Carnival Glory Review
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We flew to Orlando the day before departure. We used hotwire.com to book our hotel. We got the Sheraton Suites hotel which was fantastic. They had a free shuttle that picked us up and took us to the hotel. At the end of the street was a Denny's that you could walk to easily. There was a restaurant at the hotel as well. There is also complimentary internet access in a little room just off of the lobby.
The next morning we took a shuttle back to the airport to catch the shuttle for Enterprise Rent A Car. We picked up the car and drove 45 minutes to drop it off at the Port Canaveral office. It is important to note that if you want to catch the free shuttle from Enterprise to the ship that you arrive at Enterprise before noon as they close at that time. You are still able to drop the car but you will need to pay for a taxi to get to the pier. We found the car rental to be a great choice as we only paid $37 on the Saturday as we only had it for half a day.
We arrived at the pier and embarkation was fairly simple except that we had a previous issue with Carnival that we were unable to resolve. When booking, if you do not want to purchase Carnival's insurance you need to let them know immediately or advise your travel agent as they automatically charge you and you are expected to decline this on your own. Our travel agent said that he declined the insurance, however they charged us for it anyway $316 U.S. and would not refund any of the money. As a result we chose to set up a cash only sail and sign account as we were not going to charge anything to our account and we were choosing to tip the cabin steward and dining staff independently. Over the course of the week my husband and I each received three notices stating that we had not charged anything to our account. We tipped the appropriate people accordingly with cash in an envelope and on the last night we got a letter stating that they had applied gratuities to our account. I went to the purser's desk and the woman serving me was very helpful and promptly removed the charges from our account.