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It does appear that they are boarding from ground level so there is no incline. And traffic is being routed from Calhoun Street to Concord St. Concord leads right up to where the tents are for unloading. At 12:30 today the traffic did not appear to be bad and it seemed that the shuttles and boarding were going smoothly.

 

 

My son was part of the PR group from Charleston that was invited to the special celebration. He said that they actually had to go through an embarkation process, but that it went very smoothly. He was on the ship in less that 30 minutes after arrival at the port. Very impressivie for Charleston.

 

He also said that Carnival went all out to welcome them onboard. First they were taken to the main lounge for a presentation by John Heald. It lasted about an hour. During that time they were served unlimited drinks and not those awful, watered down things that they serve at the past guest party! He said that they used top shelf liqour.

 

They were also served lunch in the MDR. He said that it was a five course meal, consisting of lobster tails and prime rib as the main entree. During lunch, unlimited drinks and wine were also available. Sounds like a lot of drinking to me!!

 

The whole event lasted about five hours.

Anyone have pics of 2207 on the Dream?

I sailed on the Brittanis in the mid 80's (cannot remember the exact year) with my sister and two girlfriends. The ship sailed from Charleston ,SC for a 3 day "cruise to nowhere". It was the first time that any of us had cruised. Needless to say, we had a blast! We shared a stateroom with four bunkbeds and one very small porthole. The bathroom, however was very large. The food was fantastic. What great memories!