Carnival Dream Mediterranean Cruise, Oct 15 - Oct 27, 2009 - DONE

Zydecocruiser and Elizabeth, Life in a Carnival Dream Cove Balcony

Rome, Civitavecchia, Naples, Venice, Dubrovnik, Messina, Barcelona, Monaco, Livorno, Civitavecchia

Port Weather, Carnival Dream Ship, Capers, Menus

The number one question I get is what camera am I using. For this cruise I used a Panasonic FZ35	I use Photoshop Elements to batch process the photos, resizing them to something more reasonable and also auto-fixing colors, etc.

ALMOST LIVE !!! First a quick stop in Paris! Paris, KY, that is! Fly out of Cincinnati on Tuesday. I cannot believe how much crap I packed. Oh well.

The first of two consecutive Carnival Dream cruises, this is a 12 day cruise and the following cruise is a 16 day Transatlantic crossing making a total of 28 days on Carnival Dream. The ship, Carnival's largest to date, will still be new - the Oct 15th cruise is only the third sailing. Most of the inevitable problems with new ships should be identified and hopefully resolved by now.

I will, no doubt, take way too many pictures of everything! Stay tuned...

We will have one of the Cove Balcony staterooms on this cruise!

Carnival Dream Cove Balcony Cabin

A mock up of a Carnival Dream Cove Balcony can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_3tN7z8kc

Follow the Dream: http://marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?MMSI=370490000

There she is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5wAn0ObKCY { Amateur video Carnival Dream sea trials }

Pictorial Guide to Carnival Dream Cove Balconies

Some snaps from webcam2 on the pre-inaugural reposition cruise here

Some snaps from webcam1 and 2 on the Day 1/2 Inaugural cruise here

Carnival Dream Leaving Venice: here

Looky - links to some whopper sized Carnival Dream Pictures HERE

Carnival Dream Webcams have lit up! See here

Port Weather

Carnival Dream Ship - Staff, Cove Balcony, Ship Features...

00 Pre-Cruise - Rome

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Hotel dei Consoli, Castel Sant'Angelo, Pizza Margarita

Rome to Civitavecchia - Breakfast at Hotel dei Consoli, Lots of backtracking in Rome, finally the ship!

01 Thu Oct 15, Civitavecchia, Italy, Depart 7:00pm (Carnival Dream, NCL Gem)

02 Fri Oct 16, Naples, Italy, 7:00am-6:00pm (Carnival Dream, MSC Sinfonia)

03 Sat Oct 17, Fun Day at Sea

Page 5 - Captain's Party. Great food, Get Ready

04 Sun Oct 18, Venice, Italy, 2:00pm-Overnight (Carnival Dream, RCCL Legend OTS, MSC Musica, Oceana Nautica, Oceana Regatta, Celebrity Summit)

05 Mon Oct 19, Venice, Italy, Overnight-3:00pm (RCCL Brilliance OTS, Carnival Dream, Crystal Serenity, RCCL Legend OTS, MSC Armonia)

06 Tue Oct 20, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 10:00am-7:00pm (Carnival Dream, RCCL Legend OTS)

07 Wed Oct 21, Fun Day at Sea - Whew!

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08 Thu Oct 22, Messina, Sicily, Italy, 7:00am-5:00pm (Carnival Dream, MSC Splendida)

09 Fri Oct 23, Fun Day at Sea

10 Sat Oct 24, Barcelona, Spain, 7:00am-5:00pm (Carnival Dream, Celebrity Century)

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Update = Barcelona is being skipped and replaced with another sea day. We would have preferred a second day in Livorno, but Carnival failed to ask us for our opinion!