Carnival Cruises, Glory, Eastern Caribbean

Have been on two Carnival Cruises with husband, three myself. Food is decent. rooms clean. We have yet to reach our intended destination. First time, ship had problems and we were a day late coming back, next two times ship had problems and we did not make it to ports of call. On the third trip they actually knew this before we left port and made not attempt to notify us. This was a birthday surprise for my granddaughter and she was soooooo disappointed. They seemed not to care and were exceptionally rude!!! Contacted Carnival Cruises several times. Their explanations were they could not be held responsible for change in itinerary. They offered a Bon Voyage Gift on a subsequent trip which will never happen. I think it's a rip off and they need to replace their fleet. Read the fine print about class action lawsuits, etc.

Carnival Glory was our 4th cruise and we were not disappointed! We actually wanted a Royal Caribbean ship, but were not able with our time availability and destination choice. We were pleasantly surprised! 2 great rooms on Lido deck... near pools and casual dining but with no noise! We had a GREAT WEEK! Enjoyed the excursions and the shows and the meals. I thought the food was better than the Royal Caribbean's. Once you learn your way around everything is easy. We "self - disembarked" on the last day and were in our car and headed home at 9AM.

Carnival is really the "FUN SHIP" not a lot of rules... my son and I played video poker for 2 hours and no one said a word.

Carnival Glory:

There was 16 in our group,looking forward to seeing St, Maartin, St. Thomas. However we didn't make it there. What a big dissapointment. $100 credit was a slap in the face. How about the family with 3 kids, what was they suppose to do with $100 on board credit, go to the bar?

I heard great things about the Carnival Glory unfortunately my experience was different. A nice ship and a great itinerary turned ugly fast. First we requested our children have no spending access to the sign and sail card, this was not the case, when we reported this the lady at the desk was apologetic and assured us this was a mistake and offered to refund the money, but we had to go to the casino where it will be refunded upon going to the casino, a worker refused and argued that since the money was spent we would not get a refund. We did finally get a refund. The dreaded itinerary change after returning from our first port of call, Nassau, we sat docked hours past our scheduled sailing time to St.Thomas - an announcement over the ships intercom told us we are having problems and our itinerary has changed we will no longer be sailing to St Thomas and St Maarten and in return we can go to Freeport and Key West and we will get $100 per person on our sign and sail card - Let me tell you the disappointment felt all over the ship - suddenly a potential great cruise ending up the worse vacation of my life