Carnival Glory Review

This is our last cruise with Carnival

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Glory
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amandanrd1
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2011
Cabin: Interior

This was our third family cruise with a group of 10 people ranging in ages from 26 to 69, our second family cruise with Carnival, and my husband & I.. our third cruise with Carnival. He is 26, I am 27 and this review is a consensus of our entire group. Our previous cruises with Carnival have been a let down, but my family wanted to give Carnival one last chance. At the end of the cruise we said never again.

We stayed in Miami at the Red Roof Inn @ Miami Airport through ParkSleepFly so that we could leave our vehicles there and avoid parking fees at the port. This was fine for one night, but I definitely wouldn't want to stay there any longer. We got a free shuttle to the airport with this, but almost missed it because at the last minute they changed the shuttle time. When I checked in I was told the shuttle would leave at 1pm the next day. I was running a 5k on Miami beach the next morning at 6:30am, but would have plenty of time to get back for the shuttle. After running, we received a call from my great aunt, who luckily was in her room to get the phone call from the front desk... they had changed the shuttle time to 10am because of our group size! To say the least, we were rushed but made it.

The embarkation went very smoothly and quickly and I was impressed by the process. It seems that it went quicker than our previous experiences, so this was great. Once aboard the ship my family went straight for lunch and I headed to the spa. I had read that if you went and asked if they needed volunteers for the spa tours that you might get a free treatment and I did! They needed someone for their ionthermy procedure, normally 159.00 but supposed to make you lose 1-8 inches in one treatment by removing toxins from your body. I would never pay for this and I couldn't even tell a difference afterward, but it was free so why not?! After this, I went to find our stateroom. We had an inside cabin on deck 8. I hated our room. The pink metal molding around the ceiling rattled rather loudly. You could see where previous people had stuffed cardboard and toilet paper to try to stop the rattling, so we decided to try this. It worked for about 30 minutes, then the rattling would start again. This was especially annoying at night when I was trying to sleep. Also at night, my husband I would both wake up to what sounded like a wind tunnel outside in the hallway. We never did figure out where this came from, but it was noticeably loud. Another problem was the temperature of the room. We had our thermostat set as low as it would possibly go, and still I would wake up literally sweating at night. This was not just our room though, because the others in our group had the same problem. Okay, back to the first day... I then found some of our group and we went to the front of deck 7 to find one of our favorite spots... the decks out here are EMPTY! It is a great getaway spot, especially with a ship FULL of spring-breakers. Anyway, we watched the ship sail out of Miami from here and saw some dolphins as we were leaving. We had early seating for dinner, but had a problem with 2 people from our group not being seated at our table. I was the last to book our cruise and confirmed our dinner arrangement prior to sailing and everything at that point was correct, but once we had our Sign & Sail cards, it was wrong. So the first night we didn't get to all sit together, but it was corrected by the second night.

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Interior

Cabin 4F

Room rattles a lot! The pink metal molding they have along the ceiling has cardboard and toilet paper stuffed up in it to attempt silence, but it isn't working! Bring earplugs... my husband stuffed toilet paper in his ears at night to try to drown out the noise!

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