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Carnival Dream Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 40

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Carnival Dream

7 Night Western Caribbean (New Orleans Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 07, 2018

Ship: Carnival Dream

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8820

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Want to do this one again asI am sure the waether will be better and will be able to move up some of those stars.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Embarkation was fast and friendly, I really like the staggered embarkation times.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Food was very good, not over the top, but good. No specialty dining on this cruise, Came back 10 lbs. heavier so it must have been good. Excellent wait staff.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate fully, it was very cool and rough waters. No pools at all on this cruise, once in the hot tub which was very relaxing.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
This cruise was unlike others in that I am still making donations to the casion( thinking I should ask for a tax receipt). My biggest issue with the casino is the smoking, for teh most part the few slots that were non smoking, guests were smoking at.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Abouluty the best ever, how do they remember everyones name from day one? they must use cheet sheets. Very personal experience.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Only concern on this ship is that id did appear to take a lot of time for room service trays to be cleared from the corridores.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Cabin was great, Stewarts were quick to find an extension cort for CPAP machine, We did not realize that the beds did not have outllets. The only down fall was that we did not get to spend a lot of time on th ebaclony as it was too cold or the water was too rough. Again through no fault of the cruise line.

Ship tip

HAVE FUN!!!

Ports of call

New Orleans, Louisiana

5 out of 5
3 days prior to crusie, visited the French Quarter, way too many oysters to count, Harrahs Casino( another spot for making donations) . Most Excellemt Music and Beverages at the 30/90 club on Frenchmans street.

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

3 out of 5
Rained for part of teh excursion, enjoyed the bus and hostess, but found the area to be litter filled. Would go again to form a second opinion.

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
Highly Recomend, Loved the stingrays, and the turtle farm. I would consider a land vacation here.

Cozumel, Mexico

3 out of 5
4th or 5th visit to this island, so no organized excursions this time. We just rentred a Jeep took the top off and drove around the island. WIsh we had though of bringing swimwear with us.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Fast and efficent, transfewrs to the airport went off with out a hitch.
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5 Comments

levine    6 years ago

Start booking🚢🚢

bobtuba    6 years ago

Hey sunshinel9ver, your mileage may vary! It’s just been our experience. Yes, there are people almost everywhere that don’t, but the percentage or the concentration seemed much higher to us from NOLA.

sunshinel9ver    6 years ago

bobtuba That is a very unfair statement about the crowd that sails from New Orleans. I have gone out of NY, FT. Lauderdale, Miami, Baltimore, Mobile and there are people EVERYWHERE that do not follow the rules.!!!!!😎😎

bobtuba    6 years ago

Thanks for the report. Sadly, it’s also been our experience that Carnival does nothing to enforce smoking / no smoking areas... or any of their other rules, for that matter. It’s also been our experience that the crowd that sails from NOLA is the worst as far as following the rules.

IkeDeb    6 years ago

Glad you had a good cruise overall. We are amazed too about how the Porter's know everyone's name.

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