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Hi,
I feel strange posting about our Carnival cruise but after 14 cruises with Disney I feel I can offer a interesting report about the differences we saw.
Please keep in mind this is only for the Carnival Glory, NOT all Carnival ships.
I will start with a cruise report of our trip with pictures, followed by a comparrison report between the 2 lines on different areas of the trip.
If you have cruised Disney before you will notice many differences just by reading the report.
I will have to post it in sections because it is so long.
So please be patient and I will get it all posted and I welcome comments and questions after you've read it all.
6/30/07 Carnival Cruise report.
Hi everyone,
I will give you my report of the actual cruise and then follow it up by a comparrison report between Disney and Carnival.
It will be fairly long and I will post it over several sections, so please be patient and I will get it all posted ASAP.
First off here are the names of all who went.
myself: Kathy
my husband :Greg
daughter : Marie lady with the turquoise hair
her husband : Jerry
grandaughter: Ana
grandson : Andy
Ok, here goes,
We arrived at 11:00 a.m. saturday morning at the port. People were still getting off the ship, so we couldnt drop off our luggage. We were told to pay for our parking and then park in the parking garage and wait for a man to come and tell us it was time to drop off luggage and board the ship.
The garage was almost full and very small spaces for a full size truck. We finally found a place to park and waited for over an hour and nobody came. So we decided to take our luggage ourselves over to the terminal. It took a bit of doing but we made it and then we noticed people were dropping off their luggage and boarding the ship. NOBODY ever came to tell us like they were suppose to do.
We did get a porter after we got to the terminal to take our luggage. We had to show our photo ID and then proceeded to go through the scanner and up the elevator where we heard a lady practically yelling at people to go to a table and fill out a Bahamas form before checking in. There were 2 pens for 20 people so it took awhile to get it done for all 6 of us.
Once we were done we wanted to take a family photo in the terminal as usual but they don't allow any photos in the terminal. So we proceeded to go to check in. To our surprize your check in area was determined by your room number. Since we were on different decks we had different places to check in which caused confusion because we were all on the same credit card accept one family member.
We finally got to one window for all of us and the lady had to redo our cards 4 times before she got it correct. It seemed to take forever but eventually we were headed down the walkway to board the ship. Of course first we had the boarding photo taken.
our boarding photo
Then across the gangplank onto an outside deck with many confused people standing around wondering which way to go?? We did see an open door a little ways away and headed for that. As you stepped into the lobby area they scanned your boarding pass and took your photo and then you walked into the lobby which was very crowded since you entered by the bar on one side and chairs on the other side that had lots of people in them.
Many of us newbies had no idea where to head to find lunch??
Nobody greeted us, nobody showed us where to go, we had to hunt down a CM to ask where to go. Finally we were up in the elevator to deck 5 and had to walk the length of the ship to take another elevator up to deck 9 for the buffet.
The lobby area and the Promenade (deck 5) were beautiful!! The ceiling changes colors constantly. There were glass elevators there that went up 10 floors for a fantastic view!
The hall down deck 5 was full of shops and chairs for sitting and many of the clubs were there along with the Casino. The ship does get an A+ for beauty.
upper lobby area
casino
one of the bars on the Promenade
The buffet was huge and had very good food. Upstairs was extra seating with a place that served fish and chips and other assorted seafood dishes daily. Around the buffet was smaller windows that served hamburgers, deli sandwiches, chinese food, hot dogs, pizza, 4 places that served ice cream, another place that had a different themed food each day.
Pizza and ice cream was 24 hours a day.
one buffet line
The drink stations had iced tea, lemonade,coffee, Lipton tea, ice, water and apple and orange juice. One station was open 24 hours. If you want pop you can buy it all over the ship.
After lunch we had a few minutes to explore the upper decks. They were very crowded. No shade to sit in, all the seats were tired up around the pool areas. The pools were very small and filled with salt water and the pools and hot tubs had no covers so you were in the direct sun too. The big blue slide wasn't open yet but it looked like a lot of fun and didnt go into a pool, just ended in a small square area you stepped out of.
In order to get across the deck you had to walk up several small sets of stairs all over the place, As I said it was all tiered around the main pool area.
if you look across you can see tiered seats, leaves no deck room
slide
Behind the buffet was a bar, the pizza place, another pool with 2 hot tubs. No adult pools or hot tubs here. Kids were in every pool and hot tub on the ship no matter what the signs said.
pool behind bar with roll over cover for bad weather
It was now time to check out our room on deck 6.
The hallways were very pretty and our room was very nice. It had a great layout with tons of storage areas including under the sofa. Our balcony was quite small but it worked ok for us. The TV had terrible selections. They had PPV movies but they were either old or nothing we liked. Mostly it was 2 news stations, 3 guide stations, 5 stations that shows events around the ship or shopping talks for the ports. No movie stations. They did have the cartoon network for the kids. TNT also and Discovery. The set was larger than others crusies we have been on. 3 large closets and a big bathroom too.
The cooler was locked because they stock it with beverages and alcohol that i f you drink it you will be charged for it. we asked our room host to unlock it and we took out a lot of it so we could put our water and pop in it.
Our host was excellant even though he didnt speak great english.
to be continued:
I feel strange posting about our Carnival cruise but after 14 cruises with Disney I feel I can offer a interesting report about the differences we saw.
Please keep in mind this is only for the Carnival Glory, NOT all Carnival ships.
I will start with a cruise report of our trip with pictures, followed by a comparrison report between the 2 lines on different areas of the trip.
If you have cruised Disney before you will notice many differences just by reading the report.
I will have to post it in sections because it is so long.
So please be patient and I will get it all posted and I welcome comments and questions after you've read it all.
6/30/07 Carnival Cruise report.
Hi everyone,
I will give you my report of the actual cruise and then follow it up by a comparrison report between Disney and Carnival.
It will be fairly long and I will post it over several sections, so please be patient and I will get it all posted ASAP.
First off here are the names of all who went.
myself: Kathy
my husband :Greg
daughter : Marie lady with the turquoise hair

her husband : Jerry
grandaughter: Ana
grandson : Andy
Ok, here goes,
We arrived at 11:00 a.m. saturday morning at the port. People were still getting off the ship, so we couldnt drop off our luggage. We were told to pay for our parking and then park in the parking garage and wait for a man to come and tell us it was time to drop off luggage and board the ship.
The garage was almost full and very small spaces for a full size truck. We finally found a place to park and waited for over an hour and nobody came. So we decided to take our luggage ourselves over to the terminal. It took a bit of doing but we made it and then we noticed people were dropping off their luggage and boarding the ship. NOBODY ever came to tell us like they were suppose to do.
We did get a porter after we got to the terminal to take our luggage. We had to show our photo ID and then proceeded to go through the scanner and up the elevator where we heard a lady practically yelling at people to go to a table and fill out a Bahamas form before checking in. There were 2 pens for 20 people so it took awhile to get it done for all 6 of us.
Once we were done we wanted to take a family photo in the terminal as usual but they don't allow any photos in the terminal. So we proceeded to go to check in. To our surprize your check in area was determined by your room number. Since we were on different decks we had different places to check in which caused confusion because we were all on the same credit card accept one family member.
We finally got to one window for all of us and the lady had to redo our cards 4 times before she got it correct. It seemed to take forever but eventually we were headed down the walkway to board the ship. Of course first we had the boarding photo taken.
our boarding photo

Then across the gangplank onto an outside deck with many confused people standing around wondering which way to go?? We did see an open door a little ways away and headed for that. As you stepped into the lobby area they scanned your boarding pass and took your photo and then you walked into the lobby which was very crowded since you entered by the bar on one side and chairs on the other side that had lots of people in them.
Many of us newbies had no idea where to head to find lunch??

Nobody greeted us, nobody showed us where to go, we had to hunt down a CM to ask where to go. Finally we were up in the elevator to deck 5 and had to walk the length of the ship to take another elevator up to deck 9 for the buffet.
The lobby area and the Promenade (deck 5) were beautiful!! The ceiling changes colors constantly. There were glass elevators there that went up 10 floors for a fantastic view!
The hall down deck 5 was full of shops and chairs for sitting and many of the clubs were there along with the Casino. The ship does get an A+ for beauty.
upper lobby area

casino

one of the bars on the Promenade

The buffet was huge and had very good food. Upstairs was extra seating with a place that served fish and chips and other assorted seafood dishes daily. Around the buffet was smaller windows that served hamburgers, deli sandwiches, chinese food, hot dogs, pizza, 4 places that served ice cream, another place that had a different themed food each day.
Pizza and ice cream was 24 hours a day.
one buffet line

The drink stations had iced tea, lemonade,coffee, Lipton tea, ice, water and apple and orange juice. One station was open 24 hours. If you want pop you can buy it all over the ship.
After lunch we had a few minutes to explore the upper decks. They were very crowded. No shade to sit in, all the seats were tired up around the pool areas. The pools were very small and filled with salt water and the pools and hot tubs had no covers so you were in the direct sun too. The big blue slide wasn't open yet but it looked like a lot of fun and didnt go into a pool, just ended in a small square area you stepped out of.
In order to get across the deck you had to walk up several small sets of stairs all over the place, As I said it was all tiered around the main pool area.
if you look across you can see tiered seats, leaves no deck room

slide

Behind the buffet was a bar, the pizza place, another pool with 2 hot tubs. No adult pools or hot tubs here. Kids were in every pool and hot tub on the ship no matter what the signs said.
pool behind bar with roll over cover for bad weather

It was now time to check out our room on deck 6.
The hallways were very pretty and our room was very nice. It had a great layout with tons of storage areas including under the sofa. Our balcony was quite small but it worked ok for us. The TV had terrible selections. They had PPV movies but they were either old or nothing we liked. Mostly it was 2 news stations, 3 guide stations, 5 stations that shows events around the ship or shopping talks for the ports. No movie stations. They did have the cartoon network for the kids. TNT also and Discovery. The set was larger than others crusies we have been on. 3 large closets and a big bathroom too.
The cooler was locked because they stock it with beverages and alcohol that i f you drink it you will be charged for it. we asked our room host to unlock it and we took out a lot of it so we could put our water and pop in it.
Our host was excellant even though he didnt speak great english.



to be continued: