After having previously sworn to never cruise from ugly/disorganized Port Liberty again after our experience in Dec. 2011, I decided that the itinerary and larger ship would be worth another try and planned an earlier arrival than in 2011. We got to the port around 11AM to find that most of the parking places to unload our luggage were taken by cars of people still departing from the cruise so that we had to go to the very end of the "warehouse"/port building which did work out OK. We parked the car and did go through the check in process relatively quickly and were on the ship by noon after waiting in the queue for the shuttle buses for about 15 minutes.
Despite our early arrival the Windjammer was pretty jammed up with few open tables visible; However, go completely aft and there will be a better chance to get a table. Food was good and service exceptional. Cabins were ready about 1:30 as promised.
The ship is dated but for the most part clean and very nice; particularly the Promenade which is very impressive and reminiscent of the Oasis although smaller. Richard Spacey is a great CD and he seemed to be more visible and talkative than when we first met him on the Oasis. We did not attend many shows so no comment here.
Cabin 9642 is OK; quiet and with LOTS of storage space in drawers and shelves and hangers in the closet. During our trip we had a major plumbing leak that started with the toilet filling to the brim. Flushing would suck the water out but the refilling would not stop........after that was "fixed" we had returned to find the rug wet inside and outside our cabin with the water going under the floor somehow from somewhere......after that was "fixed" we were once again confident to flush the toilet............then the catastrophe started again with the water pouring from the toilet with no way to stop it............Good parts: the water was at least clean after having flushed first and the response of the maintenance staff was very fast and commendable.
The problem seems to be fixed so that the cabin should not have this problem again and may be a good choice from others that have yet to befall this fate.