We boarded the Carnival Glory on January 10th for a cruise of the Western Caribbean. Our trip was booked through AAA Northern new England and our thanks goes out to Ruth for the shipboard credits, the champagne and chocolate fruit platter we discovered in our rooms upon boarding.

We flew into MCO a day early, luckily so in hindsight considering the abysmal weather in the northeast soon after. We stayed at the Quality Inn Airport for the night. While the hotel was nothing fancy, it was comfortable and clean though the toilet was mysteriously slow in refilling in spite of excellent water pressure in the sink and shower both. The bar prices were also quite reasonable and the hotel brought us to a delicious German restaurant for dinner. The restaurant was located approximately a mile and a half from the hotel.

We chartered a private shuttle through Around the Clock USA to bring us to the cruise port on Saturday morning. There was a hitch getting the shuttle to arrive but everything was straightened out in the end and we made it to Port Canaveral just fine. Embarkation went as smoothly as embarkations do however the baggage handlers managed to ruin our garment bag during loading. A garment bag without a functioning zipper is just a lumpy rug. Read more