Disney Dream Review
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OK so I am an older traveler, but not stodgy by any means. I love being around all the nieces and nephews. However, it is quite a different situation when you are tossed onto a ship with 2500 screaming, kicking, demanding, coughing, sneezing, dripping, naughty children.
Embarkation was a mess...we arrived at 10 AM and had a 2 hour wait to get on board. Never had to wait more than 20 minutes to board on RCCI in all the cruises we've taken. The number system they have is virtually worthless. We had group number 28 and an asthmatic child that needed a breathing treatment, so we were allowed to go on board with group number 25, but only after we insisted and had stood around for 2 hours. Not nearly enough seats for people and the benches they have, are always taken up by people putting their luggage next to them so no one else can sit.
The elevators were a constant 10-15 min. wait,and it was not until about the third night I realized it was because the pre-teens were running back and forth to the banks of elevators on each end of the ship, punching all the buttons inside the elevators for every floor. This seemed to be quite a source of pleasure for the smaller children as well. Hence the elevators would needlessly stop at every floor, no matter the time of day or night and most times, no one was waiting for them. Also since the children are allowed to get food and drinks freely they were carrying it onto the elevators and spilling it everywhere. On several occasions the elevators had soda dumped on the floors, cup and all. I had to ask crew members to wipe up two such messes in one day.
Cabin Review
The split bathrooms seems to work quite well, enjoyed having a tub/shower combo. The room size seemed cramped especially with the bed being right in front of the bathrooms. It made it tough to get in and out of the bathrooms and the cabin in general. And we had adjoining rooms and the pass through doors from each room blocked the foot of the bed area when opened, so no one could pass by to get in or out of the room. You had to close the pass through door to get around the bed. VERY BAD design. Would be a disaster in an emergency situation. Theses pass through doors should open in the opposite direction, so they lay up against the flat wall, not the built in dressers.
Balconies were very small, and people smoking on them made it difficult to enjoy them. Would not pay the extra for it again, we never used it.
We never had enough towels for the number of people in our rooms, so by the third night we finally had the steward trained to leave extras for us. Our steward Tron was great, very accommodating.