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I think I know what I will be doing before our Palo Brunch...working out in the gym. I noticed Mark had a polo style shirt on at brunch--is the dress code relaxed? I thought I had read before that men needed to wear a shirt & tie or suit.
That's more the attire for the dinner rather than the brunch!
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Glad you're away, as it's given me a chance to catch back up!
When we cruised over New Years, my daughter met a bunch of kids in the teen club who cruise EVERY NYE. She was disappointed not to be joining them this past year, as she's still in touch with many via a text group. Who knows, maybe more DCL weddings in the future?
Oh how I love Palo brunch........
What a busy sea day you're having! It is too bad the timing of the reception was just before dinner like that.
I am hoping you still get to try a creme brûlée martini!
I'm all caught up! First - what is up with your servers?? On our last cruise our server asked us every night if we were okay with the timing of the food and the timing of their service. I even remember him coming to me on Ash Wednesday (we are Catholic and that is a day of fasting) and asking if I didn't like the offerings that night as I didn't order my usual amount Great character interaction with Captain Hook. I loved Mark's hat! Your brunch at Palo looked so lovely. Love all that you crammed in on your sea day. You went from one fun thing to the next. How neat that you and Jennifer were on the same cruise and got a chance to catch up. I hope Mark is feeling better, poor guy!
Wine tastings can be very pretentious, I just did one yesterday and it was a lot of the similar info and questions, but we had a lot of first timers so he let us slide when we couldn't identify good smells. So glad you were able to catch up with Jennifer and sounds like you got some really cool cruise info before dinner!
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I can totally understand that you felt a bit out of place at the wine tasting. "I can smell wine" - that would've been me, too I would have expected Disney to at least have water there to cleanse your palate after each new wine...
Then again, as we're both wine novices, maybe we've been doing that wrong...
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Glad to hear you had another great Palo experience. I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of their brunch offerings. I love the general idea as it doesn't collide with the regular dinner time-wise. However, the food at Palo is just much more up my alley at dinner.
Oooooo, 180 days on a Disney ship... Can you imagine? I honestly don't think I'd get tired of it! But on a more realistic note - I really really hope they build more ships and eventually offer cruises to Asia and Australia.
I'd love cruises to Asia, Australia not so much, it's just not somewhere I've ever had the desire to go, but there are so many places in Asia I want to see and a cruise would be the perfect way to do that.
We live near quite a few wineries, being very close to the Niagara wine region, and a few hours drive from the Finger Lakes wine region, so we've been to several wine tastings over the years...seems like they always have crackers, or water, or both in between the different selections. I'm surprised they did not offer you a pallet cleanser! I can understand after all the tastes and nothing else in your stomachs...no wonder you were ready to be rolled out of the place!
Niagara has a wine region? Now there's proof you really do learn something every day - I had no idea it was a wine region....
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I think I know what I will be doing before our Palo Brunch...working out in the gym. I noticed Mark had a polo style shirt on at brunch--is the dress code relaxed? I thought I had read before that men needed to wear a shirt & tie or suit.
The dress code is more relaxed at brunch than at dinner.
Glad you're away, as it's given me a chance to catch back up!
When we cruised over New Years, my daughter met a bunch of kids in the teen club who cruise EVERY NYE. She was disappointed not to be joining them this past year, as she's still in touch with many via a text group. Who knows, maybe more DCL weddings in the future?
Oh wow, wouldn't that be cool!
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Oh how I love Palo brunch........
What a busy sea day you're having! It is too bad the timing of the reception was just before dinner like that.
I was really surprised by that, given the last reception we went to was at about 10:00am on the first sea day.
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I am hoping you still get to try a creme brûlée martini!
Sadly I didn't. Oh well, one for the next cruise then I guess...
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Thursday 26 February – part four: “find our server”
We headed down to the restaurant, and were a bit late, as by now it was about 5:55pm, and there were quite a few other families who were also late, and we had quite a wait to be seated, as they just didn’t seem to have enough people to seat those of us turning up now. If only we knew – our problems were only just starting…
I just love the theming in this restaurant…
The show got underway, and the first timers on our table were blown away by it, as we knew they would be!
I did feel that we had to wait a long time for our interaction with Crush, as we heard it in the other side of the restaurant about half an hour before we got it, and I must admit I was getting close to asking if we’d missed it, but thankfully not…
Now where do I start with this meal? Well, I think one thing I need to mention at the beginning is that apparently Claire and Jennifer had had Maji as their server for lunch, and he’d asked if everything was Ok, and they’d mentioned how slow the service had been, so you’d expect some improvement, right? My goodness, you couldn’t be more wrong if you tried, as you’ll see as we go on…
I’ll also set the scene with our wine. You’ll remember we ordered the four night package, so four bottles of wine. We were now on the second one, and I said to Duarte that I’d finish that (Mark wasn’t drinking, not feeling so great) and then we’d take the other two bottles, as he’d told us we could do that. He muttered something about tomorrow morning, and I asked if we could take it tonight, and he confirmed we could. He asked if we wanted it now or at the end of the meal and, stupidly I said at the end of the meal.
Ok, let’s get down to business with all that scene set. For appetiser, I went for the black truffle pasta purseittes, pasta purses filled with truffle-scented cheese and coated in a champagne sauce, and it was very good.
Mark had the sliced Serrano ham with tomato bread and Spanish olives, and while it didn’t look very appetising or well presented, he enjoyed it:
Neither of us wanted anything from the soup or salad selection, as it just didn’t do anything for us, but for the rest of the table, here’s where it all started to go wrong. Maji brought out the salads for Claire and Jennifer, and mixed them up, which raised a few eyebrows. Worse was to come…
For entrée, I had the seared red snapper with scallops, crushed new potatoes and salsa verde, which was very pleasant:
Mark had the lemon-thyme marinated all natural chicken breast with sour cream mashed potatoes, roasted root vegetables and grain mustard jus, and he enjoyed it.
The same couldn’t be said for Jennifer, who asked for her steak to be well done, and when it came out, it was pink. She understandably refused to eat it, then we had the game of “find our server” and eventually Mark managed to collar Igor, who got her another one. When it came back, it was a lot better, and while she had it, it still wasn’t what she was hoping for.
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Great character interaction with Captain Hook. I loved Mark's hat! Your brunch at Palo looked so lovely. Love all that you crammed in on your sea day. You went from one fun thing to the next. 
How neat that you and Jennifer were on the same cruise and got a chance to catch up. 
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I would have expected Disney to at least have water there to cleanse your palate after each new wine...
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