from Oceania Cruises:
One of cruising’s most time-honored traditions, Afternoon Tea begins promptly at 4:00 each day, when the pastry chefs take center stage with a colorful collection of tea sandwiches, scones and other confectionary masterpieces fit for royalty. The soothing strains of classical music rounds out a very elegant and very relaxing afternoon.

My experience on the SSNorway
There is a 4pm tea with classical music, and proper attire is required. Location is the Club Internationale It is a very different crowd than those who go the competing Karaoke event.

Pacific Princess
I had an afternoon tea with the Golden Girls. 4 women: 3 in late 60’s, one with her 90 yo mother, plus 2 very charming 40ish Black women: one and accountant, [we went into the Dockyards together] another a school teacher. All were fantastic. One asked the 90yo who is very spry how she does it: her reply: ‘red wine, hot peppers, and good sex’. What was missing was music. The location in the dining room is not as nice as the Pacific Lounge

The best tea was on the QE2
Within one hour of boarding I met maritime artist Stephen Card. I suggested lunch at the Pavillion and he said tea is better and he was right. It made my first Cunard tea much more exciting sitting with Stephen and Ruth. It took place in the Fellini-esqu Queens Lounge with the space age fittings and bordello furniture. There is a harp player to soothe the moods. If tables at tea were near full, it was OK to ask to join, and if people ask to join me I always obliged. The result was great Left Bank conversation. Pomposity and standoffishness are looked down upon.

I also remember the afternoon tea aboard Royal Viking ships.

[ 08-29-2005: Message edited by: Ernst ]

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Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:
Cunard are the experts, are they not? QM2 or QE2 in the Queens Room.

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Originally posted by mec1:
Yes and can people stop calling it HIGH TEA!!!!!

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Originally posted by Green:

I'm so glad you said that!

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But Tea Time on Corrie - is VERY different than Tea Time in the Queen's Room on QE2...

How else shall we differentiate???

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Originally posted by Jekyll:

But Tea Time on Corrie - is VERY different than Tea Time in the Queen's Room on QE2...

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Be that as it may, it is still not High Tea.

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Originally posted by Brian_O:

Be that as it may, it is still not High Tea.

Brian

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If you have afternoon tea at the Lido Deck buffet, is that High Tea?

It should be, because the restaurant is usually 4-5 decks lower...............

Tea Dance is when a disco dance club has music and drinks outdoors on a deck in the summer time.

Regardless it is one of my favorite cruise activities.

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Originally posted by PamM:
"High Tea" is to Afternoon Tea & Dinner as "Brunch" is to Breakfast & Lunch. High Tea is that which the workers ate coming in hungry from a hard day down the mines, on the fields etc, now usually referred to as that which is eaten by children coming in from school/after school activities. Not in the least bit elegant [Beans on toast, Welsh Rarebit, pile of sandwiches etc], and too early for dinner.

Pam

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Originally posted by desirod7:
[QB]

Tea Dance is when a disco dance club has music and drinks outdoors on a deck in the summer time.

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Originally posted by mec1:
Au contraire, a tea dance is properly speaking afternoon tea with dancing. It has been appropriated by our American cousins in Key West for use in a gay context, as has the expression "tea room".

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Originally posted by mec1:
Just got back from Orient Line's Marco Polo and they set a new record - seventeen days of afternoon tea with never the same sandwich combination (yes, some sandwiches in the selection of three were repeated, but never the same trio in combination) - well done to them.

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