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Very neat you got to chat one on one with the Captain! Other guests loss is your gain I guess.
Gosh how I love Palo. This is sure to be another wonderful meal!
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I agree totally with you that the CC status should be based on nights not # of cruises. I think that is the way most other cruise lines do it. I know that is the way on Royal Caribbean. We are advancing much more quickly there than on Disney. Nearly all of our cruises are 7 or more nights. When we sailed on Celebrity, we even gained points for the nights spent on the land portion of our land/sea package.
I agree totally with you that the CC status should be based on nights not # of cruises. I think that is the way most other cruise lines do it. I know that is the way on Royal Caribbean. We are advancing much more quickly there than on Disney. Nearly all of our cruises are 7 or more nights. When we sailed on Celebrity, we even gained points for the nights spent on the land portion of our land/sea package.
Wow, that is impressive, compared to Disney and I'm willing to bet that land portions of a Disney vacation probably cost more....
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I can't get over the attendance for the CC reception but it certainly worked to your advantage! It sounds like you really enjoyed your time with the Cruise Director and Captain. I love the ambiance of Palo and the food selection looked delicious!
You have a very valid point regarding Gold and Platinum membership as it shouldn't be the amount of cruises you take but the quantity of cruise days which makes more sense! You've obviously paid more than someone who does just 3-4 day cruises.
The immense brunch spread looks amazing once again and it looks like it matches or tops the Cali on this! Which one do you prefer?
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You have a very valid point regarding Gold and Platinum membership as it shouldn't be the amount of cruises you take but the quantity of cruise days which makes more sense! You've obviously paid more than someone who does just 3-4 day cruises.
I know, and that's the frustrating thing. I give up moaning about it to Disney though, as I've never had a response to all the times I've written it down in my comments, so I doubt they'll ever change the system.
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The immense brunch spread looks amazing once again and it looks like it matches or tops the Cali on this! Which one do you prefer?
Palo definitely. Don't get me wrong, the Cali Grill one was lovely, but there's just much more selection at Palo.
Here’s what I got on my first visit to the Palo buffet – a lot of seafood here, along with marinated mushrooms, mozzarella and tomatoes, feta cheese with eggplant and tomatoes, and the slightly odd blue cheese and walnut bread, which was about as strange as it sounded.
Mark’s selection wasn’t too different to mine…
I went back to sample the cheese selection…
.. and although I didn’t get a photo of it, Mark had seconds as well – I promise!
I had to get up to use the restrooms during the meal, and wanted to get a shot of them. When I arrived, there was a cleaner in there. They were playing “Be Our Guest”, and she was singing along. I said “caught you!” and smiled at her and said “don’t worry, I was planning on taking some photos in here”, and she told me she’d leave, so I could get them. Very sweet of her!
Finally I was able to uncover which ship was outside…
We’d been surprised when we first sat down at our table, and found menus waiting for us. Franco told us this had only been done for the last three months, but it makes sense, as now you don’t have to allocate space to displaying all of your entrée items…
When I got back to the table, the first of our selections was delivered a moment later. It was as if they were waiting for me to return. Oh hang on, they probably were! It was eggs benedict with smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce. I was a little disappointed that the egg wasn’t more runny, which is how I like it, but the hollandaise sauce was very tasty, and you could tell it was homemade.
We both ordered a second selection. I wanted the rollatini melanzane, made up of lightly breaded baked eggplant filled with prosciutto, sweet ricotta and smoked mozzarella, served on a Toscana sauce, and drizzled with aged balsamic Modena. I wanted it, but obviously without the prosciutto. At first Franco told me he didn’t think that would be possible, but he said he’d double check, and I could have it without. However, I was really disappointed in it. I felt it was very heavy, difficult to cut, and I felt I could still taste prosciutto somewhere in it.
Mark had the Parmesan-crusted chicken breast topped with a San Marzano tomato basil sauce and mozzarella cheese, served on a creamy Arborio rice risotto. His comment when it arrived? I think the chicken got a bit flattened!
Once we were done with our entrees, we made our way over to the dessert buffet, and I had a few selections:
Of them, the tiramisu was the most disappointing, and I seem to remember that being the case last time as well. I did like all the others, which was at least something…
Mark went for a couple of different options to me:
And then that was it, we were out! Franco seemed surprised, but I figured we’d done quite well with how much we’d managed to consume.
He insisted on escorting us out of the restaurant (I think just to double check we didn’t want more to eat ) and got a couple of photos of us on the way out. I have noticed how amenable Crew Members have been this cruise to getting photos, which is really nice to see, as there is no way we were going to pay for a cruise photo package. They are just way too expensive!
On the way out, I asked if I could take a photo of the gold Remy that I forgot to photograph last night, but I was in for a bit of a shock when I saw it in the daylight – he’s crystal! It must’ve been how they had the lighting on him last night that made him look gold… very impressive.
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You've obviously paid more than someone who does just 3-4 day cruises.
Which one do you prefer?
Palo's brunch looks quite inviting! 
It was eggs benedict with smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce. I was a little disappointed that the egg wasn’t more runny, which is how I like it, but the hollandaise sauce was very tasty, and you could tell it was homemade. 
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