Palo question with two couples travelling together

[yazee1]

Our friends are thinking about cruising with us next year, and we have a question about booking the Palo. If we were paying for our reservations separately, staying in separate rooms there would be no question as to whether both couples would be able to book the Palo on their own. It may be that I am reserving and paying for the rooms on my credit card but their names would be listed for one room and ours on another. Are we considered one reservation since I payed for both rooms and therefore get only one visit to Palo?

 

[lbgraves]

No, each stateroom can book seperately. You can also each book for a party of 4 if you wanted to dine there together two nights I think.

 

[savsawmom]

We cruise with friends and we each book Palo for 4 (so we get twice a cruise) and one brunch. The only issue we came up against was the REAS -- we both did it and had to do the turn-down service the first visit to Palo.

Once you're there, talk to the server too, ours (Francesia) told us that she had "openings" on other nights and we were welcome to come up and dine then too . . . unfortunately we didn't have time, otherwise we definately would have opted for the "Palo Rotation", LOL!

 

[jrabbit]

No, each stateroom can book seperately. You can also each book for a party of 4 if you wanted to dine there together two nights I think.

I think that you used to be able to do this. Reciently someone posted a similar question / comment and now the ressies at Palo require the room number of everyone in the party and it counts as your 1 ressie. That way you're not able to book 2 nights there (initially) because you have "two rooms". This way more people have a chance to experience Palo.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Our friends are thinking about cruising with us next year, and we have a question about booking the Palo. If we were paying for our reservations separately, staying in separate rooms there would be no question as to whether both couples would be able to book the Palo on their own. It may be that I am reserving and paying for the rooms on my credit card but their names would be listed for one room and ours on another. Are we considered one reservation since I payed for both rooms and therefore get only one visit to Palo?

We sailed on the Magic on 2/5/05 with a friend staying in a separate stateroom. We asked if we could do the Palo twice (once under our stateroom # and once under hers) but we were told no. They didn't question us to how many adults were in our stateroom, so if you just say you want a ressie for 4 and then your friend gets in line for another ressie for 4, they won't know the difference. The reason they do it that way, though, is for more people to be able to experience Palo.

Stacy
(Dreaming of the chocolate souffle now!)

 

[jrabbit]

They didn't question us to how many adults were in our stateroom, so if you just say you want a ressie for 4 and then your friend gets in line for another ressie for 4, they won't know the difference.

Ah.. but the computer knows that there are NOT 4 adults in your room. You might be in for a nasty surprise the second night you go.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

Ah.. but the computer knows that there are NOT 4 adults in your room. You might be in for a nasty surprise the second night you go.

Except for they don't put them in a computer - the ressies are in a date book. And if you change, they just erase with an old fashioned eraser. In any case, it worked for us -- we did two Palo brunches and one dinner (although we could have done two - they offered my friend a ressie for dinner but she declined).

Stacy

 

[glindamood]

On our September Magic cruise we had brunch twice and dinner once - brunch was booked under two different rooms.

 

[yazee1]

I understand about making the Palo available to as many people as possible. If I was allowed two reservations and I knew another party never got one (bad luck or not knowing they should have queued up early), I'd forego my second reservation in a second, but theoretically, the idea that one travelling party regardless of its size gets one reservation is flawed. If one travelling party took up 6 rooms instead of just two, they would be just as restricted as I am with our party taking up two rooms.

Thanks for the clarification on the Palo policy.