My First ever Caribbean Cruise aboard the Glory March 2016 Review w/pics

[cruisinsly]

Great start. Cant wait for the rest!

[Jenny in TX]

I am really looking forward to the rest of your review! We did this exact itinerary on the Glory in April 2015 and to date it was my favorite cruise! I loved the ship and all of the ports were just amazing.

 

I love that you took a cruise with your Grandma and surprised her with the whole family coming along. These are memories that y'all will have forever!!

[Destaw71835]

I love that you surprised your Grandmother aka Grandmom for this cruise! I am looking forward to the rest of your review. You're doing a great job!

[Alexv500]

We were on this cruise and aldo had a great time, though on the Sunday and Monday I was sick with a fever and battled the cold for the rest of the cruise...

 

 

It was a great cruise! I also got a little cold too, had a mild sore throat on embarkation day but luckily it went away the next day but I also got a fever the evening after half moon cay accompanied by some really bad sunburns. I think that evening was probably the worst that I felt and the next day I felt much better, not fun being sick especially on a cruise! :( I was so glad I brought along medicine with me!

[Alexv500]

I am really enjoying your review so far and looking forward to the rest. Your pictures are beautiful! I'm glad there is someone else besides me who takes pictures from the airplane. :D My excuse is that it's not just about the destination, the journey is part of the trip. :) We were on Glory in 2010, same itinerary out of Miami, and I always enjoy "reliving" past cruises through reviews. We loved Glory and all the ports. I'm looking forward to the rest and thank you for taking the time to do a review.

 

 

Thank you so much!! I love taking plane pics! And I definitely agree with you, the journey to the cruise itself is part of the trip! Thank you for following a long and taking the time to read the review! :)

[Alexv500]

I'm really enjoying your adventure. My family and I (including my mother and sister) will be going on that same cruise in June. This will be my first cruise. I'm feeling nervous and excited at the same time.

 

 

You are going to LOVE IT! Cruising is amazing and you will be hooked after your first cruise! You picked a great itinerary- I loved each and every port, so much fun!!

[Alexv500]

I am really looking forward to the rest of your review! We did this exact itinerary on the Glory in April 2015 and to date it was my favorite cruise! I loved the ship and all of the ports were just amazing.

 

 

 

I love that you took a cruise with your Grandma and surprised her with the whole family coming along. These are memories that y'all will have forever!!

 

 

I totally agree! This has been my favorite cruise so far, all the ports were just AMAZING! And the ship was perfect, couldn't have asked for a better cruise!

 

They are great memories, this will definitely be a memorable cruise! :)

[Alexv500]

I love that you surprised your Grandmother aka Grandmom for this cruise! I am looking forward to the rest of your review. You're doing a great job!

 

 

Thank you so much! It was so fun surprising her, definitely worth keeping that secret in for so many months haha! :D

[Alexv500]

Such a nice start!

Looking forward to following along.

Thanks for taking the time to do this.

Chass

 

 

No problem! Thank you for taking the time to keep up and read along :)

[saintscruisefool]

Loving your review keep it coming!!!

 

 

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[gtalum]

It was a great cruise! I also got a little cold too, had a mild sore throat on embarkation day but luckily it went away the next day but I also got a fever the evening after half moon cay accompanied by some really bad sunburns. I think that evening was probably the worst that I felt and the next day I felt much better, not fun being sick especially on a cruise! :( I was so glad I brought along medicine with me!

 

We bought DayQuil on the ship, which wasn't cheap. I was fine until Snday night after HMC, then I started feeling cold and sick... I spent the sea day Monday in bed. I was better after that, though, but I never did get my full cruise form back. :D

 

You're younger, so you recovered faster! ;)

 

I did have fun though.

[cschwall]

Loving the review! We are doing same itinerary, different ship, next week!

[MJF0507]

Looking forward to the rest.

[Alexv500]

Finally Getting on the Ship!

 

Let's see here where did I leave off? Ah yes boarding the ship!

 

So once our zone was finally called, we proceeded on up to the gangway, and it was approximately noon when we started to board. Boarding is the best part of embarkation day, just finally being able to get on the ship, after soo many months of waiting, here is it- the moment you've been waiting for for so many months! I was literally on cloud 9 (heh see the reference I did there to the cloud 9 spa on some of Carnival's newer ships haha!) Once I am on the gangway, I am just so happy, like this is finally happening!! I have seen countless videos of people's vacations onboard many of the other carnival ships and I always see them boarding their ship here in Miami, but never did I imagine that I would too be going up that same gangway, boarding a ship on the vacation of a lifetime for a week in the Caribbean Islands! A dream come true!! Finally!

 

So once up the gangway, I finally set foot on the ship for the first time-nothing better than your first step onboard any ship! Let the fun begin I am on vacation!!

Almost thereeeee hurry up people I wanna get on already!

 

Once onboard the ship my first order of business- GUYS BURGERS ASAP! No one knows how long I had been waiting to try a burger from Guy's, I had heard nothing but how amazing these burgers were and I had to try it, forget the buffet, I gotta get to guys! So immediately I headed up to the lido and so did the rest of the group, since our cabins weren't going to be ready until 1:30 we had time to kill and eat, what sucked was having to carry around all our stuff we had with us, and with my big family, we had ALOT of carry ons LOL. I quickly got in line to get me a Guy's burger and the one I got was the ringer and it was AMAZING!!! Here in California, burgers are a big deal here and we have so many burger joints here that are unique to California such as In N Out and Habit Burger (which I love with all my heart) so we Californians are pretty picky with our burgers and Guy's was SOOOO GOOD, they got my stamp of approval, way better than In N Out, that's how good they were!! Oh and the fries, OH THE FRIES from Guy's don't get me started...I miss them so much!!

 

 

 

We finally arrived at our cabin, and it was just two cabins away from the elevators and I actually loved the easy access we had to the elevators, very convenient! I just LOVE walking into my cabin for the first time and looking for it, just one of the many things I love about embarkation day! We walked into our cabin and everything was very nice, neat, and clean! They even had the beds separated like I had requested! No complaints about the cabin!

 

http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y348/Al300/Carnival%20Glory%20Cruise/A4078D5E-9C73-428A-9C18-2981247C668F_zpslck9woeg.jpg' alt='A4078D5E-9C73-428A-9C18-2981247C668F_zpslck9woeg.jpg'>

My home for the next 7 days! Excuse our bags, we immediately got in there and just dropped everything LOL!

 

Grandmom and I dropped off our bags in the cabin, and then headed back on up to explore the ship and admire the Miami views! Just waiting for our luggage to get here, but I was in no rush, I understand the crew has thousands of pieces of luggage to deliver so no biggie for me! Now time to go and explore this beautiful ship!

 

Up Next: Embarkation Day Fun & Exploring the Ship!

 

I also want to thank the time to thank every single one of you for taking the time to read my review! It means so much to me and I just love doing these reviews and sharing my amazing experience aboard the Glory! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask me! Thank you all so much!

[novaLady]

Great review so far! We were on this cruise also and had a great time.

 

The ports were great, service was great and the ship was a lot of fun.

 

BTW..,my daughter got sick towards the end and we had to visit the Medical Center. The dr was great though. Apparently, a viral illness was going around (high fever and cough).

[7leagueboots]

Great pics...thanks.

[Alexv500]

Great review so far! We were on this cruise also and had a great time.

 

 

 

The ports were great, service was great and the ship was a lot of fun.

 

 

 

BTW..,my daughter got sick towards the end and we had to visit the Medical Center. The dr was great though. Apparently, a viral illness was going around (high fever and cough).

 

 

Thanks! Nice to see that people on the same cruise are reading this too! It was such an amazing cruise!

 

I noticed a lot of people were sick on this cruise and I could tell something was going around, but thankfully no one in my family got sick except me, however I think I picked up my sore throat/ mini cold on the plane! There was one point (the evening after HMC) where I felt very sick! I had a fever, super bad sunburns, and the chills that made me feel super cold no matter where I was, I really thought I was going to have to make a trip to the medical center, and that was the LAST thing I wanted! Luckily, I pretty much bring an entire pharmacy in my suitcase wherever I travel, LOL! So I had medicine with me to help me out, even vitamin C, so luckily by the first sea day after HMC, I was feeling so much better, just pains from sun burns! It was an interesting start to the cruise and thankful by St. Thomas I was feeling back to normal again. Also I think what made me recover a lot faster from this little cold I got was the salty air from the ocean and just the warm humid air, it helped me a lot!

Edited April 6, 2016 by Alexv500

[CraftyJGinSC]

awww, man, surprising your grandmom made me cry!!

Loving your review so far and love those pics from the air!

One of our stops will be Grand Turk in July, so looking forward to that part of your review... along with the rest!

[JennN]

I am on this cruise next weekend so thanks for taking the time! I've been to all the ports before but my nephews are coming as well as my mother-in-law, my wife, my wife's sister and her hubby so a full house! My oldest nephew is your age and will be graduating high school in June. So I'd love to hear more about what you did every day - were you on your own or with family the whole time? Did you make friends, etc...

 

Thanks again!

Edited April 6, 2016 by JennN

[Alexv500]

I am on this cruise next weekend so thanks for taking the time! I've been to all the ports before but my nephews are coming as well as my mother-in-law, my wife, my wife's sister and her hubby so a full house! My oldest nephew is your age and will be graduating high school in June. So I'd love to hear more about what you did every day - were you on your own or with family the whole time? Did you make friends, etc...

 

Thanks again!

 

 

Hi Jenn! You're going to have a great time, such a great cruise I would definitely do it again! I'll write more in detail about what I did each day later in the review, but basically what I did each day was just walk around, have fun and participate in as much activities as I could. I did a lot of filming on my GoPro, so I was busy filming shots around the ship. I did spend a lot of time on my own, mainly because I just loved exploring and going out on deck to film videos on the GoPro! And of course, EATING! Haha! Also spent a lot of time in the hot tubs, waterslide, and being lazy by laying out on deck. However I did do a lot of activities with my family, mainly with my grandma but I also balanced time with my family as well. It's a huge ship so everyone is all over the place doing their own thing and that's how everyone in my family spent their time just doing whatever they wanted when they wanted and it worked great that way! Of course we all had dinner together and spent time there together enjoying all the delicious food offered in the dining room. We had lots of fun on this cruise! :)

[Crusin Karen]

Have never been on Glory, but am enjoying your review. Thanks for sharing.

[lmsdf]

Loving your review so far. We are doing Western Carribean in August on the Glory. There are so many negative reviews out there that I was beginning to get nervous about our choice in ships so I'm so happy to see such a rave review so far.

BTW - It's been 7 months and we still miss Guys Burgers :(

[inlinesick]

wow nice review! I sure would have hard time to keep that kind of secret for many months. i would have been scared if it was my grandma, that she have a heart attack with that kind of surprise! I know the feeling when you're saying in your head, get off my ship !! then you have to chase the one that says, it gonna be me in one week!! Nah its never gonna end!! Keep it coming.

[yukongold]

Nice review. thanks for taking the time.

[mllekaren]

Thanks! Nice to see that people on the same cruise are reading this too! It was such an amazing cruise!

 

I noticed a lot of people were sick on this cruise and I could tell something was going around, but thankfully no one in my family got sick except me, however I think I picked up my sore throat/ mini cold on the plane! There was one point (the evening after HMC) where I felt very sick! I had a fever, super bad sunburns, and the chills that made me feel super cold no matter where I was, I really thought I was going to have to make a trip to the medical center, and that was the LAST thing I wanted! Luckily, I pretty much bring an entire pharmacy in my suitcase wherever I travel, LOL! So I had medicine with me to help me out, even vitamin C, so luckily by the first sea day after HMC, I was feeling so much better, just pains from sun burns! It was an interesting start to the cruise and thankful by St. Thomas I was feeling back to normal again. Also I think what made me recover a lot faster from this little cold I got was the salty air from the ocean and just the warm humid air, it helped me a lot!

 

Do you think you got seasick? Or was it just a cold or something? I'm also on riviera deck on my next cruise and wanted to know if you felt motion a lot. Was it noisy?