Carnival Glory Review

Carnival Glory has a great lido deck!

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Glory
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Sail Date: Oct 2014
Cabin: Interior Upper/Lower

The Glory is on the medium/large size level now, in this mega ship era we are in, but if the airports had half the effencicy Carnival has, they would be ahead. Embarking and debarkation was smooth and short. Tender waits were very bearable, and not an issue at all. The shore excursions were all the top rated places on the ports, and were even cheaper than if you had done it on your own. The Glory has a large lido deck that has most of the crowd dancing in the sun. They played lots of carribean music and modern twists of it, like the Cha cha slide, the wobble, all the main dance hip-songs. Carnival is known for fun, so you expect it, and they deliver consistently. The energy on the ship is higher than many, (even some other Carnival ships) and the food offerings do have choices for everyone. Some of the really choicest food will be found in the adult areas, or the deli, such as cold cured salmon/lox, and we all know that is not cheap! I have read many reviews about negative food, and they have had to cut back obviously over the past ten years in some areas to be able to even offer these cruises at the rates they do. I would have liked more puddings than cakes, but frankly could do without either! If you eat normally, and do not expect five course $100 dinners every night, or a buffet open 24/7 you will be fine. Pizza is always available, and burgers most human times of eating. Ordering the steaks from the prime steakhouse, off the regular dining menus will let you have a great steak dinner if one of you maybe does not want steak a certain night, and you dont have to do it every night, but the reservation restaurants like the steakhouse rival anything on land. The staff of Carnival is wonderful, effecient, and very pleasant and helpful. It is truly incredible, on a miracle level, how genuinely friendly these people are, considering the amount of people they deal with all the time. The shows are great fun, top notch singers and dancers. You will love Carnival Glory if you like to people watch, and enjoy an energetic time. If you want some quiet times, you can find it too, but if that is all you want, then the fun times won't be why you're cruising. I wish the port times were longer, but other than that, I will always love Carnival, and while we were in a lower price cabin, the beds were clean and soft with quality linens, and more than adequate, as we don't hang out in a room on a cruise. Carnival gives you exceedingly more than your moneys worth in todays dollar. That is the bottom line. Thank you Carnival!

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Interior Upper/Lower

If you have no complaints in the lower cabins, as I did not have, then the more pricey ones will likely astound you. Perhaps the fresh air of an balcony room would be something I would have loved, but the beds were more than fine, and enough room for two of us. The showers have curtains, instead of an enclosure, and this might be better for larger people, as they are smallish areas as you expect. If you a normal size even the enclosed ones (other ships) will be okay, but I like the extra room a curtain gives you. Great design in the bathroom storage, and they dazzle me always!

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