LilMermaid75

We were on the Dream last week. No issues at all. We had YTD and had the fastest dining times ever! We were usually out of the dining room within an hour. Our wait staff would take our order and bring us a fruit plate and cheese plate every night while we waited for our appetizers (we never asked for this - they did it for all their tables). Food was always hot.

Room Steward was fantastic and serviced the room 2x each day. When he introduced himself he even told ya he services rooms twice a day cleaning and then gave us the paper to indicate preferences. He was awesome.

CD Chris the Flying Scotsman is out of this world and one of the best in the fleet (this was our second time sailing with him). A CD for us doesn't make or break a cruise, but good ones can definitely enhance the experience- and Chris is top notch.

Our biggest disappointment - The new Pig and Anchor. Lines are ridiculously long and the portion sizes were extremely small. They were out of sauce and the food was mediocre. Only open from 12-2:30 on sea days. Loved having Guys and Blue Iguana.

Vow renewals are done on a sea day - you don't have any choice as to the day, time or location and they tell once you are onboard (we found out at dinner the first night). Ours was the second sea day in one of the lounges. The ceremony was performed by the Captain. You are given a certificate for your renewal that comes in a nice folder with a picture of the ship. Vow renewals are less expensive than weddings on embarkation day - I think ours was around $700 - that included the ceremony, small cake, champagne, and one photo taken during the ceremony.

But you could always find a quiet spot either on the ship or on a beach and renew your vows just the two you with your own vows. Then do a Dreams Photography shoot ( I think they may even do pictures in a port if you ask, but I'm not 100% sure of that).

Either way....happy anniversary! No better way to celebrate than with a cruise. :)

We renewed our vows on the Dream last year for our 20th anniversary. We were traveling with several friends, so having the reception on board was worth it to us. Unfortunately I don't believe there is any other option on board other than using the vow renewal team, unless you just want to go somewhere and do the ceremony by yourselves. You could always do a photo shoot with a Dream Studios photographer- but beware the photos are amazing and expensive. We had a hard time picking just a few. We would do another vow renewal through Carnival in a heartbeat.

If you have any specific questions, I can try to answer.

Any chance you have the menus would love to see what my future cruise food choice look like

Unfortunately no. I was very bad about taking any pictures on this cruise. 😕

We were also on this cruise. We had a balcony on the Veranda (8). Overall this ranks up with one of our favorite cruises. We went to dinner every night around 6 (ATD) and never had a wait. We found our fantastic wait team on night 3 (led by Yaco) and stayed with them the rest of the week. Once we figured out this was the first cruise with the new menu, we cut them all some slack. They were working their tails off. I have mixed feelings on the new menu and agree with the one individual that said there were a couple of nights that nothing stood out to us.

We didn't go to any of the music shows. We went to the welcome aboard show and were extremely disappointed. What was up with the cartoon towel Ana,it's? I think they need to re-think that campaign. Overall we enjoyed all of the live music - especially the group Ship Wreck. They were outstanding. Enjoyed the hypnotist (although agree it was kind of hokey) and the juggler was great. Never had any trouble finding a seat at any of the shows, including the comedy shows.

Agree with all the good comments on guys and Blue Iguana.

This is one of our favorite class of ships. We never felt like the lines were outrageous and actually found them non-existent in most cases. We enjoyed several dive-in movies. We traveled with our 12year old and found the number of kids to be extremely low (it seemed like an older crowd to us). Seemed strange to us with a lot of schools on fall break, so he did not attend many of the Circle C events.

We stopped at Grand Turk on a cruise this past March with two other ships. The last to arrive did in fact tender. The port was crazy busy with 3 ships there. Thankfully the third ship didn't come in for another hour or so, so we were able to get seats. Just be prepared for a busy port day, and hope you're the first ship to dock. Grand Turk is one of our favorite stops, so even with all the people we had a great time.

Only one option: the junior suites, 9205 & 9206. In those, the 3rd person will have the single sofabed (not a pullout), & the 4th person will be in a trundle or rollaway. There are more suites on deck 7 that can accommodate 4 people without an upper.

 

All non-suite balcony cabins on this ship will put the 3rd person in an upper bunk. For some reason, Triumph & Victory are like that. Their sofas in the balcony rooms aren't large enough to be a bed. I noticed this on Triumph. Oceanview rooms will have the big sofas (and suites), but not the standard balcony rooms. I don't know why. Destiny/Sunshine was built before these 2 ships, yet they have the big sofas in balcony rooms. It's strange.

This isn't 100% true. We had a balcony on the lido deck (non-suite) on the Victory in late 2013 and had three to the room. The 3rd bed was the sofa made into a bed. It was long enough that an adult's feet didn't hang off the end.

I know one of the perks with the cabana rentals is priority tendering. We have rented a cabana for us and our friends - a total of 6 of us (4 adults, 2 11YO). Question - will we all be able to priority tender or will they only allow 4 of us? Thanks!

A side note about Darnell. He is the Punchliner Comedy Club Manager / MC, from Cleveland, Ohio, and is one of the three or four stand-out team members from the cruise. He easily had the most energy of anyone on the entertainment team, and seemed to genuinely enjoy his job. I wouldn't mind seeing him as a Cruise Director on a Carnival ship at some point in the near future. ]

Totally agree!

Before I go any further, I will address the title of this thread. Yes, the Carnival Pride did experience a "complete power and propulsion failure" early in the morning of Monday, March 24 while sailing South off the East Coast of the United States. The ship lost all power, including lighting, elevators, toilets, and propulsion for approximately two hours between 9:00am and 11:00am ships time. I will go into more detail later, but the Captain and Cruise Director did a great job of keeping us updated on the situation, with announcements every 10-15 minutes. By 11:00am, some ships systems were restored, starting with elevators and toilets, and then lighting and propulsion

we were on this same sailing, and I agree - the staff handled this beautifully. The servers in the MDR served Danish and coffee with smiles in their faces and Kirk kept us informed. We did have lighting in the hallways, and we were in a balcony so it was nice to have that natural light.

They will reduce speed to make their timed arrivals. Is the published arrival time for the modified itinerary the same as the 10am one for the normal cruise?.

Our published arrival time was 9:00 - I think that is pretty normal for her, but I could be wrong.

Carnival has the Quest - we've seen it on the Victory and Miracle. Both lines are very similar in how they are done.

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The two in the front also serve lunch.

Love reading your reviews! Thank you for all the time you put into writing them. Looking forward to this one.