Carnival Glory Review
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What made this cruise exceptional was that Carnival called us at 6:30PM the night before we left and asked us if we would like to purchase an upgrade. We had purchased two rooms,one was in interior and the other was a ocean view. They wanted to know if I would like to upgrade the ocean view to a Grand Suite. The extra money for the upgrade was so worth it. We went from the second floor to the seventh floor. When you get a suite you get priority check in and priority getting off . We never wanted to leave our room.
As for the trip the weather was nothing like the forecasts I had read. The highest temperature was 62. We were in fog with the fog horn going off almost the entire trip, but that made the trip more awesome. Standing on the top deck looking back and only being able to see a small part of the ship was like no other cruise I had ever taken. If you take this cruise pack a lot of warm clothes! You do not need shorts and tank tops. You need pants and jackets.
We rented a car in Saint John and drove to Saint Martin to see the sea caves. They look just like the pictures. Be sure to bring water shoes or you will not be able to cross the streams to the caves. The entire area is covered in rocks and snails making it impossible to walk in bare feet. We were there at low tide and walked toward the ocean and around a bend and found two more caves that we had to ourselves. The drive to and from Saint John was easy and scenic.
Cabin Review
Grand Suite
The room is awesome. We had four people in the room almost the whole time and we had plenty of room. The closets light up which make it easy to find everything. The bathroom is huge. We did not fill up all of the drawers or closets. We could sit on our couch and look out at the ocean and had lots of room on the balcony for all of us.The rooms do not have much in the basket of freebies that everyone talked about. Ours only had a toothpaste and a hand cream. When you use the free stuff they do not add more. If you need wet things to dry just leave them in the bathroom, everything dried quickly. The room was very clean, but when in the jacuzzi you cannot help, but notice a lot of little things could use a new coat of paint. The suite does give you two plugs instead of one which with power strips gives you lots of room for charging batteries.