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This room is cheaper than a balcony cabin? Really?

Yup. It's considered an oceanview.

I paid $900pp, and a balcony room on Lido was $1100pp

And here are the towel animal's out early... reserving their chairs...:D

And finally...

Waddles, our Cruise Mascot... and a friend.

More comments, and observations to follow.

Pre-dawn pics using a star filter...

Sunrise...

Grand Turk was a lazy beach day. We took our time getting off.

Sweetie-pie rented a bicycle and pedaled for a few hours around the island, whie I shopped and logged into Margaritavilles free wifi.

Obligitory GT Ship pic from Jack's Shack.

And Topher... The luckiest dog in the world.

Almost time to head off into the sunset...

A couple of Ship pics...

The Lobby Bar.

The aft atrium

I was roaming around one of the evening near the Amber Palace and heard laughter and a magic show going on. I went into the Amber Palace on Deck 5 only to see my dear Mother, on stage.

Which, by the way, happens a lot...

Just another awesome cruise moment.

Great start. And love the room! If we were not so wedded to balconies, that would be my choice.

I love my balconies too... but...

This room is bigger and cheaper. My GF brought a boatload of clothes and shoes, and the extra room helps from looking cluttered.

Balconies are subject to loud neighbors, smokers and door slamming, not to mention, too hot, too cold, too wet, etc. etc.

Sooooooo close to the Lido and Spa. I love using the steam room and the showers. With the wall-o-towels.

And theres nothing like playing the itunes over the bloothooth speaker and basking in the sun, enjoying the view.

Thankyou so much for doing this review. We are doing a b2b on the Glory next year and have the same room. We also stayed in the same room on the Valor doing a b2b out of San Juan in 2013. Love the pictures.

I've also had this room on the Valor.

How many times did you bang your head on the TV in that room ?

The Glory 9201 has the chaise and the couch is a sleeper.

It was sunny and warm in San Juan.

We had nothing planned, so we walked around Old San Juan. Up the narrow streets, then over by El Morro.

We also did a little shopping, and walked through a few antique stores.

And stopped at a nice restaraunt for some fish tacos and mofongo.

It was a nice time.

And then we set sail for Grand Turk.

Going to be doing this exact ship/itinerary in 4 days. Did you happen to check out the EA sports bar? Expecting it to be kind of full with March Madness.

Sorry... Didn't check it out.

The Adventuress crew was awesome..

Wiggins

Jason... who was on his first day on the job.

And the Captain... Teresa.

Did I mention my room ?...

This is how it looked when we docked in St. Thomas.

We had booked the St. John Champagne Catamaran tour through Carnival sometime around Christmas. So we have been anticipating this for a while.

The rain turned to showers, and we had thick clouds all day. We had some sprinkles and rain during the excursion, but not no washouts.

We anchored off the island and most of the people on the catamaran with

us snokeled or swam ashore.

Some Sea Day room spam...

And double oysters, no fries, and a cerviche, from Fish and Chips.

We left Half Moon Cay, and steamed towards St. Thomas, with a Sea Day in between.

Here is a sunset pic I took.

It's been a while since I've seen a Hairy Chest Contest. But this one was awesome... That's the one great thing about this Cruise. An awesome group of fellow passengers.

We had a great mix of people and some College Spring Breakers, who really livened up some of the ship activities. Never saw them rowdy or out of hand. And of course the eye-candy was pretty good too.

I've run several cabin crawls.

Not the drinking game/card game ones, but the one to see different catagory cabins.

Instead of meeting at a bar, I always started on an upper floor elevator bank.

I've always started at the top and moved my way down.

End the tour at the Lobby Bar for those who can't be without a drink in their hand.

Great start! Can't wait to see more!

Thanks !

No selfies in this review.

Just Waddles.

Hi Thanks for starting this review. Can't wait for more

 

Can I ask u how was JetBlue? We're flying on them this Friday for the first time LA to FLL.....Regular seating which I heard was more spacious than other airlines. Any thoughts? Thx

JetBlue does have a bit more room, and leather seats.

We like them very much.

And the Cabana from the ship. ( I have an awesome zoom )

Upon embarkation, we went to Shore Excursions to claim our Half Moon Cay Cabana Rental. Cabana 10 was my first choice, and I ended up with #9 and couldnt be more pleased.

And then up to the room...

Yeah baby...

But, more on the room later...

Half Moon Cay was awesome. There was a slight glitch trying to get to the tender. Seems they wanted me to go all the way to the back of the ship to get a tender sticker, but that was'nt going to happen, and after a few words, we tendered ashore.

I can see my room !... It's the angled room, above the bridge, on the starboard side.

Here is Cabana #9

Our Neighbors...

And our view..

Hi Folks

This was my 13th Carnival Cruse, 3rd time on the Glory.

While not the best, it was still pretty damn good. I had booked this cruise a year ago at the future cruise desk on the Conquest, and had specifically booked room 9201, a Grand Scenic Oceanview.

I had stayed in the same room on the Valor. And have done specific threads on this particular steateroom.

We left Boston early on JetBlue non-stop to Fort Lauderdale and took the SAS Shuttle to The Holiday Inn, Downtown Miami.

We schmoozed with the concierge, whom we had met on previous cruises, and got early check-in to a room overlooking the Port.

This was the view on Embarkation Day...

The Glory was facing out, unlike previous weeks, which meant that we would'nt be doing the 180 in the basin.

It was also the first day staggered embarkation. Which seemed to be fairly smooth. However, I was the earliest time, and I'm Platinum. So embarkation was painless.

This is Waddles, Our Cruise Mascot.... waiting to go.

Left on the Glory, March 5.

 

I'm platinum, so boarding was fairly quick, as I had chosen the 10:00 - 10:30 slot.

 

Only thing that I did not like is the taxi drop-off zone is nowhere near the luggage porters, so we had to drag the train of luggage the length of the terminal and across the street. Ugh.

To further clarify...

We were using a shuttle van towing a trailer, so driving around the corner was not an option.

All things considered, it went pretty darn good.

Left on the Glory, March 5.

I'm platinum, so boarding was fairly quick, as I had chosen the 10:00 - 10:30 slot.

Only thing that I did not like is the taxi drop-off zone is nowhere near the luggage porters, so we had to drag the train of luggage the length of the terminal and across the street. Ugh.

Right there with you...

Nassau...we stay on the ship. Too much pressure from Natives there which doesnt make me feel very safe, plus the crime rate there is out of control!

Nassau.

Guy's and the other 2.0 venues are a big asset compared to what was offered previously.

I won't compare it to 5 Guys, because I've never had a 5 Guys gratis within 50 yards of any other vacation I have been on.

What ship ?