Carnival Dream Review

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Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Dream
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mtnbikerchick
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Oct 2011
Cabin: Premium Vista Balcony

This was our first cruise out of Port Canaveral. We have only gone out of Mobile, and had heard all the nightmare stories. We thought Mobile was a breeze - until now!! Wow - when you have something to compare it to - Mobile is not so great. However, it really is not the nightmare people have made it out to be. Port Canaveral is great and smooth. We flew into Orlando later in the evening and had arranged with the Radisson for a taxi to pick us up and take us to the hotel. Our friends from NM met us at the Radisson (we live in Florida). I was not impressed with the Radisson. Our room was not that clean and the desk staff was a little snarky (maybe a long day).

Saturday morning we got up and made our way down to the lobby. I had called the week before and set up our confirmation on the park n ride to the cruise terminal. Our friends got our time when they checked in. It was controlled mayhem in the lobby with all of the cruisers. Obviously the Radisson does this each week - so they called our name and away we went. We checked our bags and made our way through security, etc. We were on the ship before noon. Yes, it was a breeze.

After reading all the suggestions and reviews, we made our way to the pasta bar. I was the only one in our group that went for the pasta, everybody else went and made their own burritos. I loved the pasta - and everybody loved their burritos. We had quite a lot of time to kill before our room was ready so we had a drink and explored the ship. Wow - it was HUGE!!! One thing, it's not as "open" or as easy to get around like I would have thought.

Cabin Review

Premium Vista Balcony

Cabin 9C

Smaller closet than in a ocenview room. Aft balcony was great - but you could feel every wave.

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