Liberty of the Seas Review

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Pretty good

Review for the Western Mediterranean Cruise on Liberty of the Seas
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cpmurphy
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Oct 2013
Traveled with children

Before this trip, I poured over reviews on this cruise line/ship and would like to pay it back with this review of our recent Liberty of the Seas cruise out of Barcelona on Oct 13-20. This was a 7 night cruise with 5 ports of call: Toulon, Villefranche, La Spezia, Rome, and Naples. We are a family of 4 from the US (My husband and I are 40 yrs old and 2 daughters, ages 11 and 10). This was only our second cruise. Our first being the Disney cruise 7 years ago.

Embarkation: Very easy. We booked a Jr Suite (9626) and embarkation took probably 20 min. I was very surprised by this. We were probably on board by 1pm. One note about bringing wine on board. I read (and devoured information) that we were allowed 2 bottles of wine per cabin on embarkation day. So hubby and I each packed 1 bottle of wine each in each of our carry-on and got through security with no questions asked. We also had some bottles of water but surprisingly, security didn't question one thing. After going through security, you enter a duty-free shop. What?! Why is this AFTER security? Believe me, I was pretty happy but then thought, maybe we have to got through security again? No, not the case. The lady in the wine shop told me that we were allowed TWO bottles of wine PER PERSON. WHAT!? I think she had her facts wrong but thought we could blame it on her if we were stopped. So, we bought two additional bottles of wine and had a total of 4 bottles of wine to enjoy on the cruise. There was no additional security after Duty-Free. Truth be told, we were pathetic and couldn't even drink all 4 bottles and ended up giving 1 bottle to our attendant at the end of cruise, lol!

Ship: I was a bit underwhelmed with the ship when we first boarded and toured around. The Promenade was not as impressive or grand as I thought it would be. I have to say, as the days went on, the ship grew on me. I don't have much to compare it to as we are not experienced cruisers but I would describe the ship as average to above average. There are some lounges, bars and public spaces that are very pretty indeed. Nice ship just no "wow" factor.

Cabin Review

Great location, not too far from elevators. We liked being port side on this Mediterranean cruise as we always had the land within site.

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