Carnival Dream Review

Carnival Cruise 50th birthday celebration

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Dream
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sienna96
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jun 2012
Cabin: Grand Suite
Traveled with children

Having read many negative reviews about the Carnival Dream, I was a bit apprehensive about our June 23rd 7-Day Western Caribbean cruise, however, now that our cruise is over, I can confidently say we were pleasantly surprised at how well things worked out. We are a family of five with children ages 16, 13 and 8. We were celebrating my husband's 50th birthday along with 16 other family members ages 5-79. Although we are relatively new to cruising (we traveled on a Royal Caribbean 3-day cruise 15 years ago), we travel extensively and so our family has become accustomed to certain amenities and level of service when we travel. We had read many negative reviews about the Carnival Dream and in spite of these, chose this cruise line for our 21-person group primarily because the price point potentially allowed more family members to participate. Our expectations were guarded and I can say with confidence that Carnival exceeded them.

Accommodations and service--most of our group booked suites (GS, OS and spa suites). We were all pleased with the size of the suites. At the time of booking (6 months ahead), because there were very no adjoining cabins available for our kids, we instead booked an interior cabin across the hall for our children and this worked fine.

Service--our rooms were on the 7th floor Empress Deck and our cabin attendant, Adrian, was wonderful and extremely accommodating.

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Grand Suite

Cabin GS

The Grand Suite was spacious. It had a sleeper sofa which was helpful when my youngest child wanted to sleep in our room. There is no DVD player in the room nor could we connect our portable player to the back of the TV. I was a bit concerned about our balcony being positioned over one of the lower deck hot tubs, however, the hot tub was rarely used and we never heard any noise from the hot tub.

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