Wrigley80's Carnival Dream Repositioning Cruise Photo Review

[cruizinisthebest]

9 pages and you haven't gotten on the ship yet. lol. I'll check back later. I wanna see pics of the Dream!!;)

[wrigley80]

[quote name='cruizinisthebest']9 pages and you haven't gotten on the ship yet. lol. I'll check back later. I wanna see pics of the Dream!!;)[/QUOTE]


Haha yeah I know I promise I'll be onboard tomorrow. Check back then ;-)

[JamesEM]

Looking forward to Day 1 photos and comments.

[wrigley80]

[B][COLOR="Red"][/COLOR][/B]So we dropped off our rental car at Budget and jumped in the shuttle to head to the cruise port.

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First sight of the Dream on the shuttle

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I think I timed that picture pretty good

[B][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Red"]OK so once we gathered up our bags after we got off the shuttle we gave our 2 big bags to the porters at the terminal. This is where the total cluster fudge started :eek: Now we are Platinum but we were told to go stand in a line with other people who were first-time cruisers, past guests (but not platinum), and more Platinum guests. We stood outside for over an hour and a half. It was absolutely awful :mad: My dad asked to speak with one of the Carnival employees who work at the Port. She was walking around with a clipboard but she was a total "not a nice lady"
After an hour and a half we finally went through security and received our Platinum cards and Priority Boarding cards.....except they were already calling zones and were up to Zone 5. There were 6 lines coming out of the terminal and we all had to merge into one line to get on the ship. I have NEVER experienced such a horrible embarkation. This was due in part because we were at a different terminal due to the repositioning cruise. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] After about 2 hours we finally made it on the ship.....it was now almost 1:00 pm. I needed a STIFF drink :p Edited April 26, 2014 by wrigley80

[wrigley80]

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After all that and I still had a smile on my face.....just get me on the ship :)

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Don't mind if I do

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Ahhhhh we FINALLY made it onboard

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[wrigley80]

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We loved the Atrium on the Dream

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[wrigley80]

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I am in my Happy Place....this was taken out by the Sunset Bar. We are waiting for sail-away

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The Disney Fantasy is leaving before us

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[wrigley80]

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The observation deck at the Exploration Tower would be an awesome place to watch a sail-away

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You can just barely make out what it says....this is at the Kennedy Space Center

[nybumpkin]

[quote name='wrigley80']

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[/quote] Wow - That looks like a disaster waiting to happen.:eek:

You know, we had a non-so-great embarkation in Port Canaveral as well. We too had a lady with a clipboard who wanted us in line with the non-priority passengers. Once we reached the next person and showed her our boarding information, she immediately sent us to the priority line.

I'm enjoying your review.:cool:

[wrigley80]

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We are leaving the Carnival Splendor behind

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I like this view of the Exploration Tower better because then I know I'm on a cruise :D

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[wrigley80]

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Rusty's Seafood Bar

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I love Fishlips.....time to wave we are on the Port Canaveral webcam

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Grills Bar

You definitely won't go hungry in Cape Canaveral :p

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More development going on....I'm sure it will be built up even more the next time we are at Port Canaveral for a cruise

[pghsteelerfan]

[quote name='wrigley80']Probably the roughest seas that we have ever encountered was on the Carnival Legend in December 2011 when we were heading back to Tampa from Cozumel. We were in 10-12 foot waves. Dinner in the MDR for the late seating was cancelled because they couldn't keep the dishes on the tables. That was a crazy couple days.

I'm like you I usually take Dramamine the first two mornings of the cruise if I feel like I will need it. I never even took it out of my bag on this cruise.

I'd love to see some of your waves pictures....e-mail me at [EMAIL="brianna1980@outlook.com"]brianna1980@outlook.com[/EMAIL]

Thanks Again


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Brianna, I just sent you a message (with pictures). :)
Holly

[purplemusik]

It's so bittersweet to see the Dream's pics ( as I was on her in Feb and miss her so! )

[wrigley80]

As we were leaving Port Canaveral I took this next photo not even realizing what I was taking a picture of.....I think it is safe to say that it is a busy day of fishing at Port Canaveral
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Casino Boat at Port Canaveral

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This is one of the reasons why I love going on a cruise out of Port Canaveral. The people at the restaurants and at Jetty Park who come down to see the ships off. This day was even more special because it was last time that people would be seeing the Carnival Dream leave Port Canaveral. It was pretty awesome. People had banners that said "Smooth Sails to The Big Easy"

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The jetty was packed full of people

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Goodbye Port Canaveral.....Hello Fun. Let's get this fun started

[wrigley80]

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Carnival Fantasy headed towards the Bahamas.....I like this picture because you can see the Harbor Pilot boat pulling alongside

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Now it was our turn for the Harbor Pilot

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After sail-away we figured it was time to head back to our cabin to see if our bags had arrived yet....and they were there so it was now time to unpack for our the next 9 days

For this cruise we were in a Modified Cabin on Deck 6 mid-ship. We LOVED this cabin.....I will have some pics of this cabin coming up soon in the review

[UpstateCruizer]

[quote name='uffdafla']just stumbled on this post, Betty did you and Steve enjoy the Fishlips?[/quote]

Hi Dan we loved the "drinking and the atmosphere" however we had been there previously and found the food too greasy in general. This time we ate at Grills and loved the food. The drink prices were much higher there though. After we were done eating we joined the roll call for drinks at Fishlips :)

[wrigley80]

So after we unpacked we got ready for dinner. We had Your Time Dining in the Crimson Dining Room (this is the mid-ship dining room). Our first night in the MDR didn't go so well. We had arrived for dinner at 6:00 pm or so....we ordered and we sat and waited for over an hour to even receive first course. My dad got up and went to find the Maitre' D. We don't like doing that because the waiters work very hard but our waiter on this night was just standing around and then he would go missing for 15-20 minutes at a time. After this night at dinner we found another section with another group of waiters and the dining experience the rest of the cruise was absolutely wonderful.

If you eat in the Crimson dining room ask for Minor's section he was absolutely wonderful.

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This is what I looked at for the first hour after I ordered dinner ;)

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I love the chicken tenders

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My dad orders the fruit every night. I told him he was going to turn into a cantaloupe :D

[wrigley80]

So as some of you may have remembered today was the Final Four in Dallas so they had the Final Four games on the Big Screen on Lido Deck. That was a lot of fun to watch the games under the stars.....even though my teams didn't win I was rooting for Florida and Wisconsin :( Oh well It was still a lot of Fun

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Tip-Off of the Wisconsin/Kentucky game

[wrigley80]

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This was our door decoration. We were in cabin 6358. I had pictures of all the ships that we have cruised on with the dates and the ports of call that we went to. Then I added a poster that said "Tell Me Why You Cruise with Carnival" with a place for people to put their Name, Favorite Port of Call, Favorite Carnival Ship, and Why they Love to Cruise.

I got some pretty interesting responses :p ;)

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We headed to bed around Midnight after getting our first ice cream cone of the cruise :p

That is the End of our First Day onboard the Carnival Dream.....next up is our first Full Day at Sea :)

[wrigley80]

[quote name='nybumpkin']Wow - That looks like a disaster waiting to happen.:eek:

You know, we had a non-so-great embarkation in Port Canaveral as well. We too had a lady with a clipboard who wanted us in line with the non-priority passengers. Once we reached the next person and showed her our boarding information, she immediately sent us to the priority line.

I'm enjoying your review.:cool:[/QUOTE]


Looks a little overloaded to me....haha. Embarkation was awful but we weren't gonna let it bother us too much.....were on Vacation


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[wrigley80]

[quote name='pghsteelerfan']Brianna, I just sent you a message (with pictures). :)
Holly[/QUOTE]


Thank you. Wow you're right those were some pretty big swells. Thanks for sharing. My dad wants to cruise in big seas....he says that it will separate the rookie cruisers from the veterans.....haha I will smooth seas any day


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[wrigley80]

[quote name='purplemusik']It's so bittersweet to see the Dream's pics ( as I was on her in Feb and miss her so! )[/QUOTE]


Now you'll just have to go on a cruise on the Dream out of New Orleans.....hehe


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[wrigley80]

[quote name='UpstateCruizer']Hi Dan we loved the "drinking and the atmosphere" however we had been there previously and found the food too greasy in general. This time we ate at Grills and loved the food. The drink prices were much higher there though. After we were done eating we joined the roll call for drinks at Fishlips :)[/QUOTE]


You know you loved the Key Lime Colada at Fishlips.....hehe


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[Shaded Lady]

Loving this review...:)

[Hei1980]

We thought that is why it had to dock at a different terminal was because of having to load more supplies for the repositioning cruise.

 

Our embarkation was AWFUL.....by far the worst we have ever experienced at any port. I am about to explain it in the next part of my review. It was dreadful

 

Different terminal was due to a different fuel used for cruising inland via river. Or, so I was

told by "man in White".