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Item: Carnival Dream
Rating: 4.8
Author: TommyA

Carnival Dream Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

TommyA

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 4

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (New Orleans Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 16, 2018

Ship: Carnival Dream

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 2280

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Need better TV package in state rooms ! Everyone doesn’t like to gamble or hang out in the bars , some of us just want to relax in our too and watch a ballgame! If you pay your gratuity ahead of time , why do they still add tips to certain things ! Like cokes , drinks etc !! Example! My wife got a $50 gift certificate to the spa ! She went to the spa to get a pedicure it was $70 , so she had to pay an extra $20 ! Then on top of that the lady at the spa added a $10.50 tip to the bill ! Don’t understand that thought if we paid our gratuities ahead of time all of those tips were taken care of !

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Should go down on the price of the bubble program ! Got really tired of lemonade

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Carry on your soft drinks, don’t pack them in your luggage!

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Ports of call

New Orleans, Louisiana

5 out of 5

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Montego Bay, Jamaica

3 out of 5

We will never ever go to Margaritaville again! The place was beautiful, but we were begged for money & to buy stuff before we could ever sit down! They were even selling weed & smoking weed on the beach ! I didn’t even get in the water because they were standing on they beach waiting to beg for something before you could reach the water !! NEVER AGAIN!!

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George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5

The Dolphins & the Stingrays were wonderful!!

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Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

Atlantis Submarine tour was great

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

4 Comments

Babygirl94 6 years ago

You can always bring canned sodas onboard. We don't lug a case when we get on, but every island we go to, we bring 4 back with us. One at dinner and one for the comedy show. It's $1 off the ship and $2.53 for a can on the ship. And you buy what kind of can you like so you won't be stuck to lemonade and iced tea. Also, the tip from the spa could have been removed and your wife could have tipped accordingly to what she would have liked to pay. If she didn't feel $10.50 was good, she could have left nothing if the service wasn't good or $100 If she liked.

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jojo625 6 years ago

Always read your contract ahead of time. It states that the pre- paid gratuities are for your stateroom and restaurants only. That applies to almost every cruise line.

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41pearl 6 years ago

The gratuities you prepaid are for you stateroom cleaning and table service in the main dining room. Anything else is seperate

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onlysail 6 years ago

If you had 50 and the pedicur was 70 then why moan you paid the extra 20. Do you get simple math . Doh

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