We have completed the August 7th western Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Dream. Since we have comments not covered in many of the other reviews, I am adding a review here. My wife and I were joined by her sisters and family members and a close family friend, so we had six in our group. This was the second cruise for my wife and me, but the sixth or more for our accompanying family and friend. A cruise is an excellent mode of vacation travel for a family get together and also ideal for my wife, who is somewhat handicapped with neuropathic pain from a stroke. She used the family wheelchair for most ship and onshore movement, so we saw how a somewhat handicapped person travels on the Dream....quite well.

Carnival handled us extremely well, both in embarkation and debarkation and on assistance getting on and off the ship at ports. They could not have done better. The main negative is that a handicapped person in a wheelchair needs to use the elevators all the time, and there were quite a few bottlenecks here, especially at the elevators at the aft Scarlet dining room. On our cruise last year on the Liberty, we were also assigned the aft dining room. For both cruises (we had the lower Scarlet) we had to use elevators to get to the dining deck since the galley prevents access from the forward part of the ship. If you can use stairs, this is no real issue. But for us this turned out to be somewhat of an irritant, and for a future cruise I think I'll have to insist on assignment to the forward dining room.

We had an inside handicapped accessible cabin this year as well as last year on the Liberty. The equivalent cabin on the Dream is larger and we appreciated the very nice closets. The bath, level with lots of room, is perfect for the handicapped. So I can certainly recommend Carnival's Dream for those with difficulties. Read more