Carnival Glory Review

Worst cruise ever....

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marthasunny
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Jun 2011
Cabin: Balcony

The Carnival Glory is the Walmart of cruise experiences. Just like Walmart, the cruise was offered at a "cheaper price" since having a New York City embarkation port saves me on airfare. Otherwise, the price was comparable to many other cruises I've done. However, the cruise just met the bare minimum of expectations for a cruise... kind of like it did with its sanitation report earlier this year. (Look at its Center of Disease Control report. It was one of the worst cruises.) This cruise has completely turned me away from Carnival.

ROOM: We had a balcony room on the spa level (deck 11). There is no balcony above it - only open air and an adults-only deck area. We had cigarette butts, crumbled pieces of paper, and sanitary napkins land on our deck from above. This completely ruined the balcony experience. Don't ask me how they got on our balcony; I'm just reporting the facts.

SPA: We went to the "Secrets of a Flatter Stomach" seminar. The spa / gym supervisor gave the presentation, and he "pulled numbers out of a hat" to get his points across. For instance, he commented that people spend the average person $600 a year on multivitamins. Really? The seminar lasted over an hour and was full of inaccurate information which he justified by stating that he had a biochemistry degree and many years of experience with personal training. So what!!! . Towards the end of the seminar, the supervisor started talking about detox and all of the various expensive products he wanted to sell us! I just did a pubmed search about detox diet, and the overwhelming majority stated that there is no scientific proof that these diets help get rid of toxins faster. Most people quicly regain any weight that they may have lost. ACTIVITIES: Out of many cruises that I've experienced, this one has the least amount of activities throughout the day. Plus, most of the available activities fell into three categories - "under maintenance", "overly crowded", or "extra charge". For instance, the slide was open for only two hours during the entire cruise, and the weather was fine for much more than those two hours. It was almost 100*F in New York on the first day. When I called about this, guest relations first assured me that the slide was open, so I volunteered to bring them a picture that it was not. Then they spoke to the pool staff who kept pushing the date of the slide opening by 2 hours…. so that it did not reopen. At other times, such as during the comedy show, cooking demonstration, etc, there was limited standing room available, unless one came very early. Example of one day's free activities (not including singers at various bars): 7:30 am sunrise stretch class, 9 am friend of Bill W/ Jimmy K, 1 pm Grease, the sing-along movie, 1 pm basketball free throw, 2 pm bean bag, 3 pm (mini golf), 7 big screen trivia, 7:45 gender showdown, 8:30 sixty seconds or less, 10 pm love and marriage show. Again, very few activities compared to other cruises especially since we're talking about 3,000 cruise passengers!

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