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Carnival Dream Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 48

Overall rating:

2.8 out of 5
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Carnival Dream

7 Night Western Caribbean (New Orleans Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 13, 2017

Ship: Carnival Dream

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 2326

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Worst cruise I have ever been on, people all over the ship were complaining about the service. Also heard a girl was raped. Another women was assaulted and had a black eye and was told that the ship was on international waters and there was nothing that she could do, security did nothing about it. I don't think cruises are safe anymore. What is the point in having security if they aren't going to do anything?

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Went smoothly.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
Hamburgers were awesome, but you got rid of the hotdogs, bring back the hotdogs. Dining room food was good when we got what we ordered. Felt dehydrated all the time.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Ladies pamper party, enjoyed it. Pedicure, not much to it was not worth the 70$.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Comedy club was ok, Catherine was awful. Loved the encore theater shows, Motown was canceled and not reschedule, would have like to have seen it. Flick was awesome best show I have seen on a cruise.

Children's Programs

1 out of 5
The children were out of control, kids were cussing, and fighting, and acting inappropriate, security did nothing.

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Service was terrible, we would order things and would not get them, or we would have to ask several times, no one came around and asked if we wanted anything to drink except for alcohol. It took 2 hours just for us to eat dinner, we would be done with our main course and wait 30 min before we would ever get a menu for desert. The worst I have ever seen. Should not have to pay a tip when we walked up to the coffee bar and ask for a coffee. Service has gone down hill majorly, on our first cruise there was a man that walked around the entire dining room with pop for each person, he know exactly who got pop and what kind and then came around with a refill, what happened to that. No chocolates on our pillows.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
carpet stained.

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5
Day 1 the Room was dirty, carpet needed sweep, glass shelves in bathroom were dirty. Balcony was filthy.

Ship tip

Don't do it. Worst experience I have ever had with Carnival.

Ports of call

New Orleans, Louisiana

1 out of 5
Dirty, nasty town. Did not feel safe. Men walking around everywhere with red dresses on.

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

5 out of 5
Loved it, beautiful island. No excursion just shopped

Belize City, Belize

5 out of 5
Loved it, we went ATV mudding, so much fun, when we booked it did not see that we needed to take a change of clothes, but it went well.

Cozumel, Mexico

4 out of 5
Like it, went to Chiken Iza Mayan ruins, only had 1 hour at the ruins, felt rushed would have liked to have had more time.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Excellent, carried off our own bags, was off the ship and to our car within 30 min.
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11 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Oops sorry 😞 thanks

Stacy70    7 years ago

Have been on the Dream 3 times 10 cruises all together and never heard of anything like that.

cajun204    7 years ago

Not saying you didn't enjoy yourself but not buying most of what you said. Rape definitely would have made the news. No hiding that. International waters are not, you assault someone your going to a holding cell below until the next port. Fact.

TheIceman    7 years ago

U can't talk this is your only cruise 🚢 it looks like so how can u can compare

mikennicole    7 years ago

The passengers on this ship were terrible. We were on it as well. My sons shoes were stolen the first day. We literally were on the ship less than one hour. He got in the pool and bam brand new shoes gone. I later noticed a teenager maybe 16 or 17 wearing them. His big feet clearly didn't fit in them. My son is 11. This was our 8th cruise with Carnival and our last. The crowd has really deteriorated. I guess you get what you pay for. So much for the fun ship.

PeasnCarrots    7 years ago

jenbow, were you on Dream last week? The reason I ask is because we were also. I do know that there were a couple of domestic issues aboard. I didn't hear anything about rape tho. Just a couple of couples who got too tipsy and started smacking each other around. (Got my info from a crew member) We were actually really surprised at how many security personnel we actually saw just walking the ship at all hours of the night. Honestly, this was the first cruise I've ever actually seen them. Lol

onagh    7 years ago

Was in the Dream Sept 2017 nothing close to what poster describes. Security monitored everything!

linsamoe    7 years ago

I was on the dream in April. I thought it was one of the better cruises I have been on.

jbbinder    7 years ago

No one is mad. We just don't happen to believe what jenbow threw out there.

tolondon2012    7 years ago

If this how they fill why u mad?? Things happen all over ships..

tolondon2012    7 years ago

OMG... That is crazy... I dont know why security on the ship is so lax.

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