This was our 13th cruise. Usually we do one cruise in February and another in July or August, but we decided to book this four-day to Canada as a Labor Day weekend getaway. We did the same cruise four years ago, and we've done three of the 5-day Canada cruises as well. Sailing were DH and me and our two younger sons, 14 and 10. Oldest son is on his own cruise, on a tanker in the South China Sea. This is the second cruise we've sailed on Glory - the first was an Eastern Caribbean cruise out of Port Canaveral in 2009.
The week of our cruise was the week that Hurricane Earl decided to visit the East Coast. We kept watching the predicted path of the storm - right up the Bay of Fundy - and compared it to our itinerary - right up the Bay of Fundy, just about at the same time. I truly figured we would end up with the four-day cruise to nowhere. However, as we approached our sailing date, and as we saw other ships' itineraries changing, Carnival was insisting that no changes to the itinerary were planned.
Day 1: New York and Embarkation
Cabin 1112 is a nice four-berth balcony cabin, but (a) it's too close to the spa and Camp Carnival for noise purposes, (b) there is no overhang on the balcony, so in bad weather the balcony is unusable, and (c) the sliding door to the balcony is nice, but it slides with the ship's movement.