My husband and I traveled on the Glory in her inaugural year and loved it, so we thought we'd give another go. We do love to travel and cruising is a great way to go to a lot of places and not have to pack and unpack several times.

We traveled to the port with a friend of ours who was watching our dog for the week. Living in central Florida is an advantage as we are close to Pt. Canaveral and Tampa. After breakfast we headed to the port and got in line for check in. Check in, as the prior trip, was pretty quick and painless. The lines were long, but they moved pretty quickly. We were on board no more than an hour after pulling up out in front of the terminal.

We booked a balcony guarantee and were delighted that we were up on the Lido deck, cabin 9290, which afforded some great views later on in the trip. Our stateroom wasn't quite ready when we got on board, and frankly we weren't expecting it to be. We had lunch at the buffet and had a couple drinks that the drink pushers were carrying around and just kind of chilled out up on deck for a while. Then went to our cabin. It was ready and our luggage arrived fairly early. I think it may have arrived before we left port. We enjoyed the balcony as we set sail and could even see the VAB at Kennedy Space Center as we were leaving. I will say this, the cabin service was great. I wish I could remember her name, but she always kept the room very clean and made up. The only gripe we had about the room was that one of the chairs on the balcony was broken, and not to where we couldn't use it either. One of the adjustable arms didn't work-big deal. It just had a permanent recline. Read more