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When you board the ship, usually the maître d will be in the forward main dining room from around 1 pm to about 230. You can request a change at that time or he will tell you when you can. I'm the same way, so when it is just the two of us, I request a booth and never have been denied. A table for more than 4 should be no problem

I totally agree with Drazil65.

#1, if you have a bed problem, then why don't the three of you rotate the beds each night or an agreed upon arrangement. You get clean sheets everyday, so there should not be a problem.

As far as the eating problem and cross contamination, I'm not sure what you mean. If you are concerned, when you arrive onboard, usually between 1pm and around 2 to 239, the maître did in the forward main dining room to change seating arrangements. You could request a table for just the 6 of you. If he is not there on the day you board, then request one that night when you go at your dining time.

We usually try and get one of the Aft rooms on the Main deck, because of the extra room. It has a port hole and if you look, the room is bigger. They are hard to get, because everyone else wants them, so you have to book early. The only time it gets noisy is when you leave port and come into port, other wise it is very quiet. Example is 2470, 2474, 1377 and 2473. They change from ship to ship.

We use Galveston Park n cruise. Its directly across the street from the Cruise terminal. If you reserve online, I think you get a small discount. Get a inside parking space, you park your car inside a building, that is secured until your ship returns. I have had excellent service from them and highly recommend them.

What do you take on your cruise to solve the one outlet issue in your cabin? My husband uses a CPAP and I want to make sure we have enough outlet space to charge the camera battery and our phones as well as run the CPAP. From reading on the Carnival site I see it can't have a surge protector as part of the strip.

I use a CPAP. We use a surge protector and a 18 foot extension cord. The kind you use for Christmas lights.

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Didn't know you could do self assist on check in. We keep our backpacks and that's it. We do self assist on debarkation and love it. We've tried FTTF and feel like it's a rip off.

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I would think that a lot of the crew would be moved to another ship to finish out there contract and those that are at the end of their contract go home on vacation. Those crew members, such as maintenance or engineering would stay on board to assist on the refit.

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I've read alot of these posts and the sea trade cruise news. I feel the same way most of you do. I don't like change either, especially high tech changes.

I like the sail and sign cards also and going to something even smaller is even scarier. For me, alot will depend on what the cruise lines will do, if you loose your medallion and someone uses it to charge to your acct. Having more info out there on these medallions is scary. But this is for the cruise lines benefit, not ours. Can they protect us. Will have to wait and see.

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Yes, always two in each room. If you need more, just ask your room steward

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Ddbaab is right real easy and very reasonable. Don't remember exactly.

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As long as he doesn't try and buy alcohol, I would imagine he shouldn't have any problem.

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nd on your age. My wife and I are in our 60's and prefer the smaller ships. Some are just as nice as the big ones and others really show their age. We like the smaller ships because a lot less people. We like the big ones also, but feel like we're in rush hour traffic all the time.

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Librat is correct. If you can get along without anything in the suitcase until later in the day, then check it when you arrive, other wise you'll have to lug it around til you can get to your room.

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Since this is your first. I would contact carnival and talk to one of their agents. They can answer all of your questions and help you with your question about your "maybe guest". They can answer your questions about rooms, what's included and what cost extra.

Depending where you live, I would try and sail out of the closest port. Try not to fly this time unless you absolutely have to. Good luck

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For some reason airfare is nearly $1,000 more for my family of 5 to fly into Bush Intercontinental than it is to fly into Dallas. It looks like Dallas is only 3 hours and 26 minutes away from Bush Intercontinental, so I'm wondering if it would make sense to fly into Dallas, rent a car, and just park it at the cruise terminal. Has anybody done this before? Is the drive from Dallas bad? Are there a lot of tolls and/or traffic? Are there any fees to get onto Galveston Island or the Port of Galveston other than the fee to park?

Me personally, I would pay the extra $1000 than drive IH35 from Dallas to Galveston. But like the others said try flying into Hobby airport. It's the closest to Galveston. You can also get a Carnival shuttle from Hobby. Just look on Carnival website.

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I've been reading a lot of positive things about cove balconies. It seems the most common thing is to avoid is staying under the galley. But looking at the deck plans for the Dream, it seems every room is under some sort of public area. Either the galley, dining room, lounge, or dance floor. So how much noise can be heard from these other areas on the Dream?

 

 

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We had a cove balcony on the conquest. We chose one that was under the last life boat and just to the right was the walkway onto the ship. It was great. We got some sun and some shade. We did not have any problems with noise.

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You should be able to do it through her booking if you can get on her booking. If not you can call Carnival and purchase it that way

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Haven't been on the breeze, but have been on Magic. Have. Also been on ships the size of the Freedom. We prefer the smaller ships if the amenities have been up dated. Magic and the bigger ships are just to big for us. If a big ship has an itenary we want we will go, but prefer the smaller ships.

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Worked great for us, back in February.

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We're booked in April 2018.

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The price of the cruise my wife and I have booked in 2018, dropped. Anyone able to tell me how to go about getting a refund for the price difference?

Jim

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Triumph has tw serenity levels. Deck 12 & 14.

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Hi, We're interested in anyone who has stayed in one of the rear facing balconies on the Ecstasy. We love the rear of the ship and think it would be cool to be able to sit on our balcony and watch the wake from the rear.

Can anyone tell us about it or who has a few pics to share.

Jim&Pam

Hi,

Let me throw this out here. I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but please read to the end of this post.

We do all of our excursions through tripadvisor. We do not go through Carnival. We get cheaper and better excursions. Just be sure that they are high on the rating scale, just so you don't have to worry about getting back to the ship.

If you are going to Aruba, then let me also suggest "Barefoot Restaurant" for a romantic sunset dinner. We got there about 530 and had a table right out by the water. It was great. The food was excellent and the people were very polite. Jim & Pam

Passengers from the late November and early to mid-December sailings on the Carnival Liberty are being shuffled over to the Freedom, and they actually had to cancel one of the Freedom cruises to accommodate the change as the Liberty will be going to Dry Dock. Seems that they would normally plan these things out before booking the cruises, rather than changing things around less than a year before the sailing (other than for urgent repairs). My sailing on the Liberty is actually after the ship is due back from dry-dock, but still makes me a little nervous as to what happens if they don't get the work done in time.

 

Anyone know what the reason for the dry-dock is?

Hi amlord, Every ship has to go in for routine maintenance and what they call refitting. They update them and make them more modern and add new additions. Such as a Serenity deck, if the ship does not have one or update and make nicer and bigger water slides. Maybe a big screen TV on the pool deck. Update the casino, such things as that.

This takes about 4 to 6 weeks.

Jim & Pam