Carnival Glory Review

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Can I get some room service please

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dolphirefighter
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: May 2012
Cabin: Balcony

Our trip started by making the drive to the Port of Miami. We live about two hours away, so it's very convenient to just hop in the car and go. We had our family drive us to avoid the $20 a day charge for parking at the pier. The port is easy to get to although you have to go through downtown Miami to get to it. The parking at this port can be quite confusing sometimes, but as mentioned before we were dropped of so it was quite easy. Now comes the dreaded part, security and embarkation.

We typically like to get to the ports early 11-12 usually. We like to get on the ship and spend time exploring before there are to many people on board. We arrived around 1030am this morning. We cleared security quickly, and they were not to unfriendly. They did pull our bag aside and inspect the 12 bottles of water we had. We headed upstairs to find approximately 100 or so people already checked in. We got checked in quickly and sat down and waited for embarkation. They had a nice comfortable place to the side that had maybe 50 chairs so we decided to relax their until they called us. While we waited we decided to get a drink from the soda machine, which was inoperable at the time. As we waited, we noticed it was now 11:15, no embarkation just yet, and at 11:30, boarding has been delayed......boring. So we sat there until about 13:00 before we were aloud to board the ship. The embarkation was more miserable than waiting the 2 hours to board the ship. As we walked up to the walkway, people were not moving very quickly. We finally get on the deck of the ship and guess what, it took 1/2 an hour to get to security on the ship to scan the card and take our pictures. This was the worst embarkation I've ever had. Next we headed straight for the dining room because they had our dining restaurant as my time dining on our card even though we selected early seating. We also wanted to sit with our friends. The dining staff were quick to change our reservations to early dining, but were unable to get us on a table with our friends, a little disappointing, but it was a pretty big group so it was quite understandable. After that we made our way to the stateroom, and then a ship tour.

We all know what comes next, the dreaded but mandatory evacuation drill. I'm all for safety and everyone knowing whats going on, so I very willingly participate, but this was by far the most miserable drill I ever had. We stood there for what seemed like 1/2 hour after the signal. Every two minutes, the cruise director would come on the PA and say you need to be quite, we can't start until your quite....for 1/2 an hour. Afterwards, we went to the room to wave from our balcony as we passed through South Beach. We were on our way.

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Balcony

Cabin 8D

We were in room 8401. This cabin is quite noisy as you have the pool deck above you. About midnight every night, you could hear them moving chairs around and whatever else they were doing up there. The room is a standard carnival room with a balcony. It's in the middle of the ship which was nice, the view was great. The room had plenty of space I thought, for three people. Three closets, two tiny drawers (one you can't use) and two larger drawers. I felt comfortable with the space. The Air conditioning is terrible in this room. If you get hot easily, this is not a room for you. If your cold natured...bingo :). The toilet always had a black ring in it and the shower clogged and over flowed twice on our cruise. The door lock on the bathroom door would stick occasionally, and the toilet flush button did not work from time to time

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