This is our fourth cruise with Carnival and we were super excited to be on the Dream. My husband and I shared a room with our 13y/o & our two 19 y/o's had there own room. The room layouts that we had were the same as the other ships except now they have flat screens YAY! However, we did tend to hear the neighbors TV alot and am not sure if they just had it up loud or if because it is mounted on the wall, the walls may be thin?? Not a big problem though because at least they turned it off when we were sleeping.

We originally booked a window room with two bathrooms (2 bathrooms are exclusive for the Dream I think), but then we upgraded to a balcony one week before we left for only $20. Keep an eye on the prices, because if they go down, call them and maybe you will be upgraded too! Our daughters had a room on the first floor forward with a port hole and heard alot of ship motor, rotor, whatever sounds. They would have preferred an interior a few floors up. My mother and father-in-laws went and were upgraded from a window to a room with a window and the two bathrooms! One bathroom has a Jr. bathtub with a shower and a sink, and the other is a regular bathroom with a shower, sink, and toilet just like the other ships. We liked the room choices we all made except for the 19 y/o girls, next time they will go into an interior (they don't care about the window)!

Embarkation and Debarkation: Both of these were a breeze! I read some of the reviews where the waits were long and there were no places to sit for the embarkations...I think they worked those kinks out because we arrived via shuttle from our wonderful hotel "Country Inns & Suites" at 10:30am and was on the ship by 11:00am. VERY, VERY smooth! We explored, then went to the Lido on the tenth floor to eat..yummy! Our rooms were ready by one and all of our luggage except my bag was there by 3pm. Mine was delayed because I packed "contraban"...an iron! Woops! I totally forgot you couldn't have one of these. I got my bag around 5 with a nice note telling me that they found "prohibitted" items in my bag and they would return them to me the night before we debarked...only they didn't take it. As for Debarkation, we always take our own luggage off the ship with us because my husband want to get going as quickly as possible and so we did. We ported around 6am and could start debarking at 6:30am. (WE were not ready yet)! It took about 15 minutes in all to leave our room with our luggage and be off the ship! We were back to our car at the hotel and on the road by 7:10! Wow!!! Read more