I am finally at a point where I have a bit of energy and time now to recap my recent cruise on the Carnival Glory...sea legs are gone and its back to work on tomorrow ...I needed to take some extra days off after my vacation to regroup, lol.

On to my review...It was my husband and I on the Carnival Glory for the first time. We are in our mid-thirties. This was my 5th cruise and my husband's 3rd cruise. If it were possible, I would have preferred to leave for Florida the day before but since it was not possible this time around, so we booked the first flight out of Memphis on our May 3rd departure date. The first mishap we encountered was regarding our flight. At about 11pm May 2nd, something kept tugging me to check my cell phone for voicemails and reluctantly I went ahead and did it. To my surprise, there was a voicemail recording from US Airways stating my 6:03a flight was going to be delayed by 5hrs ..then another voicemail stating the flight had been cancelled ....yes, panic set in very quickly and I was on the phone with US Airways from about 11:15pm until 1am trying to get rebooked with another airline. They finally got us booked with Delta for a 7:15a departure time...needless to say once at the airport, Delta had a mechanical delay and we were called to their desk so they could rebook us as well. They stated we would not make the flight connection in Charlotte due to the delay. Sooooooo, Delta ended up rebooking us first class with Northwest Airlines. (Sidenote: I was against ever flying on NWA due to 2 bizarre exact dreams I had about a year ago on 2 separate occasions, so I refused to ever go NWA)...needless to say, I was really freaked out of getting on that flight...I really panicked , but since I am here letting you all know of my return from the Glory, I survived the NWA flight lol.

We FINALLY arrived at MCO and our shuttle bus was waiting for us. I finally was able to calm down and we were headed to Port Canaveral to board the Glory. Check in was super fast and we had no problems at this point. We were booked on the Riviera deck cabin 1270 ocean view (We would have booked on a higher deck but we had last minute booking changes in January and pickings were slim). I was content with the cabin and we hardly felt any movement. Formal nights were Sunday and Thursday (both sea days)...we ate in the Supper Club on both formal nights and we only ate in the formal dining room on our very first night, all other times we ate on the Lido because we had 6:15p dining, but with the port days and all, we didn't feel like having to rush to shower/change and hurry to the dining room. The food for some reason this time around was not the greatest...could be that it was buffet, I don't know. But we really didn't care for the food on the Glory. I did enjoy the fact that they now serve sushi on the buffet and it was great. I also enjoyed the fried oysters and calamari where they serve the fish n chips. The service and food in the Supper club was good, but again, the food wasn't as good in this supper club as I remembered on the Valor last year. Read more