Being 2 of the many hundreds of Platinum card holders who decided to celebrate Christmas by taking the inaugural Port Canaveral cruise of The Dream, my expectations must have been placed much too high.

I have allowed a week to go by to try and think things through but The Carnival Dream fell short of my expectations.

We have traveled on Carnival during the first 2 weeks of Advent several times in the past and really enjoyed the beautiful Christmas decorations. The Dream had not a single decoration anywhere on the ship. Well, that isn't exactly correct-the nurses in the infirmary bought their own decorations and put them up! When I asked an officer(Canadian) why the ship was not decorated he stated," it WILL be decorated for Christmas, when you get off the ship! Read more