This being our tenth cruise we arrived in Miami as Platinum Members for our Carnival Glory 7 day cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. Empress deck balcony mid ship.

Arrived in port and dropped off my 5 other passengers at the luggage check in and headed for the parking garage second floor. Upon my return to the check in my wife and I walked down the VIP line and checked in. Not one person in this line. My other friends checked in the regular way and we were able to compare Platinum and regular service. We were escorted to the front of the line to have our bags screened and headed right upstairs. Then off to the private check in suite, no one in that line either. Back outside and showed our brand new shinny Platinum Cards to the lady at the bottom of the escalator and up we went and right onto the ship and right to our room. Meanwhile, our friends completed the lengthy lines and had to wait to be called by zone onto the ship. By the time they had gotten on the ship we had been to our room unpacked our one carry on bag and had almost finished lunch.

Carnival did not have us all assigned to one table but a trip to the dinning room took care of that and we were given a table at the rear of the Platinum Dinning Room with a view right off the rear of the ship. Dinning Room staff was outstanding and the food was great every night, the best of my 10 Carnival cruises. Food in the cafeteria was also very good, no complaints. Breakfast in the dinning room was also very good and fast. Read more