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Wednesday's Review of the Carnival Dream 6/12/10 Western Caribbean

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tinaky1114

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We are on an interior. I will make sure to take pictures. I'm planning to attempt a review when I get back. Every one I have read on here has added so much to the excitement of our upcoming trip...I want to pay it forward :)

 

Thank you. I am looking at booking an interior spa room. I have never had an inside room before but I am traveling solo so I would rather save some money.

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Cushing985

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Fellow Passengers

 

Saw some inconsiderate behavior from fellow passengers. We watched from our balcony as one guy tried to toss a cigarette overboard (I am pretty sure he had to have heard the pleas not to do this at the muster drill or even read one of the multiple signs :mad:) of course it blew back in and landed on the deck where he left it without putting it out. This is after he lit a cigarette for a young boy who could not have been older than 13!?! Mind you this is all happening on the non-smoking side of the ship. These were just a few people and most of the smokers, especially by the pool were on the side that allowed smoking. Someone scratched graffiti into the inside of one of the elevator doors and in another someone stuck the chocolate mints they put in the rooms on the control panel. There was an issue with unsupervised kids as well.

 

 

We met a lot of really nice people and didn’t let the few rude people ruin our vacation but I just wonder why it is so hard for some people to follow the rules and to just be considerate to the people around them? :confused:

 

You just can't cure stupid! Thank God these kind of people are few and far between.

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hokie4life

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Our cabin Spa balcony 11245

 

The room was nice, clean and well maintained. Our room steward Antonius was great and always greeted us by first name and asked how we were doing.

 

There are a couple of issues with this particular cabin that I want to address. 1) The proximity to the stairs and elevator meant some noise from people loitering and talking or kids running wild late at night, we had a similar location on RCI’s Navigator of the seas and didn’t have this much trouble with noise. There is not a lot of ambient noise in the cabin and you hear balcony doors slamming and people talking pretty well when you are trying to sleep, we ran into another couple that said the same thing. A suggestion from me for anyone traveling on this ship is to take a white noise machine or load white noise on your laptop. I was thankful I had some white noise on my laptop, after the first restless night I used it and had no more problems. 2) If you are booking a spa cabin to get away from the smoke, this is the last spa cabin on deck 11 so the people next to you can smoke and they did …frequently :( I thought being upwind would prevent me from smelling it but no such luck, it smelled very strongly on my balcony. I wish they could come up with some way for us non-smokers to be able to enjoy our balconies without being subjected to others smoke. This was my second Carnival cruise and on both I felt like I could rarely enjoy the balcony because of smoke.

 

Thanks for the tip about your proximity to the stairs and elevator. We're booked for the Oct 9th sailing and had cabin # 11243 (next to your cabin). There aren't many spa rooms left for the sailing on the starboard side but we were able to move to 11225 to place us a little farther away from the stairs/elevators.

 

Thanks again!

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wednesday

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Thanks for the tip about your proximity to the stairs and elevator. We're booked for the Oct 9th sailing and had cabin # 11243 (next to your cabin). There aren't many spa rooms left for the sailing on the starboard side but we were able to move to 11225 to place us a little farther away from the stairs/elevators.

 

Thanks again!

 

glad I could help :)

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Great start...we had Antonious in May...very nice, hard working guy. I can see you cabin being a bit more closer to the general ship noise as you're right at then end of the spa cabin row. We were farther up toward the bow. But everyone has noise from balconies, jus tthe way they are.

Looking forward to the rest of your review.

queastion to u what was the temp in january water and air thanks

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wednesday

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great review! love the detail, and especially, all the food porn - now i'm hungry :D

 

Thanks! Your pride review was great, I wasn't going on that ship or to those ports and still read it. So I take it as an honor that you liked mine:D

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falkcor

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Thanks! Your pride review was great, I wasn't going on that ship or to those ports and still read it. So I take it as an honor that you liked mine:D

 

thanks! i still need to get around to finishing that one of these days :o

 

and LOL, i've heard that quite a few times! who knows, maybe you will sail pride one day - but i doubt dream will be my next one (especially since we're getting magic! yeah! :D), so, right back at 'ya :cool:

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wednesday

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Great review, Wednesday and beautiful pics! We were on the same sailing and a good time was had by all. Sounds like you all enjoyed yourselfs too.;) Susan

 

We were really fortunate with the weather, and had a great time! Glad yall had fun too!

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Thanks so much for your wonderful review & awesome pics!! I'm currently deciding between the Dream or Epic for our Oct trip, your review gives me a true sense on what it's like to be on the Dream. This pushes the scale a bit towards the Dream. Thanks for taking the time to share...

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Thanks so much for your wonderful review & awesome pics!! I'm currently deciding between the Dream or Epic for our Oct trip, your review gives me a true sense on what it's like to be on the Dream. This pushes the scale a bit towards the Dream. Thanks for taking the time to share...

 

I loved our NCL cruise on the GEM and would book the EPIC if it didn't have those weird bathrooms, I am just too modest for those:p I am sure you will have a great time whichever ship you pick.:)

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islandcruisersnc

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We are on an interior. I will make sure to take pictures. I'm planning to attempt a review when I get back. Every one I have read on here has added so much to the excitement of our upcoming trip...I want to pay it forward :)

 

 

reeree- we are in 11220 right around the corner, maybe we will see you!

 

wednesday- thanks so much for the awesome review and the pics were great!:D

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dogbert's mom

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Thanks for the great review. We have been home from our cruise on the Dream for a month and I am having serious shrimp withdrawals.

 

After looking at your pictures I realized that our cruise was very overcasted and cloudy at times.

 

Thanks again

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We are on an interior. I will make sure to take pictures. I'm planning to attempt a review when I get back. Every one I have read on here has added so much to the excitement of our upcoming trip...I want to pay it forward :)

 

don't forget! I'll be watching for your review! :D

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poptart

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wow! your pictures are amazing! Thanks for sharing. Only 111 days to go for our turn!

 

My friends 2 nieces and their dh's were on this cruise with you, they also had a wonderful time and loved the Dream.

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