Carnival Glory Review.... Western Itinerary.... May 22 - 29, 2004

Our first day, we drove down to Cocoa Beach, FL from Augusta, GA. It took us a good 7 hours. A lot of road construction along the way, but it didn't seem to slow us down. Passed several bad accidents, so if you are driving please be careful. We stayed at Comfort Inn (5 minutes from pier) we paid $109.00 for a family of 4 when making the reservations we ask for the "cruise package" Which includes you to leave your vehicle parked at the hotel and they will transport you to the pier and pick you up after the cruise. If you park at Port Canaveral the charge is $10 per day. If I had to do it over again I would not have stayed there. I have stayed in older, run down but clean hotels before but this one was not only old but also nasty! Our tub looked liked it had never been cleaned. Comfort Inn did offer karaoke bar, 2 drink coupons "buy one get one free", air hockey table, pool table, volleyball, ping pong table, swimming pool and hot tub. It is located directly next to Ron Jon's surf shop. Awesome shopping place. With your Comfort Inn key you receive 15% off your entire purchase. We ate lunch at the Tiki Bar near the pier. It was very nice. The food and service was excellent! I had bacon wrapped scallops...yummy! If you arrive a couple days early prior to sailing you can deep-sea fish. I noticed a sign ½ day fishing $500. And all day was $950. On A1A the main strip in Cocoa Beach are several liquor stores in case you need a little more. If driving fill up your gas tank before you reach FL. Gas prices are about .25 more expensive in FL.

Saturday Morning We opted to call a yellow taxicab so we could arrive early. Phone # is 636-1234. The charge is $2.10 per mile and 30-cent waiting in traffic time. Our total bill for 4 people was $22.00. Plus a $5 tip. We asked them to pick us up from the motel at 10:45. We dropped off our luggage and headed up the escalator to check in. We had already completed our fun pass and got in line. There appeared to be a lot of people ahead of us, but the lines moved very quickly. We were checked in and on the ship by 11:45. We were asked not to go to our cabins until after 1:00. Our luggage was delivered to our room by 3:00. We were in room 6284 with balcony. Our cabin steward was Julia. She did an excellent job keeping our room clean but we didn't receive many towel animals. Upon arrival we asked her to unlock and clean out the refrigerator and she did without a problem. We used it for our pineapple juice, cokes and water that we brought from home. We packed a big bottle of Crown Royal, Parrot Bay and 8 diet cokes. Of course we ran out of cokes fast we opted to get $1.50 can cokes from our cabin steward throughout the week. We were going to purchase cokes at our first port day except they wanted $5.00 for a bottle of one-liter coke. There diet coke is called...coke light. If you drink your alcohol with orange juice I would suggest taking along a couple of water bottles and filling them up at the fountain during breakfast, you can also request oj from room service througout the day. Read more