Cruise nightmare on Carnival Dream

Item: Carnival Dream
Rating: 4.9
Author: coasterking

Carnival Dream Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

coasterking

Contributor Level: Cruise Director

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 36

Helpful Votes: 506

Overall rating:

4.9 out of 5

5 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 13, 2019

Ship: Carnival Dream

Cabin type: Inside

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

The ship and staff were great as well as food and shows. Our mistake was bringing non appreciative grand kids with us and the crew had the patience with this issue. Would been a perfect cruise otherwise.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Food and service great

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Looked at sunning beauties on lido deck

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Loved Flick

Children's Programs

5 out of 5

Loved camp Ocean. Got unruly grand kids out of our hair. Those baby sitters deserve a medal

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Great service all the way

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Ship looks like a rust bucket, needs painting bad. Seats on lido deck worn, table is at chin level when you sit down as booth seats are worn.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Give room attendent a gold medal as he was constantly bring dry towels and robes from grand kids pool use

Ship tip

Dont bring grand kids on a cruise if you dont want to have fun, ours were terrible, thus instead a DREAM cruise a nightmare cruise

Thumbs up

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

live near here

Thumbs Up 0

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

Kids had meltdown here. Not much visit time with them, been here ten times or so before

Thumbs Up 0

Progreso (Merida), Mexico Did not visit port

Dull, stayed on ship, put kids in camp ocean and got drunk

Thumbs Up 0

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

The Dream has their act together on this one, best of all ships we were on.

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