RuthlessBoss Posted October 5, 2012 #76 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Tonight were “Cruise Elegant Night” and my first time eating in the MDR and Lobster Night. If you happen to see this at your table when you sit down, you are in capable of hands. They were THE BEST wait staff EVER! Would I do “Your Time Dining” again? On the Dream-yes. Now here is where I started hearing complaints about the ship. I’m the type to smile and strike up a convo, ask "you how your day is going?" and "your cruise?". Well it would seem every time I asked someone how’s their cruise I received nothing but complaints. The complaints seem to focus on the MDR service. What I did notice is that about 99% of the MDR service complaints were from cruisers that had a set dining time i.e. Early or Late Seating. It got so bad that towards the end of the cruise I was scared to ask anyone how was their day and how was their cruise. Let me tell you the lines at Guest Services was constantly loooong. That night we went to see our only show of cruise, "Get Ready". It was good. When then followed up with some 18+ comedy in the Burgundy Lounge. Al Ernst was featuring and he was HIL-LAR-IOUS!!! I must have busted a gut or two during his show. Although it was an 18+ show he use of profanity was very very mild. It was more adult humor or jokes only an adult would understand. He was so good we saw him on Monday night..woah i'm getting ahead of myself here with Monday. Al's show was different each time. If you are lucky enough to see him in your Fun Times make sure you make a point of going. We ended the night and walked in our room and saw this on our bed. Recap: "Get Ready"-8/10 Al Ernst Comedy-10/10 Anytime MDR Service-10/10 Up Next...Sea Day,CC Formal Meet & Greet, Chef's Table, and then St. Thomas That dress looks perfect on you. Guess I watch "Say Yes To The Dress" too much:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnstoc13 Posted October 5, 2012 #77 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Excellent review and I'm excited to see all the 2.0 updates to the Dream! Thank you for taking the time to do this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher34 Posted October 5, 2012 #78 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Thank you so much for taking the time to do this review! It's great! I love the picture of you and your husband. You are a great looking couple and that dress is fabulous! We will be ssailing on the Dream Mar. 2 and I am so excited to hear what the ship is like after the dry dock. We were on her 2 years ago and Loved her. Did you did the Taste Bar? I am so happy to read a positive review since the only other from that cruise was pretty negative and I was worried that maybe the ship was as good as we remembered it. I can't wait to read more. Also, I love your pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurfm69 Posted October 5, 2012 #79 Share Posted October 5, 2012 I love your pictures and posts Krystal... So funny Can't wait to hear more ! We leave on the Dream Oct 20 .. CAN'T WAIT!!:p Hey teeth, we are on the same sailing with you on Oct. 20th! Only 2 more weeks to go! Come on over and join the roll call. Loving all the pics and review Krystal! Keep it coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 5, 2012 Author #80 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Thanks all for the positive remarks. I wanted to post my review to give back in a way to all those reviews i read to get ready for my cruise. I didn't know if anyone was reading since everytime i go to work on it the review is on page 4/5.:D:p Hopefully i will be able to continue tonight. Hubby is on the computer right now .:cool::rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angeleski Posted October 6, 2012 #81 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Please ask your husband to leave the computer! Your review is great and i am looking forward to the rest as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 6, 2012 Author #82 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Please ask your husband to leave the computer! Your review is great and i am looking forward to the rest as well. ROFLOL:D:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollytammy Posted October 6, 2012 #83 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Thank you, thank you, thank you for the great review. Your pics are so wonderful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Banditswife Posted October 6, 2012 #84 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Great review, thanks. We are in a cove aboard the Dream next month. We also have ATD. So glad to hear that worked for you, & that you like your cove. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisingpastor Posted October 6, 2012 #85 Share Posted October 6, 2012 My wife and I are considering cruising on the Dream in March. The wife prefers the late seating for dinner and your comments about those who chose a set dining time has me concerned. Not to dwell on the negative, but what kind of complaints were you hearing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules815 Posted October 6, 2012 #86 Share Posted October 6, 2012 My wife and I are considering cruising on the Dream in March. The wife prefers the late seating for dinner and your comments about those who chose a set dining time has me concerned. Not to dwell on the negative, but what kind of complaints were you hearing? I was wondering the same thing. We'll board Dream 2 weeks from today (:D) and also have late seating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teethtoclean Posted October 6, 2012 #87 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Smurf ... I am counting the minutes... 2weeks YIPPEE:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMSACE6 Posted October 6, 2012 #88 Share Posted October 6, 2012 Absolutely loving the review! keep it coming!:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #89 Share Posted October 7, 2012 My wife and I are considering cruising on the Dream in March. The wife prefers the late seating for dinner and your comments about those who chose a set dining time has me concerned. Not to dwell on the negative, but what kind of complaints were you hearing? As you can tell i'm not really a negative person. I will note at the the end of the review (if i ever get there:p) the negatives i or my family encountered. Nothing to ruin the cruise but things to improve on. What i kept hearing over and over again was that those that had set seating felt like they were left or forgotten. That food took FOREVER..some stating they waited over an hour for food. One thing i did learn was during the Chef's Table the Chef did state that the waiters on the Dream who were serving "Your Time Dining" had precedence when grabbing food from the kitchen. Something about ticket coloring and jumping in line to grab what was needed for their tables. To be honest i was fading-in-n-out at that point. I was more interested in the next course.:p:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #90 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Okay so where was I…..hmmm…ok we were getting ready for the Chef’s Table. I booked the Chef’s Table as my birthday gift to hubby. Hubby works in the Restaurant industry so I knew he’ll love it. Also we love to eat! Hehehe I booked the Chef’s Table about 3 months before the cruise. I tried to go through John Heald’s blog but I never really got a reply for that except for the generic “we received your request” email. So I tried posting on his FB page and he did respond saying he got it setup for me. I was like, “okay great…where’s my confirmation email?” No response..but John assured me I was all set. I even tried to email the Steakhouse directly. No response! Well ladies and gents I’m the type of person who wants…no NEEDS to have physically confirmation paperwork in hand. I have been burnt too often during business and the first thing out their mouths was, “do you have a confirmation?” So being the person I am I was not satisfied with that. I didn’t want to get on the ship after hyping my booboo up about the Chef’s Table only to be told, “We don’t have you confirmed-sorry it’s sold out”. So I came on Cruise Critic and found out that if you want to reserve the Chef’s Table before the cruise and you haven’t received a confirmation from John Heald’s blog stating you were confirmed then to email Group Event Planning: groupeventplanning@carnival.com. Trust me I got a response quickly. A nice little confirmation email was sent to me after answering a few questions. I was all set to go. My need for paperwork was satisfied. Chef’s Table here we come!:D Here’s a pic of me ready to go for the Chef’s Table. Sorry no food pics. We were not allowed to take any. We did come away with 2 pictures of the Chef Table and the recipe to Warm Chocolate Melting Cake. We ended the evening by taking in Al Ernst at Punchliner's Comedy Club, then headed to bed. This is what we saw that night on our balcony. Oh yeah he was waiting for us tonight. We were in a treat tomorrow. ..St. Thomas and some Deep Sea Fishing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travlngrl1996 Posted October 7, 2012 #91 Share Posted October 7, 2012 I am loving your review. I can't wait to board the DREAM and try out the Chef's Table. Can't wait to read more! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #92 Share Posted October 7, 2012 I am loving your review. I can't wait to board the DREAM and try out the Chef's Table. Can't wait to read more! :D Thanks Tawana. :)Tawana..i've been want to ask you. Are you greek? I'm a Zeta that's why i'm asking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #93 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Yes..the day has FINALLY arrived. This is the scene we saw from our balcony As we were arriving to St. Thomas the peeps from Senor Frogs actually serenaded us as we entered the pier. Click on the Picture Below to view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #94 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Here is a little background about my family. We are born either swimmers or fisherman. I was NOT born a fisherman. My Mom was born a fisherman. When trying to decide on what we wanted to do Mom wanted to go fishing. This whole summer she has been trying to get out on a boat in some water somewhere to go fishing. Since my father passed away she’s unable to launch the boat she has by herself and with my brother moving away it’s been hard on her. Since this was the 1st trip since my dad has passed away I thought I would humor her and was all excited about this fishing trip. How bad could this get? Do ya feel a story coming on here…So Mom told me “to make this happen” so where do I go to gather information. Why CC of course! I stumbled upon a review here (I’m sorry I totally forgot whose-sorry) who chartered a boat and went deep sea fishing. The name of the company is Fishing St.Thomas. It’s ran by Captain David (Dave) http://www.fishingstthomas.com/ Captain Dave showed my mom and hubby and good time. He was on time, courteous, included water, beer, and soda and was very personable. He responded to all my questions, emails, and phone calls. I would HIGHLY recommend him. Now onto the rest of my story. We get off and head towards the boat based on his directions he gave me. I did ask someone at the pier because I did want to make sure I was going in the right direction. It was so hot and I wanted to make sure before I start walking what looked to be a little ways that I was not wasting my time. Did I not mention how hot and humid it was? Anyhoo, we spot this boat in the water but no captain. We told Capt. Dave that we would meet him at 11:30am. The Dream pulled in at 11am. It was only 11:25am. Captain Dave mentioned he’ll be there earlier. I saw this white boat that looked like it was the boat in the picture on his website but there was no “Peanut” painted on the side. It was actually just a plain white boat. Then as I get ready to panic here walks up this barefoot laid back smiling gentlemen asking me if I was Krystal. I was like, “yeah, are you Capt. Dave?” He smiled and was like, “yep, let’s get to fishing.” The time was 11:30am on the dot. I looked at Mom she had this huge grin on her face. I knew this would be a great day:D. So we board the little white boat and headed on out. I sat in the front on the cooler, hubby sat waaaaaay in the front kind of catamaran style and mom was in the rear in the “hot seat” ready to go fishing. The Captain in his glee took off over the water at high speeds. The boat started bouncing up and down and up and down. Like I mentioned before we are either fisherman or swimmers in my family. I’m the swimmer. I’ve been on boats before..did I mention it was hot and humid? So anyways, the boat goes up and down and up and down…I started turning green. Yep, sure did. Hubby looks at me and was like, “Krystal, you okay?” I couldn’t say anything. I just held on for dear life and prayed the 3 hours went quickly.:eek: Mom had fun. She caught a yellow –tailed snapper and a tuna. She had many many many bites of a barracuda that was “playing with her”. One that got to the boat and then ‘jumped’ the line. It didn’t dawn on me until 2hrs into the trip that there was some Sprite in the cooler. Once I started sipping on the Sprite my stomach settled down and I felt a twinge better. Hubby almost wheeled in something that had the Captain scared. We were talking then the line did a “wwwweeeeeeeeeee” sound and the Captain jumped up and tried to help hubby. Whatever it was I’m kind of glad we didn’t catch it. Sounded like something REAL big. Well I’ll leave you with some pictures that were taken on the waters of St. Thomas. Don’t laugh when you see the one of me about the chunk it up. Although the background is perfect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #95 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Monstrosity of the Seas hiding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travlngrl1996 Posted October 7, 2012 #96 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thanks Tawana. :)Tawana..i've been want to ask you. Are you greek? I'm a Zeta that's why i'm asking. Hey, I'm not greek, but I am an Eastern Star. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #97 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Me Sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrystalWaters Posted October 7, 2012 Author #98 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Here are a couple of pics we took out on the water. It sprinkled a little or as my mom calls it, "it pee'd". So the sky was constantly changing colors. It was pretty neat. I no way felt unsafe during the trip. Captain Dave paid close attention to the sky. He even went to move our stuff when it stated it was going to pour. He was right. But only for a moment. After fishing we decided to visit some local shops. I purchased an "authentic" coin purse and a cute cloth bag. Mom bought some small jewelry trinkets and then we headed back to the cruise ship. Tonight i think i just vegged out. I was pooped.I know "Dancin' In The Streets" was showing but i ended up skipping that. We did a little gambling and then hubby and I just called it a night.;) This was on our bed after dinner. Up Next St. Marten... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travlngrl1996 Posted October 7, 2012 #99 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Gorgeous pictures of St. Thomas Krystal. These would make my husband want to book this. I'm sorry, you asked us not to laugh at your picture of you sick, but I had to chuckle a little, because that probably would've happened to me. :eek: I hope that you recovered quickly and was able to enjoy the rest of the excursion and the day. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules815 Posted October 7, 2012 #100 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Love the pictures, Krystal. I feel for you on that boat! I can't handle smaller boats on choppy water either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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