Cassie Z

Daylight Robbery

La Vue Floating Restaurant is nothing more than day light robbery...and that is a polite statement. We organised to go on the so called "5 star fine dining experience" cruise for my partners mothers birthday and what a disappointment it was from start to finish. First impressions - On arrival you are expected to wait in a parking lot surrounded by rusty containers and bits and pieces of boats lying all over the place and a dodgy building until 18:00 when you are allowed to board the boat (with great difficulty if you have decided to wear shoes to match your so called "fine dining experience") Once on the boat you are asked your name and shown to your table. By this time it is about 18:30 and if you are me you are very ready for a drink... Our waitress, Cheryllin Louw (I have specifically mentioned her name as she was the only pleasant thing about our whole experience on the cruise and made our experience with La Vue that slight bit more bearable. Thank you very much Cheryllin. La Vue should be very proud to have a young lady like you on their team!) came to introduce herself and give us the drinks menu. As we opened the menu to the first page, the ****tails, I just about lost my jaw in the ocean and fell off my tattered bar stool when I saw the price of them. R95 FOR A SINGLE ****TAIL (I have posted a picture of the drinks menu so that anyone who may want to go on this cruise and have a good time can maybe reconsider and not be like us clueless, unlucky sods). My partner and I were so gob smacked that we even made the assumption, that based on the prices of them, they must have been jugs and that it could not have been possible for a single ****tail to be that ridiculously priced, but how wrong we were!!! While trying to decide which of the hideously over priced drinks we would bite the bullet for, the gentlemen at the table next to us order a single Bourbon which was barely half of a shot let alone a single. Poor guys! So for those of you who don't know, the cruise is suppose to set sail at 19:00 for your dining experience to take place on the water. Our cruise only set sail at 8:30 and we were back before 22:00. The starter we received was 1 minute chicken kebab. The main was a buffet with a mutton curry that had the cheapest cuts anyone could possibly find in it, the roast beef was tough and the so called basil pesto pasta was merely macaroni and white sauce...not even a cheese sauce. Our dessert was a frozen solid chocolate dessert (I ate mine like a ice lolly). For R550 per person and disgustingly priced drinks on top of that, one would expect exceptional food and service - from management, which was non existent. Also something to note before considering setting sail on this "exclusive cruise" is that the toilets smell terrible and the doors barely close, let alone lock and the soap does not foam at all so washing with it is a joke. So if you're a hygene freak like me, you'd more than likely not be prepared to use them. I was absolutely appalled by our experience on the La Vue Floating Restaurant and I will most certainly NEVER do it again. La Vue, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You are thieves!