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Carnival Dream Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 40

Overall rating:

4.3 out of 5
Carnival Dream

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (New Orleans Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 26, 2018

Ship: Carnival Dream

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 1426

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Had a ballast overall. Give Grinzz a permanent job as cruise director!

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Only thing is that I wish I knew that late dining interfered with so many activities I wanted to attend. But I learned part of the way thru that I could still go anytime and request a table. Will do anytime dining on all future cruises

Mongolian Wok

1 out of 5

I was sooo excited to try Mongolian for the first time but this was a huge disappointment. I ate 3 bites and got something else. First the line takes minimum of 30 minutes to wait in to get food, then the chefs barely put and sauce on so there is no flavor. It tasted so plain after waiting in line for 42 minutes I was really aggravated. But then I went to guys burgers and that cheered me right back up. Replace this with a buffet section with Mongolian food that they are constantly cooking and it would probably be great.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Grinzz was a great cruise director and kept people engaged at the activities

Entertainment

5 out of 5
All of the shows we were able to attend were fantastic. All performers were great people. Grinzz kept everyone engaged and is a great guy. Hope a spot opens up for him to be a permanent cruise director soon!

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
There was only one of the bar servers that we ever had any issues with and it was mostly because he always seemed like he wanted to be elsewhere. Benji was great! He remembered everything with our group all names and even folio numbers. He always served us drinks on deck 11 looking out over the lido deck.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
The only thing that needs to improve is there HAS to be an adult only pool! Both of the pools on the ship were always full and we never got in them. Only made use of the hot tubs.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Cabins are small but that was expected. Ryan from the Philippines kept our room clean and came exactly when we wanted him to every day. He would even open the door for us if he saw us coming down the hall. Great experience.

Ship tip

Do anytime dining so you can go to all the shows you want. The food will be there no matter when you go but some of the shows only happen during set dining times.

Ports of call

New Orleans, Louisiana Did not visit port

Live 30 minutes from New Orleans so have been many times

Key West, Florida

4 out of 5
For first timers you really have to see the historical aspects of the island. I’ve been before this cruise but my wife hasn’t so I had to do everything over again. Next visit we will do some sort of water activity for sure!

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

4 out of 5
This island is really run down and depressing to look at. The port was pretty pathetic and shops were small and everything was cheaply made. However we loved our excursion to paradise cove. Would 1000% do this excursion again. We swam and snorkeled with sea turtles.

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5
This was a beautiful port. So much to do and see right around the port. The island was beautiful. Our excursion with Stuart’s cove dive Bahamas was by far the best excursion we had. First spot they took us to snorkel was the island jack sparrow was stranded on in one of the movies. Beautiful reefs, fish and even saw a reef shark there. Second stop was Kings reef and we saw tons more fish and a stingray. Third stop was called swimming with sharks and they took us to an area where there were around 60 sharks swimming all around us. Some were witching a couple feet away from us. They had us hold onto a rope in the water and float. It was very safe and a bucket list item for my wife and our friends that we went with! Boat captain was very informative and knew exactly where to take us the whole time. Will never forget this excursion for the rest of my life.

Disembarkation

2 out of 5
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