Carnival Liberty Review

First time on Liberty and disapointed

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6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Jun 2012
Cabin: Interior

This trip left Miami on June 23, 2012 on the 7 day "exotic eastern caribbean" itinerary. With stops in Half Moon Cay, St. Thomas, San Juan, and Grand Turk it was all new to me. This was also my ninth cruise ever. With two previous on Carnival (smaller ships), four on Royal Caribbean (larger and smallest ships), and Disney Wonder. I love to cruise but I haven't gone during peak season since 2000. I took this cruise for four reasons. First because a my friends wanted to go at this time and I had another person who was single with cash to fill the other berth. I also wanted to see what the Fun Ship 2.0 concept was all about (Liberty is the first to roll it out). I haven't been on a large ship in a long time. And lastly I haven't been to any of the ports of call. Otherwise I would have gone on Royal Caribbean.

Starting at arrival at the pier you encounter the first line which took about thirty minutes to check-in our documents and have our passports scanned. We were given a number in green highlight and a boarding card with the number on it. Continued through security to get to the second line which only lasted twenty minutes. At the front of the line we were told to go to a specific counter were the agent had our Sign and Sail card in hand and a deck plan. I thought the process was efficient, but that was the end of it. Now we had to wait for almost an hour to wait for our number to be called to board through the one and only gangway. Guest are funneled through two escalators at opposite ends of the check-in hall to then take the first of many pictures any cruise. Then the two lines meet and cross the gangway to another line on the promenade deck to then take the security picture inside the ship. You are welcomed by a dark, packed, unorganized area with no signs. I had studied the deck plan before arriving so I knew where we had to go.

My cabin (7244) on deck seven port side was roomy with plenty of storage for clothing and luggage. The thermostat works and the A/C is quiet. Lighting is controlled by a switch by the door and by the beds. The nightstands have a lamp bolted to the top center of them. There is storage in the nightstand.

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Interior

Cabin 4E

My cabin (7244) on deck seven port side was roomy with plenty of storage for clothing and luggage. The thermostat works and the A/C is quiet. Lighting is controlled by a switch by the door and by the beds(set up as two separate beds). The nightstands have a lamp bolted to the top center of them. There is storage in the nightstand.

The beds are a bit narrow but very comfortable. I had to pull my bed a little away from the wall so as not to elbow the cabin next door. The room is located in an area where there is a service corridor. On a couple of nights I could hear crew talking and moving things.

There is a small electric refrigerator that in this case didn't cool enough. My friend in 7247 had an ice cold refrigerator. Well stocked with water, beer, sodas, liquor, even Cognac?

The room does lack power outlets. There is only one three prong jack by the "desk" dressing mirror, and that's it. The other is in the bathroom by the ceiling. I used a two prong open jack on a three way splitter behind the TV.

The 25 or so inch LCD TV was on the information channel when I walked in. The services offered are pretty much standard as found on other ships. You can check your account, book an excursion, buy pay-per-view, and check the evenings dinning menu. Channels are limited. CNN, CNN Espanol, ESPN, Boomerang, TNT are some of the few channels. There is also the view from the bridge cam, Lido deck cam, GPS map, and pay-per-view channels.

An electronic safe is located in a cabinet below the TV. It has a placard on it that says "Do not use Sign and Sail" which makes sense. If someone finds out what cabin you are in, they could get into the safe. I used my expired AAA card and hid it in the room, that way my friend could get to his stuff using one card.

The bathroom is roomy with the shower were you can preset your temperature and has a wrap around curtain. Plenty of towels but they were a bit rough. The full size mirror has six glass shelves for storing things. A retractable mirror with regular and magnifying sides is conveniently mounted to the wall. The light switch is located outside the room and you must step up into the bathroom.

The room is exactly as pictured on the Carnival site.

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