Carnival Glory Review
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We booked this family reunion cruise last August. There were 14 adults booked in 7 rooms on the Main floor (2) in oceanview rooms.
Let me start by saying that all of our other cruises were with Royal Caribbean. We've avoided Carnival because of their reputation as a party boat (loud, drinking, booze cruise). Unfortunately, my mom has always wanted to go to Nova Scotia (only Carnival had cruises there at the beginning of July) and since we were celebrating our parents 60 anniversary and 80th birthdays, we looked at cruises that would take us to Canada. There really wasn't any choice for the dates that all 14 of us could go, so we had to book on Carnival.
Embarkation was easy and pleasant. Some of our group flew in and some of us drove from the midwest arriving the day before. We had time to walk the Freedom Trail in the morning and still board around noon. We shuttled the luggage down to the dock and dropped everyone off and then my husband parked our van in the lot provided. It cost $60 for the 5 night cruise (we paid $35 for the one night at our hotel). Getting on the boat was very easy and everyone was pleasant.
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Ocean View
2380 - We chose this cabin because we wanted a midship cabin near an elevator for my mother (her's was 2362 - we had 7 rooms in a row for our family reunion). I was worried that the galley above would be noisy, but we didn't hear a thing! We even heard that everyone who had a balcony room in the floors above 5 were kept up all night with the fog horn, so we really liked our lower midship location! Also, my mother and father said that the elevators are too far away and around the corner to hear anything from them, so it worked out really well. Thought that the room was larger than our rooms on Royal Caribbean and had plenty of storage space.