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| - It has been a family tradition that when my family (immediate and extended) go to Las Vegas (usually as a group), we ALWAYS make the Carnival World Buffet part of our food tour. This recent trip was no different. We arrived in Vegas on Monday and decided it would be a "fun" thing to do on our first night there. Afterall, we were tired from a day of travel, and we wanted to just relax, kick back, and begin the eating frenzy. Wellllllll, this was anything BUT fun, but it definitely was a HUUUUUUUGE frenzy.......but not in the way we had planned.
Let's start with the wait...........we stood in line for NINETY MINUTES just to get seated.......otherwise known as an hour and a half. The New Year's Eve / weekend crowds were GONE. This wasn't about dealing with THOSE crowds. NO. This was about dealing with the epitomy of stupidity, which created a long ass line. In the past, they had AT LEAST 5-6 lines open, some of which were actual cashiers, and other lines for using automated machinery, usually for those paying by cash or credit card, and maybe 1 or 2 lines extra for hotel guests only. Well, guess what....... there was only ONE LINE OPEN FOR THE WHOLE ROTTEN MESS. Here's the kicker, though.........we got up to the front of the line and discovered that if we had walked over to one of the partitioned areas, WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN RIGHT AWAY. However, NOBODY TOLD US WE COULD, and it was partitioned off as if we should stay away. Instead of the manager or another buffet employee staying outside and making occasional announcements (as most places would do) that there were the automated machines for cash or credit card, which would have moved the lines along MUCH, MUCH faster, they instead remained silent and let all us dummies stand there for all that time, not ever knowing it was available. I was already tired from getting up at 5am, traveling 1/2 the day, and now add in my feet were killing me from standing so long...... I seriously didn't need any added reminders telling me my body is getting old. At this point, I'm just pissed.
That's not all, though.........for all 11 of us, there was a delightful table for 12.......we had our eye on it, seemed like the perfect place for us to park our stuff, but yet........it was not to be ours. New rule..........for a group of more than 10, a mandatory gratuity of 18% was being added to the already higher buffet rate (than we remembered), and this was not the case 5 years ago. Nor were we in ANY mood to have more annoyances thrown our way. Yet, if we took a table for 5 plus another table right next to it for 6, we'd have our seats but without the mandatory 18% gratuity. I think what irked us the most was when we spoke to the manager about the long lines, plus the lines that were open but no one knew about.......and his reaction was one of "soooooooooo???????" Not an attitude you want to see when you're already pissed.
Then we get to the food part. I went here for two things, and two things only.....crab legs and peel n' eat shrinp. That's it. Part of the reason is because I can never get that kind of quantity anywhere in L.A. for that kind of price, and yes, I definitely ate my money's worth of crab legs and shrimp......but let me tell you......I had to work for every last bit of it. The shrimp was definitely in need of being peeled, but why did I have to? Why couldn't they have done it? The crab legs that needed my cracking them, well, that was a real job. My husband wanted no part of working at it, but I didn't mind........I wanted those crab legs, so I worked and worked and worked at it. They brought me some plastic device to use because they were not easy to break apart, nor had the restaurant gotten the crab legs started for me. I had to crack them entirely, and it was not easy. Plus, there wasn't that much meat in a lot of what I got, and by the time I realized the larger crab legs were the meatier ones, I had pretty much finished. I took my time, stuck with it, and got what I wanted. I can't speak about any of the other foods (from everywhere around the world) only because I didn't try them. I left room for dessert, tried a few things, and pretty much didn't like any of them. Uninspired. Boring.
All of us decided, young and old alike, that our tradition of going to the Carnival World Buffet has come to a close. We were so pissed off by how we were treated, how they really don't give a shit about moving their lines through more quickly, and how the quality of food has gone down while the prices went up....we figured that we don't need to go there anymore. There are many other buffets around town that would be quite happy to have our business.......with far better food.
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