This was our eight cruise over all but our first on the Carnival Dream. We arrived at the Erato Street Garage around 10:00 am on Sunday, May 3, 2015 and waited in line with the rest of our fellow cruise ship fanatics for the sad passengers getting off the Dream...we could hear the loud sobbing as they left the ship and knew that would be us the following Sunday... We finally progressed into the parking deck where we were met by the smiling, colorfully attired baggage handlers who asked us for our boarding passes and passports and then he tagged our bags with the Faster to the Fun tags, gave us back our documents and directed us to our parking choices. We parked without incident, and made our way into the elevator were where we met some of our fellow "on-line friends" from CC... it was great to meet them face to face!!! We made our way to the check in points, and were directed to the Faster to the Fun lines where there was no waiting, got checked in and the nice folks at the terminal were kind enough to suggest that I board with one of the wheel chair attendants since it was such a long walk up the embarkation walkway. (I use a walker to get around due to a stroke I had in 2005.) We had a short wait to board and were on the ship and in our cabin by 11:20 am...Not bad!!!

We off loaded our carry on luggage then headed to the Lido Deck for our traditional Ruben Sandwich from the Deli where we met more of our CC friends! After visiting with them for a while, we explored the ship and were amazed at the size! The ship is huge! Being 1,004 feet long, needless to say we got our exercise every day walking from our cabin to other venues on the ship. I'm glad we participate in decorating our cabin door or we would have never known which cabin was ours (and no we do not drink, LOL)

Our cabin, 7319 was the standard 185 sq. ft. Carnival inside cabin. We had the twin bed made into the king size bed for us... The decor was the typical cruise ship pastels with pink, green, turquoise, etc being the main colors. Three closets, safe, mini-fridge and the standard hair dryer in the top drawer at the desk in the cabin. Read more