Dining

Most cruise ship buffet guides show you a photo of the Windjammer’s dessert case captioned “the smorgasbord!” or spend six paragraphs on Royal Caribbean’s viral Washy Washy guy — fun, sure, always a good time, but none of it tells you where to actually eat or which ship handles a buffet line better than the…

Let’s talk about cruise line specialty restaurants — one of the most hotly debated topics in cruising. Are they worth the extra charge? Which ones are genuinely great and which ones are overpriced disappointments? And if you can only afford one specialty dinner per cruise — which cruise line and which restaurant should you pick?…