I can't believe how quickly a week can pass. After waiting for over 1 year we are back from the Glory Christmas sailing from Dec. 23 to 30.

I'll start out by saying that I have had to learn the difference between being a critic and being critical and making judgments and being judgmental. What I share is my experience and my opinion based on one other cruise for comparison. Others may have had a different experience on the same cruise. I'll try to be clear on stating objective facts and my subjective opinions.

This was a family cruise that included my husband, age 42, myself, age 46 both have cruised once with Carnival and in the very far past (1980s with RCCL and Cunard), sister-in-law (39) and brother-in-law (40), their children: niece (13), nephew (7), niece (5) and sister-in-law (45) and her daughter (8). Read more