Midnight buffet?

Do any cruise lines still regularly offer a midnight buffet on most itineraries? I believe Carnival does on their longer Carnival Journeys cruises but I'm curious as to whether anyone else does. I know Royal also has late-night pool parties that sometimes include an outdoor buffet but I'm generally referring to something in the ship's actual buffet. I never cruised back when this was popular and I wish it was still a common thing!

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Theres an "expense" associated with EVERYTHING on board...including the pens. If you've never experienced it, you probably wouldn't notice something isn't done anymore or its missing. mebbe they'll ban stewards from making towel critters...takes too long..

Those late night buffets must have been the sight but the waste of food and the expense associated with it must have caused it demise.

Yeh, but further back on NCL than I care to admit. No longer...and there used to be midnite choc-o-holic thangs too...interestingly it was most greyheads that went. including us. then they stopped that too. I don't think there is anything going on that late. we usually stop at the buffet after the late show(s) and there are always folks there, including some crew and entertainers. theres food too...dunno how much of it is leftovers...not that it matters...whole different atmosphere in Jurassic park that late. starting with its QUIET,,,we tend to linger, regroup, feed ourselves yet again, stop off for a nitecap, head for the cabin, bed turned down, fresh ice, and a towel critter...order our breakfast for early the following morning and turn in...and prepare to do it all again and again and again...we just came off BREAKAWAY 2 months or so ago...feels like 2 years....

Yes there are late nite pool parties, and sometimes we attend..but they open the cages for the late nite feedings, and so we don't stay long..watching folks who shouldn't drink drink, well.....its entertaining for about 15 minutes...

I don't know, but we only made it to one when they were a regular thing... and we didn't manage to see it when on the Journeys cruise in February. They would open it up to photos at 11:30 PM and then open it for eating. Mostly extreme night owls and drunks were around for the eating part. All that work often went to waste (waist as well).

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