Carnival Dream

Carnival Dream Virtual Tour

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I recently had the chance to board the Carnival Dream in Galveston. While I was touring the vessel, I took the opportunity to photograph the ship for a comprehensive tour. This review will cover the public areas and staterooms. All…

Carnival Dream Deck Plans

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click for larger Click here to Download the Deck Plans High Res Of Each Deck Deck 1 Deck 2 Deck 3 Deck 4 Deck 5 Deck 6 Deck 7 Deck 8 Deck 9 Deck 10 Deck 11 Deck 12 Deck…

Carnival Dream Starts Service from New Orleans

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from Carnival: New Orleans’ largest year-round cruise ship, the 3,646-passenger Carnival Dream, will depart on its inaugural six-day cruise from New Orleans this afternoon, further solidifying Carnival’s distinction of the port’s largest cruise operator with two ships carrying more than…

Carnival Swapping Sunshine for Dream in New Orleans

via Carnival: Carnival Cruise Lines today announced new ship deployments taking effect in 2014 in several key markets resulting in exciting new product offerings from Port Canaveral, Fla., and New Orleans. Carnival will now feature the widest selection of seagoing…

Carnival Dream Assists Stranded Boaters

  On Saturday evening while sailing off the coast of Florida, Carnival Dream was alerted by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) that a small craft was experiencing mechanical issues and in need of assistance. Carnival Dream deviated course and…

Carnival Dream Update

The Carnival Dream departed St. Maarten over the weekend and will arrive in Port Canaveral tomorrow.

Carnival Cruise Lines Update

via Carnival: Carnival Cruise Lines Update March 16, 2013 We would like to share an update with you regarding the status of Carnival Dream, Legend and Elation and to answer your questions and clarify many misperceptions that are being driven…

[UPDATED] Carnival Dream Suffering from Propulsion Problems

THIRD UPDATE: Here’s Carnival’s statement as to what actually happened onboard the Dream: While at dock in St. Maarten yesterday, the ship’s engineering team conducted a regularly scheduled test of the ship’s emergency diesel generator.  A malfunction occurred which has…

Carnival Dream Drydock Photos

In what is becoming a popular trend, and one I do enjoy, cruise lines have flocked to social media streams with updates from their ships drydockings. Here is an update from the Carnival Dream’s drydocking in Freeport, Bahamas.    …

Carnival Dream Goes to the Movies

Here is a story our of left field. It turns out that the third installment of the heavily scoffed at Alvin and the Chipmunks series will be taking place on the Carnival Dream.  The series stars Arrested Development’s Tobias Fünke…

Oasis, meet Dream; Dream, meet Epic; Epic, meet Oasis.

On Tuesday, the three flag ships and largest ships in their rival lines all met in St. Maarten. I am of course referring to the Carnival Dream, Norwegian Epic and the Oasis of the Seas. This unique meet-up was courtesy…

Tropical Storm [My Name is] Earl

UPDATE SUNDAY MORNING:  As Tropical storm Earl heads closer to the Leeward Islands, this morning brings a few more itinerary changes. Royal Caribbean will divert the Enchantment of the Seas to Samana, D.R. instead of St. Thomas tomorrow. Tuesday, she…

New Carnival Ship Will Be Called “Breeze”

This Just In… Carnival Breeze has been selected as the name for the line’s new 130,000-ton cruise ship scheduled to enter service in spring 2012. To be constructed by Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, the 3,690-passenger Carnival Breeze will be the third…

High-Res Carnival Dream Photos

Carnival released these high-res images of the Carnival Dream today. Some of them are typical, corny flickr photos but they are high-res. As you can tell, I have an addiction to high-res photos. Click the photo below and enjoy.  …

Carnival Dream Arrives

This morning the Carnival Dream arrived state side by sailing past the Statue of Liberty, up the Hudson River and right into the NYC Passenger Ship Terminals. The christening will take place today at 4:00pm EST. Click here to watch…

Carnival Dream Godmother

…is Marcia Gay Harden. The ceremony will take place tomorrow after Carnival’s flagship arrives in the U.S. for the first time. In an attempt to upstage Royal Caribbean and their Oasis of the Seas’, you’d think think that they would…

Slow

So it is kind of a slow time in the industry. The Dream is delivered and I am still looking for a good walk through of it. The Oasis is back and settled in from the Sea trials. In fact…

Carnival Dream Christening Info…

…Well only of the water park. The winner of the Carnival Book of Dreams contest, 8-year old Hailee Steberger of Egg Harbor, N.J., will have the honors of being the Carnival Dream’s water park Godchild. The Carnival Dream will be…

Carnival Will (give up) Title of Largest Ship

Today, Carnival Corp’s President and C.E.O. Micky Arison stated that “Queen Mary 2 is probably the biggest ship we will ever build. Carnival Dream…is probably as large as we will build for Carnival.” Mr. Arison continued on to state that…

Oasis and Dream

I update some of CruiseInd’s ship pages: The Carnival Dream page now has photos of her pulling into Venice while still on her maiden voyage. The Oasis of the Seas page now has some external shots of her departing Turku…

[ARCHIVED] Carnival Dream

This is an archived post that appeared on CruiseInd on Sep 24, 2009 @ 20:14 To view the old Carnival Dream page: click here – Carnival Dream Sailing into Venice this past weekend. ___________________________________________________________________          

Two tid-bits of news

Pretty slow recently. I’m eagerly awaiting photos from the Carnival Dream which has set sail on her maiden voyage. Carnival reported that it earned 1 Billion (not million) this summer. This is good news as Micky Arison stated that guests…

Carnival Dream Handover

These from John Heald’s Blog: Gerry Cahill accepting the Carnival Dream Micky Arison (worth $5.8 Billion for those wondering) C.E.O. of Carnival Corp.  is on the left with his back to the camera: Carnival Dream heading out: