the buffet? Not necessarily! Many times, some barbecues, steaks and other flavors in the cafeteria are quite delicious, and there are often long queues. Most of the dishes in other free restaurants are fixed, but they are different every day and naturally taste different.
So the service of the paid restaurant is better than that of the free restaurant? The service on the cruise ship can be said to be the same. No matter whether you are in a regular class or a VIP class, as long as you walk into the restaurant, you will get the same service.
So the difference may be that the service standards of paid restaurants and free restaurants are different, but what do I actually feel? The waiters in free restaurants are more enthusiastic than those in paid restaurants. Many times, the chef who cooks on the same day will personally come out and ask the guests about the taste of the food, but this has never been encountered in a paid restaurant.
Since the taste is not necessarily good and the service attitude is consistent, why on earth do pay restaurants attract tourists so much? Because China people are not short of money? Anyone who travels by cruise will not miss these meals, so it is not reliable to miss the money.
Or are the ingredients fresh? Every time a cruise ship docks, it will make a big purchase, whether it is ingredients or other supplies. Therefore, it can be guaranteed that no matter whether it is a free restaurant or a paid restaurant, expired ingredients will not be used. No matter how much cruise ships want to save money, the ultimate goal is to earn money from China people. If it is revealed that the ingredients are not fresh or expired, or the tourists have problems, it will be a "fatal" blow to the cruise ship.
When cruise tourism just entered the China market, it really attracted the attention of a large number of China tourists. With passports, they can travel around the world without a visa. Such a convenient outbound tour is full of temptations for China people. At the same time, the cruise ship is like a large mobile shopping mall, with everything to eat, drink and have fun.
However, with more and more international cruise ships entering the China market, China tourists have more choices. In order to attract tourists from China, the major cruise companies have racked their brains and tried their best. To this end, it is not reliable to say that the ingredients in the paid restaurant are relatively fresh.
Due to the phenomenon that paid restaurants are full of tourists, I have only seen them in the dream of the world, but I have never seen them on other cruise ships. So I can only find the answer from the dream of the world itself, and I found such a problem: all the consumption amounts on the dream of the world from Hong Kong are settled in Hong Kong dollars, not US dollars.
The key point is that the paid restaurants in the world dream (including afternoon tea and midnight snack) are mostly cheaper than land restaurants. For example, if I order a cup of coffee on World Dream, 15 Hong Kong dollars, any coffee shop on land should be above 23 yuan, and the cheapest American coffee I can drink on other cruise ships is 7 dollars.
If you travel to Hong Kong, you might as well take a world dream. You will find that all the expenses on this ship are cheaper than those in Hong Kong, not to mention hotel accommodation, which is very obvious in eating and drinking. But if cheap prices can attract tourists to pay so much money, why not go to a free restaurant to enjoy it? Taste, service, ingredients, etc. Not worse than a pay-per-view restaurant. So, what do you think is the real reason?