Myself (40), My husband (40), our nearly 19 year old daughter and our 16 year old son were on the 2/27/10 Eastern Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Dream. I have been back just over a week and am finally writing a review of our trip. I arranged for us to fly from Milwaukee to Orlando the night before. We stayed at the Sleep Inn near the Airport as we didn't get in until around 9pm. A slight disappointment was that we were told to go wait at area B3 for the shuttle but ended up waiting there about an hour. When I called the hotel after 45 minutes I was told the driver had to go pick up others first and would be coming for us shortly. If I had known it would be an hour we would have waited in a comfortable area inside the airport instead of standing out in the cold. We checked into the hotel, ordered some pizza and got as much sleep as we could since we were all very excited. The room was pretty nice. It was clean and comfortable.

I arranged for us to use Laura's Shuttle Service for our round trip transportation to and from the port. I have to say Mike was great to work with both on the phone and in person. Fortunately we had gotten up and ready right away in the morning as he called about 9:15am and asked if we could be ready to go at 10am instead of 11:15. We were ready to go and were excited to get to the port earlier than we expected.

We had a nice ride to the port and arrived about 11:15. 25 minutes later we were walking into the Atrium. I thought that was fantastic for checking in 4 of us with 2 rooms. Read more