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Carnival Dream Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 4
Helpful Votes: 75

Overall rating:

2.5 out of 5
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Carnival Dream

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 07, 2022

Ship: Carnival Dream

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 2223

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

We have been thinking about no longer going on carnival cruises. After this 8-day cruise we have now decided that we will not go on any more carnival cruises.

Embarkation

1 out of 5
Cruise director was clueless

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
Eggs on the buffet were taistless and watery and made us sick.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Pool, slide, hot tubs, shows were all great. Spa needs a lot of work.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Too much gay stuff.

Children's Programs

I won't bring children in carnival cruises.

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Spa people are liars, multiple times, jewelry people refused to honor their own coupons. Room steward and waiters were awesome as usual.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
Trash wasn't picked up in a timely manner. Floors around the pool and hot tubs were wet and wasn't squeegeeed off and entirely manner. Windows in the spa were filthy and you could not see out of some of them

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The cabin was great. We were upgraded to a balcony cabin in a spa section but we were not provided all the things promised from the spa. The spa claimed covid protocols. We were given one item not the six that we were promised. The spa people were also lying to us constantly trying to sell us their stuff.

Ship tip

Choose a different ship.

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5
Galveston is always fun.

Key West, Florida

1 out of 5
Excursion was canceled and was not able to get another one booked. Lots of full trash cans all over the city even though they knew cruise ships were coming in. Bars everywhere

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

1 out of 5
Supposed to have an all exclusive there but the all exclusive was wiped out years ago by a hurricane. They didn't mention that when they sold it to us. Nothing else to do on the island as it was too late after finding out about the poor all inclusive. Very pushy people in the booth so we didn't buy anything either.

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

3 out of 5
Had a great time with the stingrays because they also showed you conch and sea cucumbers. But our original snorkeling excursion got canceled they blamed it on covid. Nothing else to do on the island. Beautiful flowers on the island.

Nassau, Bahamas

2 out of 5
The most beautiful fish and coral reef I've ever seen. But the city was filthy there was trash cans all over the place that were overfilling, p**** people trying to sell us stuff and braid our hair everywhere. We did not feel safe there, people in the stores were rude and didn't care if we bought anything or not. There are four cruise ships in this day.

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
The cruise manager had no clue what was going on on the several floors near the elevators. It was a rat race. It was the worst and most unorganized disembarkation I've ever experienced. This was the worst cruise I've ever had in the dirtiest ship I've ever been on with some of the poorest food and cruise director was useless. Cruise director let people in another section leave before the first two sections were even close to out the door they're still standing in line waiting on elevators. People that were carrying their own luggage had to wait on other people that already had their luggage shipped out because they weren't listening to the directions and nobody stopped them people were so upset with each other
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2 Comments

byhisgrace    2 years ago

Tootsie089    2 years ago

It would probably be a good idea for you to just vacation in Galveston, and forget cruising altogether.

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