Carnival Dream Review

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Carnival Dream

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Kdnggg
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jul 2016

Well there is a reason Meds are prescribed and Jace the tour director needs to take as prescribed. Everything out of his mouth was at full speed Charlie Brown teacher talk. A little Ritalin would help the guests perhaps understand what we need to know. He held the mike too close and speed read the schedule numerous times throughout the day. Very unclear explanation of what to do. BINGO consists of three games which you pay 0 for three cards or 30 or 60 for 9. And the prize $70 until the last one which you pick an envelope for which usually was 100.

They almost force you to use their tours by punishing you if you don't. We booked an excellent tour on our own in Belize only to find out the tenders would guarantee the people that booked with them to be in the first tenders off. But wait there was the option to get to some lounge early and try to get a ticket for the first tenders. Luckily, I was given a special escort pass because I had asked for a hairdryer (bring yours) on the first day, then second day asked steward and finally wen down that night to guest services only to be told they were supposed to get a shipment in New Orleans and it didn't com in. when given the special escort pass he didn't explain what that meant and other workers didn't know. Finally figured it out after being told by guest services when I complained about lack of information that it was on back of sheet. See he flipped it over and when I asked where, he had to go find someone to find out.)That will teach you me to book with someone other than carnival the next time.

Steward never even introduced herself except via card. We ate a lot of pizza because meal times in buffet were very limited. Getting off boat (jump it is faster). Well that was a circus in itself everything jammed up no workers to work crowd control. Almost had a fight on 4th floor with some swear words being tossed around by two men yelling. Okay so we go down elevator and again no workers to supervise the chaos. A gentlemen tells us he has been waiting a long time and the people on elevators keep showing up and jumping in line. So we go around to back of line. Here comes a Carnival director administrator man telling us this is customs fault. There was no one in line but customs stopped everything so please don't hold it against carnival. Being a teacher and used to managing lines I said to him, "but carnival could do a better job managing the chaos. These people just moved right here in line" Then some rather angry lady started in on me, don't blame us carnival keeps making us move from line to line, so don,t yell at us it isn't,t our fault. Of course I got called a heifer ( which at this point I was feeling rather heiferish being channeled into the slaughter house although she was more heiferish than me.). I told her, " I wasn't yelling at you I was telling carnival they needed to organize the chaos. I cruised on Norweigan and had no problem.

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