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: 37

Helpful Votes: 567

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: 5 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

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Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

live near here

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Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

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

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Progreso (Merida), Mexico Did not visit port

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

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

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

5 Comments

cmglover25 5 years ago

Sorry your grandkids missed your cruise up!

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GiantRay 5 years ago

I sure hate to hear that. I just took my 7 year old grandson this past 4 of July on the dream. I’m 52 years old & we both had a great time 😳 that was his first cruise also. Now he will be heading on the horizon next summer. ( long as he be good & good grades 😳 ) few pics posted on activities. More videos than pics, can’t post videos. They need to change that 😎

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xCruizzzinx 5 years ago

I've had friends that cruised with really little ones that don't walk, and a couple of 3yr olds, and needless to say, NONE OF THEM ENJOYED IT.... I would make it a cruise "grandchildren-less" next time 😉 it cost the adults too much money to have ungrateful brats onboard js

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Mydogluke 5 years ago

Love the Dream

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Summerholiday 5 years ago

We had a cruise in April with our daughter son in law and two sets of twins four girls ... they loved every minute didn't want to get off you just never know with kids what side of bed there getting out of .. hope it didn't put you off cruising enjoy ...

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