I am interested in wether or not the Dream is sailing in the year-2011. My wife and I would like to go to Rome-Italy. So, I would like a response back. I am interested in Carnival Cruise lines. I am always on the website, I am that committed to knowing a lot about Carnival. Please, re-ply.

I would like to you about the Carnival dream. My question is to ask you if the dream is going to set sail in the month of November of 2011 on a 16 day cruise to Rome,Italy. I want to go on that year for a vacation with my wife and friends. When every you get a change please let me know.

Thank you
Rickey

Please reply

Reading through your blogs and other’s comments, I see you are a cigar smoker. I too enjoy a nice cigar and have been known to bring some pretty good ones home from some of my cruises. I keep a humidor well stocked and try to never rush through a cigar smoking experience.
After reading that you enjoy the pleasure of a cigar, I wondered what is your favorite? Do you have one or do you try lots of different brands? I would think with your travel you have found some great ones. I will be on the Dream December 3 and am certainly looking forward to that. I hope to party with Big Ed’s krewe and also meet many of the folks I read about all the time. Who knows, maybe we can even share a drink and cigar sometime during the cruise! That would be great!! Maybe we can even swap a cigar or two. I would certainly love that. I usually do not comment on blogs, I am just a reader, but I wanted to ask you about these things. I am looking forward to meeting you on our cruise in December! Hope your family are doing well. In the meantime, Happy
Cruising!!

As one who was raised in a family of smokers (and have seen the unfortunate results of that addiction) I completely understand that smokers must have a place to smoke.

Unfortunately (as in real life with other issues) the 90% of respectful smokers are having to deal with more and more restrictions due to the 10% of smokers who just do not care who they harm.

The last two cruises (Glory and Valor) really highlighted this problem. As you know, smoking in the casino on both ships is restricted to the carpet area. This is to prevent the exposure to children walking down the Promenade.

On both cruises, a small group of smokers who were displeased with this rule…literally stood ON the edge of the carpet and blew smoke into the Promenade at people walking by. (adults and children)

Now “technically” they were ON the carpet and were “in the right”…. but their actions will result in the casino area have MORE restrictions like you have already told us about on the Dream.

Sadly, smokers have no one but themselves to blame.

The same thing with smoking in the cabins. Smoking in the hallways is strictly forbidden, but the 10% of careless smokers prop their cabin door open (pouring smoke into the hallways) because they do not want to sit in their own waste. And it travels down the hallways and into nonsmoking cabins (especially on the Fantasy class where the doors have the extended openings at the bottom).

As sad as I am that anyone has that kind of addiction, protection of children is paramount. As long as Carnival Cruise Line promotes itself as a “family cruise line” … then the care of children must trump the addiction of an adult.

Everyone has “rights”, but the bottom line is that no one has the “right” to harm another human being and especially not a child.

Yes, perfumes and farts may stink….but they do not contain 3,000 toxins…many of which are carcinogens. Even folks who are “allergic” to some kinds of perfumes are the exception…not the rule. And you do not set the “rules” based on the exceptions. But all smoke contain the cancer causing irritants that can do real damage to children’s lungs, even with just short exposures.

Limiting the exposure to cigarette smoke is indeed the way the world is going because 20+ years of proven studies have finally told us what we have known all along.

I am glad to see Carnival working towards that goal of “having a place for all smokers to smoke” while protecting their other guests and children.

Speaking of children, Gary B. (CD on the Valor) did indeed include a comment to all parents that when their Camp Carnival aged children were not in Camp Carnival…that they were indeed the parent’s responsibility AND that they should refrain their children from running around the ship to help keep other passengers safe!

That is not an exact quote….but I can tell you he got the point across while being professional and well spoken.

Linda (Mom of your friend DJ)

What a great idea. To bad Heidi most likely read it.

BIG ED

Reading through your blogs and other’s comments, I see you are a cigar smoker. I too enjoy a nice cigar and have been known to bring some pretty good ones home from some of my cruises. I keep a humidor well stocked and try to never rush through a cigar smoking experience.
After reading that you enjoy the pleasure of a cigar, I wondered what is your favorite? Do you have one or do you try lots of different brands? I would think with your travel you have found some great ones. I will be on the Dream December 3 and am certainly looking forward to that. I hope to party with Big Ed’s krewe and also meet many of the folks I read about all the time. Who knows, maybe we can even share a drink and cigar sometime during the cruise! That would be great!! Maybe we can even swap a cigar or two. I would certainly love that. I usually do not comment on blogs, I am just a reader, but I wanted to ask you about these things. I am looking forward to meeting you on our cruise in December! Hope your family are doing well. In the meantime, Happy Cruising!

Johnny

Got to thinking about your dilemma with your anniversary plans..

Why can’t you get one of the Grandma’s in on the planning? Arrange everything secretly with them.

Here’s a possible plan.

1) Figure out who can stay at home with Kye and arrange to have them show up a day or two early and hide them in a hotel nearby.

2) Make the getaway arrangements.

3) Give Heidi a gift of a long spa or salon day during the time the “sitter” is in town to get her out of the house for a while. Might wanna throw in a little shopping time.

4) While she’s gone, have your helper come and pack Heidi’s bags for her and hide them…..you’ll never get it right! lol Get them back out of the house before she comes home.

5) Wake Heidi up on the day you are to depart with breakfast in bed, complete with getaway reservation info on breakfast tray delivered by Mum and you together!

Good Luck!

My first Carnival cruise was November 2004 with my family. You were the cruise director then and probably the main reason I have now cruised with Carnival six times since. I think you are awesome and I love the Carnival product. I learned about your blog thingy recently and now read it daily. I find your musings very clever and I think you are doing a wonderful service for Carnival customers/guests. I am in Marketing and I think your blog thingy is a very valuable tool for Carnival. I hope you will continue as long as possible. I love the notices you post from the Guest Relations desk. They make me laugh to no end. I think you should publish a book of just those notices. I would buy it.

I am sailing on Carnival Spirit to Alaska in June 2010. I am leaving from Carnival’s newest Port of Seattle. My question is an easy one: Seattle has two piers, (Pier 91 near Magnolia Bridge and Pier 66 near Downtown Seattle) which pier will the Spirit be using? I ask this because I would like to get a head start on hotel reservations as I will be flying up a few days before we sail away.

P.S. I am half French but I still love you
Dieu vous bénissent

Genevieve