Do you know that horrible feeling you get when your new car, for the first time does not start? Well I got that feeling about 20 min before I was to leave my house to drive to Florida to begin my 7 night cruise October 21st on the Carnival Glory. After we recharged the battery my two friends and I(we were all 23 at the time) began our 15 hour drive to Florida. We had the intention of never turning off the car until we arrived at our destination Our destination was the comfort inn on sand lakes drive in Orlando Florida. Plan was to stay in Orlando for the evening and check out Universal Studios City Walk. If you have the time it would be recommended that you get to at least the general area of your port the day before to lessen the possibly of being late to the port and to get a little extra rest before the cruise officially begins.

Day 1 Embarkation We left our hotel around 10:30 and arrived at port Canaveral around 11:15. I had done a little research on the port just about parking situation and cost before I left Maryland. Its well displayed on how to get to the Glory's embarkation area. When we pulled up we waited in our cars for about 5 min until we got up to drop off our luggage to be checked in. There is a sign saying the porters do not work for tips and tipping is not needed. However, they will ask for tips. If you plan to check in something that is possibly breakable, I would not suggest it. There was no reserve when it came to stacking and moving luggage. Next was to drive around to the parking garage. We sat in this line for about 15 min. We paid our 84 dollars and went to the parking garage. We then carried our few pieces of luggage and cooler to the security line. It took us maybe 10 min to get through security and another 10 min to check in since we filled out the documents online months before. At 12:45 we finally were onboard the Carnival Glory. When get onboard the gangplank takes drops you directly on the port (left) left outer deck 3. Once we entered the inside of deck 3 we were lobby area. Lobby was pretty crowded because the area in which the rooms are had the fire doors closed so that guests could not get to their rooms. Our room was on the Upper deck forward. We were able to get to our room because someone opened the door to walk from the room area and we just grabbed it before it closed.

The room Too see pictures of the room you can just look at Carnivals website to see what the balcony stateroom looks like. The room was clean of course and the only complaint was that the door to the bathroom would not shut properly. However it would close, just would not lock and if you opened up the balcony door during high winds the bathroom door would only crack open a little bit. Like most showers on cruises the water leaks uncontrollably out of the shower. The balcony came with 2 deck chairs and a small table. The room stewards were very helpful. And room service was prompt and used very often. The selection of the food though was not the best, but my friends would order 4 shrimp salad sandwiches about 3 times per day. Read more