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Carnival Glory Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 38

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Glory

7 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 10, 2016

Ship: Carnival Glory

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8237

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Main Dining was great.  Breakfast...meh, worst bacon I have ever had.  Always crowded for breakfast and lunch.  Guy's Burger Joint was outstanding.  Taco bar was pretty good, too.  Clean ship.  Nice room.  Staff was not as friendly as other cruises we have taken.  Evening shows were pretty good. We went to the family friendly comedian shows- the comedians clearly didn't have much family friendly material and basically just talked to people in the audience and tried to make fun of them.  We didn't do any excursions through Carnival, since they charge 60% more than the operators themselves.  Check out Island Marketing Ltd for that.  A lot of the same tours, at significantly lower price.  We had some private tours, since we were the only ones who signed up.  Activities on board were surprisingly few.  They had trivia, and the usual events for shopping, gambling a drinking.  But as far as other things, it was pretty slim, which meant the Lido deck was almost always completely packed with people.  Also, if you have the 8:15 dinner, you will miss out on a lot of the evening events, since they schedule a lot that overlap that time slot. (Some are duplicated at a later time, some are done earlier, but many are not.)  This is likely our last Carnival.  We have had much better experiences all around on Royal Caribbean (2 cruises) and Princess (1 cruise) than we have on our 2 Carnival Cruises...though they did cost a bit less.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Main Dining- FANTASTIC. Guy's Burger Joint- Awesome. Everything else...okay.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Red Sail Dining room is poorly designed.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Large!

Ship tip

Get your excursions at the dock in Grand Cayman. Use Island Marketing Ltd for the others.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5
Use Lyft instead of a cab.

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
Same tours sold at the port as on the ship for half the price.

Mahogany Bay, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

3 out of 5
Lots to do at the port. Decent snorkeling, once you swim out 50 yard past a lot of trash.

Belize City, Belize

3 out of 5
Cave Tubing was a long drive for an okay event. If you have been white water rafting, or to any large caverns, this is a bit of a snooze. Plus figure it taking an hour drive each way.

Cozumel, Mexico Did not visit port

Took intro to scuba from Island Marketing Ltd. Cost about $57. Was great.
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10 Comments

dondada3760    8 years ago

Believe it or not if you ask them to cook your bacon they will do it I like crispy bacon and in my opinion the bacon was not cook I was not the only one to complain but they did correct the problem but I loved the glory. I have been on other cruise line RC NCl MSC and all the bacon is the same

jkbow357    8 years ago

Goin on Glory in Nov...lookin forward to having a great time!!!

tmunzert    8 years ago

I loved the Glory. 😉

splancher08    8 years ago

Where did you book your excursions?

bbhellriegel    8 years ago

I can't believe you thought the evening shows were "pretty good"! They were fantastic Broadway like productions! I just got off the Glory a few days ago, and it was the best cruise I have ever been on! I would give it 5 stars.

swrightco    8 years ago

That might be a good thing. If there was unlimited great bacon I might never make it to any of the excursions.

aprilt27    8 years ago

Lol hard to mess up bacon but I'm sure the Glory found a way!

galaxy5    8 years ago

That should read greasy mess.

galaxy5    8 years ago

Been busy on ,14 carnival cruises,the bacon on all of them was a great mess.

terry115    8 years ago

Sounds like you had a Great Cruise

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