This morning we had the appointment with the Palladium Travel Club, which to be honest, we only went along to as we wanted to see the other types of room, and to see if we got value for money on the room we currently have. Eciel picked us up from the apartment at 7:45 as arranged and took us the the Travel Club Building where we had to register, and sign a disclaimer stating we were not travel agents, and that we wouldn't post the details of the deal on a travel website.
We met with Karina, who took us to breakfast in the Chanterelle(!!) restaurant. I just had Churros again, and Nóirín had her usual selection of different items. Karina was Mexican, and was fairly new to Palladium. She did 6 months in the Palladium in Cancun, before being sent to this Palladium. In Mexico, she could live on-site and enjoy all the amenities, but on this resort, she had to live off site. She would be sent to another Palladium for 6 months next. I think she said Jamaica...
After breakfast, she took us to see a variety of rooms around the resort, one of the swim up rooms like ours, which seemed slightly smaller than our room, then she took us to the new part of the Resort, which housed the Signiture and the Ambassador rooms. These rooms were HUGE. Each of these rooms had 2 50" Flat screen TV (I'd say ours has 32" maximum), a PlayStation. A huge master bedroom, a smaller bedroom as the guest bedroom. A huge shower / steam room in the master bedroom as en suite and a regular shower in the guest room. The roof terrace had a jacuzzi bath for 6 people at least, with a bar area, and the Ambassador had a separate shower and toilet on the roof terrace. Both rooms had access to an infinity pool (shared between all the Travel Club rooms) with views over the sea. All these rooms were right next to the sea.
We then went back to the Travel Club building where we had the Sales Pitch. A German guy named Sascha gave us the options, and we were considering it. Then a french guy named Tom who was the financial Guy came over and offered us slightly different alternatives. I'm not sure what detail I am allowed to go into due to the NDA we signed, so I'll leave it at that. We said we'd think on it, and that was fine with them. There was no real pressure applied once we said we would think on it, they were fine. They are sales people, so I was expecting the "OK, lets give you some different options" which we got, but once we said "Not today" they were fine.
After the presentation, we went back to the room, got sunscreened up and went to sit by the pool. I was not feeling well, so didn't want to be too far from the room. I decided to take it easy on Alcohol, but Nóirín decided to enjoy the "Champagne" (actually Cava, but they called it Champagne)
The sky clouded over just before lunch, and the temperature dropped dramatically, It got very windy and I thought it may rain. We went back to the room and watched the Germany vs Algeria match on TV. Shortly after the Sun came out again. We went back to the pool, and read and sunbathed again.
When we went back to the room slightly later, Nóirín decided to take a nap for 30 minutes (possibly too much bubbly) before we went to the restaurant. After 30 minutes, I couldn't wake her, without physically shaking her. Even then she just said "15 minutes more". After 15 minutes, I got "10 more minutes". In the end, I just had to say, "Right time to go, come on" and she got up (but still wasn't really awake.
We had a reservation in the Steakhouse, which I had high hopes for. I decided to go for the burger, and wedges, and Nóirín had the Fillet Steak. My burger was tough (overcooked) and again too much cheese. The bacon that was supposed to be there was missing. Nóirín thought the Fillet Steak was OK, but I thought it tasted of washing up liquid, and really didn't like it. One thing we both agreed on was that the wedges were really nice.
After dinner we went for a walk along the beach with Nóiríns camera, before heading back to the room for the night. So ends Day 4
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