Jan 27, 2008 - 4 night Wonder...shall I start?

[WDdaughter]

WDdaughter were you making a reservation for 2 people or more?

yeah cruisin, you're right, there is only 2 of us.

Thanks for the welcome JMH, I hope you get your reservations as well.

 

[Cruisin]

Was checking out the Disney Cruise line website and there are still cabins available in all categories shown for our cruise.

Maybe it will not be a full ship and there will be upgrades for all

Have a Happy Day everyone!

 

[WDdaughter]

That would be nice Cruisin. We didn't take a chance this time and we splurged on a cat 6 with a veranda. We hoped to get upgraded on our last two cruises and nothing happened. I doubt whether we'll get upgraded to a cat 3 suite, but I do hope that others are lucky.

 

[Cruisin]

I know that upgrades are few and far between.

We have sailed 8 times with Disney and gotten 3 upgrades with those cruises.

One upgrade was because someone had smoked in our cabin prior to leaving the ship and, WOW, did it ever reek in there We could hardly stand it long enough to change our clothes for dinner. After dinner they found us and the people we were travelling with in the next cabin, new cabins. Much better!

I always hope for an upgrade but it really does not matter to me. I'm just happy to be back onboard

 

[GEB@okw]

When does Disney do these upgrades and how do you know when you have been upgraded? When if you do not like to cabin you've been moved too? Celebrating our 30th anniversay on this cruise!!

 

[Cruisin]

When does Disney do these upgrades and how do you know when you have been upgraded? When if you do not like to cabin you've been moved too? Celebrating our 30th anniversay on this cruise!!

I don't know that they have a set timeline for when they do upgrades.

I think they can and will do them whenever they need to "shuffle" things around. Like no lower level categories to sell to people who are looking to get onto the cruise ship. Rather than paying higher prices for cabins they might just look elsewhere. I think sometimes if the bottom categories start to fill they move people up so there are lower categories still available

You can sometimes find out by checking your reservation online with the Disney Cruiseline website. I have heard others say that they were called and asked if they approved of the upgrade

If you look at your reservation online make sure to check out the cabin number.

Usually if you are upgraded it still says the original category that you booked for but the cabin number is actual in a higher category.

 

[Got Quattro?]

I have a room right next to the aft elevators on deck 7. I am a little worried about noise level.

 

[Cruisin]

75 days out for anyone who is interested.

 

[momtobradley]

Cruisin!
OMG, Thank you so much! I thought the 75 days was TOMORROW night at midnight, man that would have been BAD! Because of you and my addiction to being up still surfing eBay, lol, I was able to get Palo Brunch Reservations for our day at sea! And get my daughter into Flounders Reef I am so happy because we weren't going to be able to do any real excursions with our kids being so small and most of them are not age appropriate. So this will be nice that my husband and I have some ALONE time to look forward to, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I'm so geeked after hearing all the rave reviews about Palo. What is different about Brunch and Dinner other than the time? Do you still get to order from a menu?
Thanks!

 

[Cruisin]

You are welcome.

I'm glad that I could help

I have never done Palo dinner before only brunch so I really don't know what the differences are.

I can tell you about the brunch though.

They have a LOT of stuff set out as a buffet with many different "stations" that you go to.

Yes you can also order things from a menu.

You can order breakfast items and also lunch items.

The food was amazing when we went last year.

 

[melissaknits]

cannot believe I just sat up till midnight, now it's half past and every time I log into my res I get an error. no palo for me.

 

[Cruisin]

cannot believe I just sat up till midnight, now it's half past and every time I log into my res I get an error. no palo for me.

try logging out of the DCL site and logging back on again.

Maybe that will help you.

 

[Cruisin]

A couple of pictures that I took at Palo brunch January 2007:

notice that I only really took pictures of the desserts

 

[melissaknits]

trying...dh says to give up. I checked about an hour ago, made sure I could log in. at midnight I logged in and it gave me a noon palo brunch. I selected it and hit reserve (or whatever) and got an error message. I tried again - another error. logged out, logged on, now won't let me log on at all. Kinda bummed.

Sorry there's been an error. Please correct the information below in order to proceed.
We are unable to retrieve the reservation you are attempting to access, as it is currently being serviced. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please return at a later time to access your reservation.

 

[melissaknits]

That looks very yummy!!

Well, we got dinner. I was finally able to log back in. Still feeling a bit ripped off that I had a noon seating for brunch and then everything went all hinckey. But glad we got dinner. Although I probably did not need to stay up till midnight for that one, since it looks pretty wide open!

 

[Cruisin]

We are unable to retrieve the reservation you are attempting to access, as it is currently being serviced. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please return at a later time to access your reservation.

Maybe they are accessing your reservation in order to give you that wonderful huge upgrade in cabin category

Well, you can dream about it I suppose

 

[jmh]

melissaknits I feel your pain!!!

Like you I logged in early to make sure I could get log in to my reservation. At exactly 12:00am I go back to the "my cruise plans" page only to get an error message saying either my final payment hadn't been received or I didn't provide birth dates for all of those in my party. I had read on these boards this error happening to others who were then able to log out and back in and not get the error message the second time. So that is what I did. Of course I only have dial up, so FINALLY at 12:13am I am able to make reservations. The Palo brunch was the reservation I wanted most and of course by then they were all gone. But I was able to get a Palo dinner ressie for the evening and time I wanted, as well as the excursions I wanted.

I know we can try for brunch ressies once we board, I just wanted to already have them secured, so I didn't have to worry about rushing around when we board trying to get them.

Congrats to all those that got them though, I'm glad some of us were able to secure them!

 

[melissaknits]

well, it's 7:30 am est and the Palo dinner res I made last night was gone when I got up. it showed under "unconfirmed" last evening, and just vanished. I am trying again now.
Cruisin', I like your thinking! DH was saying he'd love to be updated to...oh....Cat 3...2...he'd even settle for a Cat 1.... ; )

 

[Cruisin]

well, it's 7:30 am est and the Palo dinner res I made last night was gone when I got up. it showed under "unconfirmed" last evening, and just vanished. I am trying again now.
Cruisin', I like your thinking! DH was saying he'd love to be updated to...oh....Cat 3...2...he'd even settle for a Cat 1.... ; )

Wouldn't we all love an upgrade like that

Did you click on the spot that confirms your reservation

I don't remember what the exact wordage is right now but you do have to confirm it some how.

Maybe you missed that step??

jmh, I'm glad that you were finally able to get thru and make your reservations.

 

[melissaknits]

I think that may be what happened...user error at 1am? I believe it.

I am assuaging my trauma at losing Palo brunch (for the moment - I have not given up!!) by booking spa treatments. Wonderfully cheering, really!!!