best coffee onboard?

[sartini-co]

coffee drinkers: what is the best strategy for getting the best coffee onboard in the mornings? I have heard that getting some delivered the night before is an option. It won't be as 'hot' the next morning, but is keeps warm. I'm the type that needs a coffee in the morning, soon after wakening. Are there any places on board that offer different brews?

 

[CAMICKEY]

friendly bump for an answer from somebody. - mike

 

[abitjaded]

The Cove Cafe is the only place that has better, brewed coffee. The cost is additional. It is open from 8:00 A.M. The rest of the coffee onboard, even in the bars, is the same Nescafe liquid junk, pretty awful if you are a Starbucks or better junkie. Order a large quantity from room service the night before, at least enough for four servings and store the carafe until morning. The early coffee stand near Topsiders opens at 6:30A.M. You can also set your room service delivery for the first time slot. But that is it early choice-wise. (This from a person who was always awake by 5:00A.M.) You could always try the coffee bags brought from home and dropped into hot tap water, ewwww.... Been there, done that.

Carla

 

[ThreeCircles]

The Beverage Station on Deck 9 offers Nescafe Coffee. While this is available at your convenience, I have heard many people say that they do not like it as it is not brewed from fresh ground coffee.

The dining rooms offer coffee that is brewed from fresh ground coffee and I have always found it to be good.

Room Service will deliver coffee to your room at preset times if you order it the night before. I believe the earliest time is 6 AM.

Most, if not all, restaurants and/or bars should be able to make specialty coffees

 

[ThreeCircles]

Originally posted by abitjaded
The Cove Cafe is the only place that has better, brewed coffee. The cost is additional. It is open from 8:00 A.M. The rest of the coffee onboard, even in the bars, is the same Nescafe liquid junk, pretty awful if you are a Starbucks or better junkie.

Actually, this is not the case. Take the galley tour and ask them to show you the coffee grinders and the coffee machines. The only place the Nescafe is served is Deck 9.

 

[mamo-4-wdw]

By Nescafe do you mean Tasters Choice? My DS and Grandmother drink this every morning. I agree YUK! I guess I'll need extra sugar and cream or more money for "speciality coffee".mamo

 

[abitjaded]

Interesting, I have asked many times what the coffee was, both in the dining rooms and the bars. Each time I was told it was the Nescafe stuff. I thought the taste pretty much proved it. I can remember a particularly nasty Keoke coffee in Sessions.... Anyhow, only reporting what I was told and tasted. If it is fresh ground, sorry, suffice it to say SOME of us don't like it. The stuff at the Cove was much better. I drink coffee as a treat, but can swill down a ton of Earl Grey, and the beverage station and Topsider's was almost always out of that.

Carla

 

[mamo-4-wdw]

abitjaded my DS14 drinks Earl Grey also. We were planning on bringing some with us. I didn't know they had this on board! I think he might still bring it just to know he can have it everyday.,mamo

 

[mareka]

I'm not sure what the earliest time on the room menu was but we ordered for 1/2 hour earlier and it was delivered.

But KONA Coffee it isn't.

Sailing on the Magic in 8 days. looking forward to trying out the coffe bar.

When we go to WDW we buy bags of coffee from O'Hanas

That's one of our ways of keeping the 'magic' alive after the vacation ends.

 

[dianthus]

To answer the question, best coffee onboard?

There is none....

Nescafe swill is on Deck 9 & Topsiders. Fresh brewed at dinner, but served with the grinds consistently- bitter.... Mocha Lattes at the Cove- good, but no good fresh brewed. I had such high hopes for The Cove...

This is probably my only complaint with DCL. They do everything so well, why can't they make a good cup of coffee? I now bring a small melita, my own coffee & order hot water in a carafe in the morning for coffee on the verandah. Just terrific!

Yes, I guess I'm a bit of a coffee snob. If you are not picky, the coffee will be fine... Otherwise, prepare to be a bit disappointed. Only thing I can think of though!

I agree mareka, the Kona coffee at the Poly is great. We buy it there too when we are at WDW.

~ Linda

 

[abitjaded]

mamo, room service was a great source of Earl Grey tea bags. Order tea for five or six and write "Earl Grey" next to the checked tea box. They always brought the bags. It was just Topsider's and the beverage station that was always out. I started cacheing the bags from room service then taking them with me when I went to deck 9.

Dianthus, I agree. You just cannot make a good cup of coffee 1,000 at a time... My DH and I love to sneak away after dinner for a coffee-alcohol-treat, but it was so awful in the bars. I did get a decent cappucino at Palo, came with a to-die-for almond paste-cookie confection. (No latte though, strange.)

Carla

 

[Trekker]

Does anyone know if there is a reason you cannot bring your own 4 cup maker onboard? I know that on our last cruise there were outlets by the desk that you could have used for this?

 

[CAMICKEY]

mareka - Kona is our preferred coffee but we get by with what is served on board. Sure makes the Kona taste even better when we get home. - Mike

 

[manchurianbrownbear]

I'll agree that the coffee is probably the low point of a DCL cruise. Fortunately there are so many great things to offset it!

One of the few good things about returning home from DCL or WDW is the coffee at home!