I've taken reviews about the one I'm about to write with a grain of salt, figuring that the reviewers were new cruisers, had too high expectations, got in a snit over one incident, were generally sour people, etc. I hope that this review is not one of those, it's issued as a warning to those who are reviewing taking an unusual trip around the New England area after having done Europe and other itineraries to death.

So, you want an overpriced cruise where ½ the crew was just hired last week, has never worked in a restaurant before, much less on a cruise ship and is therefore clueless? You want a ship so small that it can't handle two-foot swells, much less, (God forbid) 4 foot or 7 foot? You want a cruise where your itinerary gets changed pretty much every day? You want a ship that has intermittent electrical and air conditioning problems? You want a ship where you're told that the ship would dock at all the ports only to have 2 ports tendered thereby stranding some of the elderly and infirm on-board? American Glory is your ship!

Launched twelve years ago, the ship is in need of a refurb and full of quirks. With a 50 passenger compliment, it's got some of the largest cabins I've ever seen in over 20 years of ocean, lake and river cruising. It floats like a cork in a bottle and wallows over every little bump in the ocean. My wife has only been seasick once in all of our cruises until the infamous "bingo storm" of August 10. The ship has no telephone in the cabins, leaving no way to contact each other room to room or the ship, a constant worry due to our having two of our party in their mid-80s and frail having no way to contact the ship's crew when they stayed aboard on several ports. There is no dedicated bar (simply too small) although a table was set up in the lounge every day at 5:30 for cocktails. There is no front desk, only a small office that was not manned very often, so your needs for your cabin often had to wait to be filled until you could track someone down. The free internet is less than intermittent, which everyone pretty much understood would happen in extremely rural areas, but it was a pain and even in ports where you would think there would be good access, you had to sit down right next to the mobile hot spots in the public areas to connect. Read more