Just got off the Carnival Dream this morning and this ship is truly a dream! Where do I start? First we arrived in NO on 7/31/14 and we stayed at the Sheraton Hotel on Canal street. The hotel was very nice and it even had a full Starbucks in the lobby of the hotel. My parents and I went down Canal street and then down the famous Bourbon street. The first restaurant we ate at was the Oceana restaurant. The food was okay but the service was excellent. We also took the trolley to the mall that was literally 2 blocks away from our hotel which we didn't know. The next day we took a taxi to another mall called Slidell(I believe that was name of it) I know it was abt a 20 min taxi ride from our hotel and we did a little bit of precruise shopping. On our last night in NO, we were told that two events were going on which one was a white linen party and I forgot the other event.

Arriving to the Port of New Orleans Sunday August 3,2014 around noon time, I was anxious and excited to get aboard this ship. Not only that, it was my parents first cruise and I was excited for them to experience all the good memories that my cousin and I experience on our first cruise.

My parents, cousin and I got in line at the Port of New Orleans cruise terminal and the entire process took almost an hour. After going through the medal detectors, we all went through another door and everyone had to be seated. They were calling everyone by groups to get our S&S card and took out photo but since my dad has medical issues we went through the handicap line per a Carnival cruise employee. We took our picture and our S&S cards were issued about a minute later. Read more