Onboard the Carnival Glory passengers will find a lively "let's do it all" atmosphere. The constant announcements remind passengers of most of the daily activities. Occasional congestion occurs in lines at the Lido for meals, especially on port days, for dinner on formal nights, and the Kaleidoscope Boulevard promenade was crowded with lines for formal photos.
Colors Bar in the atrium tends to fill up for pre-dinner cocktails. And yet there are offbeat, out-of-the-way spots, like the On The Green sports bar, the Ivory Club and the Ebony Cabaret Lounge that offer escape from crowds. Overall, Carnival Glory's biggest strength is its appeal to a wide variety of travelers, from families to couples to groups. Cabins Of the ship's 1, staterooms , 60 percent offer an ocean view with 60 percent of those featuring private balconies.
One of our favorite categories is the new Family Stateroom with floor to ceiling glass walls but no balcony - there are only 18 of these but the cabin's location on Deck 11 right below Children's World is very convenient.
All cabins have mini-bars filled with soda, drinks and snacks. Bathrobes and hairdryers are also available in all cabins. Self-service launderettes are available on most stateroom decks. Detergent and dryer sheets are also available for sale. Each laundry room is equipped with an iron and ironing board for complimentary use. Dining Dining options range from elegant two-level formal dining rooms and an upscale reservations-only "steakhouse-style" supper club to an expansive two-level poolside restaurant offering casual alternatives for breakfast, lunch and dinner, a hour pizzeria, New York-style deli, a specialty seafood station, a grille area, and more.
The Japanese-temple-inspired Platinum and Golden Dining rooms, both spanning two levels, are Glory's traditional restaurants. At dinner, they operate on an assigned-seating routine and offer staggered dining times; choices are pm, pm, 8pm and pm. For couples there are plenty of tables for two. There is also a vegetarian selection noted on the menu. Breakfast and lunch are open seating. The Red Sail Restaurant , the casual Lido eatery, offers a daily buffet for all meals each day with varying themes, as well as self-serve ice cream and frozen yogurt machines.
There's also a grill station with hamburgers, an Asian station, where offerings change daily, a hour pizza station including calzones and a deli, and fish-and-chips lovers should not miss the "open for lunch only" seafood station found on the second floor. The highlight of the cruise was the reservations-only Emerald Room Supper Club. Here's a tip; the first day of the cruise is the best time to get in so call as soon as you get onboard to book.
Carnival is one of the few cruise lines that still indulge in the midnight buffet - themes vary from, for instance, Mexican to crepes so check the schedule for details.
The buffet opens early to photo takers only so bring your cameras. The Deck 5 promenade is home to Creams , the extra-charge dessert and coffee bar, and a complimentary sushi counter that only opens in the evenings.
Room service is available 24 hours. Breakfast items vary from cold to hot; otherwise, all day offerings include the usual sandwiches and salads. Entertainment Carnival Glory is a ship that was built for entertainment -- including 22 lounges and bars that all play on the "colors" theme with dramatic interiors.
The White Heat Dance Club is the ship's "disco" featuring a disc jockey. It stays open into the wee hours. We found the best seats to be on Deck 4 where you can really see the special effects and the "flying objects" from one of the shows. An Internet cafe is open 24 hours and is located in an out-of-the-way room behind the Ivory Club.
Charges are. Carnival Glory is also wired with Wi-Fi wireless technology but passengers need to bring their own laptops and wireless cards. It should be noted that the Wi-Fi range is only in or near the Internet cafe at this time, though there are plans to expand the service throughout the ship.
Start-up fees and charges for renting wireless cards also apply. The latest in weight and exercise technology and views of the sea make it a great place to workout. Inside the locker rooms are complimentary steam rooms, and saunas coupled with spa treatment rooms. Among the relatively unusual spa services available include a couples' treatment room and a heated seaweed dry float.
A full-service beauty salon offering hair services, manicures and pedicures is available, but tends to book up for formal nights so reserve early. Fitness classes such as low- and high-impact aerobics and yoga, are offered in the aerobics studio. Starting April 19, , the company offers pre-purchasing internet plans first introduced on Carnival Fascination and Carnival Vista , fleetwide rollout by mid-summer Carnival's new Wi-Fi plans can be purchased at discounted rates by fully booked customers for either the entire itinerary or for a day hour period.
Daily packages are also available for shipboard purchasing. Day plans for this package are not available - must be purchased cruise-long package. Booked passengers can upgrade from one plan to another and are also allowed to use multiple devices per plan including the ship's onboard computers , but only on one device at a time. Printing services on the ship are provided at no charge. Note: The above-listed Internet package plans are currently offered not on all ships in the fleet, but only on Dream, Glory, and Magic.
The Breeze was excluded from this indeed small list. The line's official excuse is the slow satellite connection speeds at sea. These packages are transferable between the terminals in the Internet Cafe and guests' personal Internet devices.
Carnival Internet packages are called "Time Plans" and can be used anytime throughout the sailing until debarkation. The line's owner Carnival Corporation started rolling out the WiFi Sea Internet across technology not exclusively to Carnival Cruise Lines ships, but to all its brand lines fleets.
The new technology features a hybrid connectivity satellite and land-based data system. It combines bandwidth with several available for pre-purchasing Internet plans, different levels of pricing and also new Internet packages.
The process of implementing the new system started in Carnival Corp's largest brand - the Carnival cruise line - was the first that moved from the traditional pay-as-you-go Internet USD 0,75 per minute, or discounted Internet packages to pay-per-day packages. The new Carnival "cruise WiFi" system is first-of-its-kind in the passenger shipping industry It's an enhanced high-speed hybrid wireless network service to be rolled out to all ships in the fleets of all 9 Carnival brand lines.
The new system is expected to encourage the interest in ship cruising among the new tech-savvy generation. The new plans already show better penetration and higher usage rates. The new system allows a greater number of mobile devices, while the new Internet pricing is easier to understand. This unique system integrates land-based, strategically located antennas installed along the cruise itinerary routes , advanced satellites over 31 satellite systems and cruise port Wi-Fi connections, forming the Carnival's "smart hybrid" network.
The system gives cruise passengers the highest possible strength of signal and bandwidth capacity. The new network provides Internet connectivity speeds 10 times faster than previously offered by Carnival. All system upgrades, hardware changes, and new Internet equipment installations were done during the ships' dry-dock refurbishments.
In February , Carnival Corporation partnered with SES Networks to provide the industry's biggest bandwidth to a mobile shipboard platform first introduced on Regal Princess. The new technology broke all previous myths about connectivity limitations at sea.
The fastest cruise ship internet remained affordable priced at USD 10 per day. The technology combines the SES Networks satellites with the MedallionNet and provides bandwidth of minimum 1,5 gigabits per second to the vessel.
The tests were done on February 26, , while Regal Princess was docked at the private island Princess Cays Bahamas. During the tests was reached Internet speed of 2,6 gigabits per second.
The Internet Cafe is open hours, as a venue, it features private PC terminals Windows XP for web browsing, chat, and e-mail services. For guests convenience, there is an Internet Cafe Manager for assistance.
Here passengers can browse through the following Carnival's "free of charge websites": Carnival. All these websites can be accessed without purchasing an Internet plan. At the PC terminals, you can't edit MS Office documents, but most files can be viewed in their "read-only" mode. Guests must connect to the Carnival WiFi network and open an Internet browser.
Currently available on Carnival Breeze, Dream, Magic, Sunshine and Vista, the Fun Hub locations allow passengers free access to informative websites updated daily. A filtering option assists in planning guests' day. Internet access to sites that are outside the Fun Hub is also available wirelessly and through all Fun Hub locations. Charges will apply.
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