Update – Carnival Cruise Lines has decided to repatriate passengers on the 2009 built Carnival Dream by air after the ship has suffered technical problems while in St Maarten, Cruise Critic reports on its website. The next cruise of the 3,646 passenger ship has also been cancelled.
Carnival Dream remains docked in St. Maarten's Great Bay while personnel continue to work on the technical issue. The line said it is making arrangements to fly passengers home via private charter flights and scheduled flights from St. Maarten. Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen told Cruise Critic the line doesn't anticipate issues repatriating passengers sailing without passports. "We are currently interfacing with St. Maarten and U.S. authorities to work through that."
"We have had multiple conversations with the ship's management team. Based on the ship's service logs and extensive physical monitoring of all public areas, including restrooms, throughout the night, we can confirm that only one public restroom was taken offline for cleaning based on toilet overflow and there was a total of one request for cleaning of a guest cabin bathroom. Aside from that there have been no reports of issues on board with overflowing toilets or sewage. The toilet system had periodic interruptions yesterday evening and was fully restored at approximately 12.30 a.m." he said.
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A problem with its power supply system has forced Carnival Cruise Line’s 3,646 passenger capacity Carnival Dream to stay in St Maarten, where the issue is being dealth with.
The company have posted the following message on their Facebook page: "The Carnival Dream has a technical issue which our engineering team is currently working on. The ship is at dock in St. Maarten. At no time did the ship lose power but there were periodic interruptions to elevators and toilets for a few hours last night. However at this time all hotel systems are functioning normally and have been functional since approximately 12.30am. The ship has full power but is still at dock while personnel continue to work on the technical issue."
A member of Cruise Critic.com posted the following on a board of the site: “We were to leave St Martin at 5 yesterday and now at 3 am, we are still here in port. At first, no toilets or elevators. Those back on but "mechanical " issues. No updates since 9 pm. We are supposed to be at sea today and Friday to make it back to Canaveral by Sat morning. As a fellow cruise critic member and know how excited I was this week last time, and have friends boarding this sat also, thought you guys may want to keep an eye out on carnival site and webcam to see if we are moving. We are more than 10 hrs behind schedule at this point."