Once onboard the ship we needed to take care of reserving a few activities that were “sold-out” when we tried to reserve pre-cruise. We already had a Palo dinner reserved via online reservations but the brunch reservations were all booked. Disney does tend to hold back activities for folks to reserve once onboard so we were not too stressed about not having our desired activities reserved. We hightailed it up to Palo to try to snag a brunch reservation and who do we see? Susana! From Palo on the Wonder. She had been promoted and moved to the Fantasy. She is fantastic, so friendly and helpful. Susana always remembers me as Jenny’s friend but in reality, I have never met Jenny except for here on disboards through her entertaining trip reports
https://www.disboards.com/threads/f...ising-wbpc-2-24-19-3-10-19-completed.3745978/. Hopefully someday that will change if we ever are on the same cruise. Are you guys like me, you have your disboards friends, your face-book friends, your work friends, your neighbor friends, your high-school friends… some of whom you have never met personally but are still wrapped up in the events of their lives’ and all are important to you?
Susana quickly made a brunch reservation for us so we could next hightail it to the La Piassa to sign up for a couple of beverage seminars. The navigator we picked up when boarding listed where to go to make itinerary changes. I suppose now you could just check your navigator app. Once in La Piassa we registered for a Champagne tasting and a martini tasting. Rob’s favorite drink is a martini. Mine is… I don’t know, not martini but I like them ok, especially a citron martini.
https://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/citrus-martini/
This bar was often full in the afternoons and evenings. We had planned to hang out there but by the time we finished dinner we were generally ready for bed. Yep, we go to bed early....
This was one of the few times I did not see folks sitting here having their photo taken.
One of the "cool" washrooms available near La Piassa.
Non handicap-accessible toilet.
Handicap-accessible toilet, in a separate washroom.
Next on our mission, check to make sure we had a private table for dining and see if we could move to early dining as opposed to late. When it was our turn at the "change table", I stated I had two requests, move to early dining (scheduled for 5:45, late dining is at 8:15) and a table for two. I explained my asthma issue and asked if we had (as our
travel agent had requested) a table with just us two. First answer, no tables available for early dining. OK, not exactly want we wanted to hear but we would manage. Then the answer regarding a private table. No, we were seated at a table with six other people. Ummmmm, that won’t work unless you guarantee that no one will wear cologne and that none are smokers. “Sorry, no private tables are available but I will give your information to the head waiter and they will see what they can do.”
Then it was time for lunch. We really like cabana’s first day lunch. Especially the peel and eat shrimp.
Rob's lunch.
My lunch.
Plus we shared a large plate of shrimp, which apparently we did not take a photo of our shrimp plate. I think Rob went back for an additional plate of seafood but I could be wrong since there is no evidence of it.
After lunch it was time to visit the room. On the way we saw our luggage sitting in our hall near the service doors, waiting for the stateroom host to deliver them to the room. We grabbed ours and rolled them down with us. Hopefully that did not create a problem for our stateroom host. She knocked on our door not long after we entered to meet us and could see the luggage was in the room.
Next up, photos and impressions of our room.