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Your CC day sounded great. Love that you got some time at Serenity Bay and then got to ride the Aquaduck. Now I'm wondering if perhaps you should've done Palo first.
You're probably right. To be honest, I wasn't expecting to find availability for Palo and Remy so easily, so I wasn't thinking straight when I booked it (plus I'd just got up, as bookings opened at 5am our time! )
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Saturday 16 April – part six: how will Palo rank after Remy?
Then we headed off to deck 12 for our dinner at Palo. As we had been promised, we had a lovely table by the water, so we could watch the sunset and then the lights of Freeport. I went up to deck 13 to get some better shots of those during our meal.
Our server, Cecilia...
.... who was wonderful and couldn’t do enough for us, explained that the courses used to stop at Freeport, but as the beach is about half an hour away from the dock, people just weren’t getting off the boat, so that’s why they changed it to a day at sea.
The ambience of Palo was very nice and fortunately the basketball court above us wasn’t as noticeable as it had been on our previous night in Remy. It was a bit cold in there, but whether that was just our table and perhaps we were sat under the air conditioning. I’m not quite sure.
Now the food.... we went for the ai gamberi pizza with tomato sauce, mozzarella, shrimp and asparagus, as we remembered how good that was and this didn’t disappoint. It was excellent.
Sadly the same couldn’t be said of our appetiser. We went for the Fritto di Calamari, lightly crusted calamari, served with deep fried cherry peppers, and the mozzarella and plum tomatoes with balsamic vinegar. We went for both dishes, as we remembered those as being very good. Well, to be honest, neither came up to our expectations, which was a shame. The calamari was overcooked and the mozzarella didn’t have that much taste to it, which was a great shame.
We also got the Sicilian pesto marinated grilled shrimp, which was probably the best out of the three.
Fortunately, things picked up for entrees. I went for the lobster and mascarpone ravioli and I was relieved to see that it was a nice small portion, as I was starting to feel a bit stuffed after everything else I’d already eaten so far.
Mark had the oregano and parmesan crusted rack of lamb and my goodness, it was huge. Sadly, it was a bit fatty, according to Mark, which was not great.
However, things did pick up with the dessert. I went for the chocolate soufflé with vanilla bean and chocolate sauce in the hope that it would be as good as before and thank goodness, it was. I like the way that you can now pour the vanilla bean and chocolate sauce yourself, that’s a nice change.
I have to be honest here. I have no idea what Mark had. I’ve got the photo of what he had and we cannot match it to anything that was on the menu, so it will have to remain a mystery...
The desserts were a great end to the meal, even if some of the earlier parts didn’t up to our expectations.
Despite that, I wouldn’t let it put me off trying Palo again in the future, as it has always delivered in the past and I’m sure that it will again as well. Let’s hope so, as we’re booked in for dinner on our upcoming Alaskan cruise.
When we got out of there, it was probably about 9.40pm, which was an earlier finish than last night. We wandered back to our room via the Skyline Lounge.
It still left us plenty of time to get our cases outside before the original 10.30pm deadline and then it was off to bed. We would have an early start in the morning.
The weather today was hot and sunny with temperatures in the 80s. The best thing today was going on the Aquaduck. The worst thing today was how hot it was.
[b]The funniest thing today was Ciaran heading to the Oceaneer Club. Today we tried the Aquaduck And the result was we loved it. The most magical moment today was seeing Snow White with no wait.
I'm sorry dinner didn't quite live up to your expectations, but it still sounds like you did enjoy it.
I can't believe the Dream portion is almost at an end! This has been such an amazing trip overall! I've lost count of what day of your vacation this is!
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Sorry to hear that Palo on the Dream didn't measure up to Palo on the older ships. No reason for that, since the menus are pretty much the same , other than the kitchen just not being managed as well. I hope they make some changes.
I'm sorry dinner didn't quite live up to your expectations, but it still sounds like you did enjoy it.
I can't believe the Dream portion is almost at an end! This has been such an amazing trip overall! I've lost count of what day of your vacation this is!
So have I! Having done a count of it, I think this is day nine!
It's a shame that your Palo meal wasn't as good as you thought it would be. Is the Ravioli dish in the shape of Mickey??? The chocolate dessert looked good though
I did wonder about having Remy prior to Palo.....I need to check to see what order I currenly have them! Remy is on our 2nd sailing, and we have a Palo dinner on both, just not sure of the order.
I would pay the added fee to ONLY eat that chocolate souffle, though! MMMMMMM!
Sorry the cruise is coming to an end - but feeling a bit better knowing we're so close to hearing about your Alaska cruise!
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Sorry your meal at Palo didn't live up to your expectations, but I suspect even with that, it was a good meal. I can't believe your cruise is ending already! Good thing there's more TR to come.
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I've only dined at Palo for afternoon tea and the champagne brunch, and both were outstanding, so I'm sorry to hear some of your dinner didn't live up to expectations. At least it wasn't the whole meal. Can't believe the cruise is almost over.
I did wonder about having Remy prior to Palo.....I need to check to see what order I currenly have them! Remy is on our 2nd sailing, and we have a Palo dinner on both, just not sure of the order.
I would pay the added fee to ONLY eat that chocolate souffle, though! MMMMMMM!
Sorry the cruise is coming to an end - but feeling a bit better knowing we're so close to hearing about your Alaska cruise!
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Now I'm wondering if perhaps you should've done Palo first. 
To be honest, I wasn't expecting to find availability for Palo and Remy so easily, so I wasn't thinking straight when I booked it (plus I'd just got up, as bookings opened at 5am our time! 
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Sadly, it was a bit fatty, according to Mark, which was not great. 
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