Carnival Glory Review

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Carnival Glory Needs Work

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First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Jul 2008
Cabin: Balcony
Traveled with children

This was our third cruise, second with Carnival. We have also sailed with Royal Caribbean. The Carnival Glory is a large ship, it is the largest ship we have sailed on. We sailed with my three children, ages 2, 15 and 17 and my parents, both in their early 60's. My wife and I are in our early 40's. We had two balcony staterooms and one interior stateroom fairly close to one another one level below the lido deck, deck 8. We sailed from Port Canaveral and stayed at the Hilton for one night prior to sailing. This was nice because we were able to secure transportation to/from the port and leave our cars at the hotel parking lot. The drive from the hotel to the ship was nice but once we got to the port things started happening quickly.

I like the new luggage drop off that Carnival has put into place. Our van was able to pull up and have our bags immediately taken away by stewards and then placed directly into cages to be picked up by forklifts. We made sure all of our bags had our printable (pink) tags on them for our deck and were off on our way. We were barked at by a steward as we tried to cross behind our van to fall in line with other passengers, apparently we were in the way. We had to stand outside for quite some time before we entered the air conditioning. One nice lady did allow us to use the elevator though because we had a small child with us, this got us upstairs in front of quite a few people. The check-in process was quite hectic with two sides and not very good signage to figure out which way to go. We ended up going to the wrong side and they had our keys on the other side but our greeter was able to get them from the other side for us. The pictures started almost immediately and we managed to get one good one of all of us just prior to getting onto the boat. Once we got on board we were all shuffled through the same doors into the main lobby area of the ship. This area is just beautiful with a 6 or 7 story atrium with glass at the top, glass elevators going up on the right side, a small stage with piano and a monster bar overlooking it all. People were milling around and there weren't any places to sit so we decided to go up to the lido deck and find something to eat. Deck 9 was the Lido area with the pools and the all you can eat restaurant called Red Sail. Outside there are several bars and ice cream stands along with a buffet line with hot dogs and hamburgers and really, really good french fries. We were able to find a seat but it was outside and kind of warm. We were told that our rooms would not be available until after 1:30 pm and we had arrived around 1:00 pm. The food we enjoyed was good and they also got us with the drink of the day so we started our sign and sail card immediately.

At 1:30 we ventured to our rooms, one floor down from the lido deck on deck 8. The location was nice, immediately downstairs from the Red Sail restaurant but there was also a downside to it that I'll get to in a little while. The rooms were made up and several of us already had one or two of our bags outside the room so the new process really seems to work well. The rooms themselves were great. We had a balcony stateroom with the couch made into a single bed for our young 2 year old son. My parents had a balcony stateroom with a couch and then my two older kids had an interior stateroom. All rooms were nice, had PLENTY of storage and were very comfortable. Even the bathrooms were not too small and I'm a pretty big guy at 6'1" and 240 lbs. The balcony was a little small but still had two chairs and a small table. The best part is that it was very heavy and had a high lock on it so my wife did not have to worry about our child going out there by himself. He was able to open the main cabin door by himself though so that was of some concern, at night we would put a chair in front of the door in case he got up, fortunately he never did.

Cabin Review

Balcony

Cabin 8C

Loud cabin, could hear chairs sliding around upstairs on the Lido deck. Very good location though, close to stairs to the Red Sail Restaurant.

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