Battered, bruised, and a little bit intoxicated - a Transatlantic Crossing updated 02/13/18 - Page 12 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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I usually don't read cruise TR's but your title drew me in and then your TR kept me interested. I'm so sorry about your elbow, how is it now? I was excited to see to see a new post. Nice to have good table mates, makes vacation more enjoyable.
Yay, I'm so glad you're writing again, so I can learn for our forthcoming Transatlantic cruise in September. Sounds like a good first evening, although you're right, that's unusual for Palo to serve food not cooked to a guest's liking. I must admit when we were there, we had an issue and our server went in to say something and I heard the resulting argument in the kitchen, so either it's not as sound proofed as it used to be or the chefs are just more passionate than they used to be?
I'm so happy that you have picked this up again!! You guys sure did a lot on your first day onboard!! What a great idea to at least meet your table mates on the first night!! We have a dining package for our upcoming cruise and won't be eating in the main dining room at all. I hadn't thought about it but now I think I will go to dining room and let them know we won't be there all week.
Sorry your Palo dinner wasn't perfect, but it looks pretty good to me!! Nice shopping scores and a pleasant way to end your first evening on board!!
I usually don't read cruise TR's but your title drew me in and then your TR kept me interested. I'm so sorry about your elbow, how is it now? I was excited to see to see a new post. Nice to have good table mates, makes vacation more enjoyable.
My elbow is fine, save a pretty good scar.
Without a doubt, these were our best table mates of any cruise - including our kids!
Yay, I'm so glad you're writing again, so I can learn for our forthcoming Transatlantic cruise in September. Sounds like a good first evening, although you're right, that's unusual for Palo to serve food not cooked to a guest's liking. I must admit when we were there, we had an issue and our server went in to say something and I heard the resulting argument in the kitchen, so either it's not as sound proofed as it used to be or the chefs are just more passionate than they used to be?
I’d love to give you some nugget of information you can use, after all I’ve taken from your TRs!
It wasn’t that we heard the argument - we could see it. And unlikely it was the same chef, since you were on the Wonder.
I'm so happy that you have picked this up again!! You guys sure did a lot on your first day onboard!! What a great idea to at least meet your table mates on the first night!! We have a dining package for our upcoming cruise and won't be eating in the main dining room at all. I hadn't thought about it but now I think I will go to dining room and let them know we won't be there all week.
Sorry your Palo dinner wasn't perfect, but it looks pretty good to me!! Nice shopping scores and a pleasant way to end your first evening on board!!
I’m just glad you’re still hanging in there to read along!
I was so happy to get the Transatlantic-specific items! Didn’t want to risk waiting until later in the cruise. They aren’t direction specific, but they do have the year, so I guess Disney would’ve had the same on the WBTA, but this was the last crossing for 2017.
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I was so excited when I opened this forum to find you had started back. Thank you! Dinner looked so delicious. Congrats on getting the cool Transatlantic-specific items. Hilarious about the size of the distilled water.
A good first night with the apps before dinner and then a nice meal at Palo. Too bad with Mike's course being overcooked, but at least it was taken care of. Funny with the drum of distilled water!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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I was so excited when I opened this forum to find you had started back. Thank you! Dinner looked so delicious. Congrats on getting the cool Transatlantic-specific items. Hilarious about the size of the distilled water.
The water was so funny. I’m not sure why they couldn’t have done smaller ones. I felt like the drum was wasteful as I am sure they couldn’t use any of what we had left, and we made barely a dent in it.
A good first night with the apps before dinner and then a nice meal at Palo. Too bad with Mike's course being overcooked, but at least it was taken care of. Funny with the drum of distilled water!
Overall we had very few issues with things not being cooked to our liking, although this wasn’t the only incident at Palo as you’ll hear later.
I thought I was bad not being able to get the updates out with your long delay! I generally get two out per week. One on Sunday and another around Thursday.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
I'm so excited you've started this up again, as I love reading about cruises, and hope to do a transatlantic some day. How great that you hit it off with your tablemates!
I'm so excited you've started this up again, as I love reading about cruises, and hope to do a transatlantic some day. How great that you hit it off with your tablemates!
It really was great. In fact, I was talking with one of them today, as we've got plans to meet up in Philadelphia in April when they're Stateside prior to another cruise!
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Sounds like a good first evening, although you're right, that's unusual for Palo to serve food not cooked to a guest's liking. I must admit when we were there, we had an issue and our server went in to say something and I heard the resulting argument in the kitchen, so either it's not as sound proofed as it used to be or the chefs are just more passionate than they used to be?
You guys sure did a lot on your first day onboard!! What a great idea to at least meet your table mates on the first night!! We have a dining package for our upcoming cruise and won't be eating in the main dining room at all. I hadn't thought about it but now I think I will go to dining room and let them know we won't be there all week. 
Nice shopping scores and a pleasant way to end your first evening on board!! 
I generally get two out per week. One on Sunday and another around Thursday. 
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