Holland America Line offer more than five hundred cruises each year. The company sails to ports in Alaska, Bermuda, Caribbean, Europe, Mexico. Some of company’s vessels are very large and their passenger capacities are over 1,000. This is the reason for HAL to provide various diets options for such a large audience on-board each ship. Cruise ship dining, food choices and specifically the buffets are among the main draws for cruise liners. The vegan and vegetarian options are alternatives to calorie-rich meat-based food offered on cruise ship buffets, which causes gaining weight while on vacation. For people really concerned about gaining weight on-board, vegetarian dining options can be helpful for maintaining healthy vegetarian diet.
Nowadays many people choose vegetarian culinary experience, but usually the options are limited. Holland America fifteen cruise ships added new, all-vegetarian menu, and thirty new vegetarian dishes to the existing dining options. Now, passengers are able to choose from full range of salads, appetizers, entrees, soups. Some of the new dishes are vegan! Both vegan and vegetarian menus are available upon request. Some of the options include: vegetable jambalaya; spicy lentil and garbanzo salad; sour and sweet vegetable tempura; grilled vegetable and tofu kebobs; baked cheese polenta with mushrooms; vietnamese vegetable spring rolls, curried vegetable empanadas; carrot and parmesan risotto; portobello mushroom and chipotle quesadillas.
The special vegetarian menus are available on all the fifteen Holland America Line ships for lunch and dinner at Lido's lunch buffet and in the main dining room at no extra cost to passengers. The vegetarian fare for a seven-night sailing to Alaska during 2012 summer, started from $849 per person. Learn more about HAL vegetarian options from this link.