Carnival Glory Review
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Our party of 6 recently returned from a 7-day cruise aboard the Carnival Glory on its eastern Caribbean route. We sailed from Port Canaveral on 6/21/08, and our ports-of-call were Nassau, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten. Although there were a few minor problems along the way, we all had a very good vacation, and would highly recommend this ship and itinerary.
PRE-CRUISE: We drove from South Carolina and arrived in the Port Canaveral area the night before our cruise. We stayed at the Country Inn & Suites in Cape Canaveral and utilized their "Park & Cruise" option, whereby you leave your vehicle in the hotel's parking lot during your cruise. The hotel's shuttle service takes you (and your luggage) to your ship to embark, and then picks you up and returns you to the hotel when you disembark. The cost to use the shuttle is $6 per person, and I highly recommend it.
I also had a favorable impression of the hotel. The rooms were clean, the service was friendly, and the location was excellent. The complimentary "deluxe continental breakfast" was both plentiful and tasty. The only minor complaint I had about the hotel was the presence of a stale, musty smell in the 4th floor hallway, but other than that, it was all good!
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Carnival Glory, 8352 - port-side, mid-ships, balcony cabin on the Verandah deck. Location close to the mid-ships elevators and stairwell, and laundry room. Only 1 deck below Lido deck which was good and bad. Good because it's convenient to all the food and activities on the Lido, but bad because it's directly below the outdoor dining area of the Red Sail restaurant, and we would hear chairs scraping the floor and being slid around above us all during the day. The noise wasn't nearly as bad at night, though, after the Red Sail finished serving dinner.