To say that my wife and I were excited to sail on the Dream is a bit of an understatement. It had been over a year since our last cruise, which we sail on Carnival Glory, and we were itching to get underway. Since we enjoyed the Glory we were very excited to be on one of Carnival's newest ships!

Well the excitement was very short lived as the best word I can find to sum up our experience on the Dream is underwhelmed.

Being a new ship you would imagine everything would be brand new technology and interesting features with a great ship design. Well that is not the case on Dream. The ship outlay is just ridiculous. And that is putting it nicely. They used the exact same ship design as the Glory but just made it bigger. Now the on the Glory it worked ok because there weren't so many people, but on the Dream it just made the ship feel so much smaller than it is. The public rooms were not at all big enough and so it made the ship crowded. And we all now that is a very bad thing. We never seemed able to avoid the crowds. It honestly felt as if Carnival designed the ship to get as many people on board they could but didn't enhance any of the public rooms to deal with the extra people. We have sailed on RCI's Freedom of the Seas, it has the same passenger capacity if not more and deals with the crowds SO much better. That ship never felt crowded and had massive public rooms. Read more