Carnival Liberty Review

14 of us and no one lost at sea!!

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alliemaru
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Dec 2007
Cabin: Interior
Traveled with children

We planned this trip instead of doing a big christmas this year and brought 14 people ranging in age from 5-80 years old. This is my 2nd cruise personally and the first time on Carnival. Our first cruise was with Royal Caribbean. Lets get the bad parts out of the way first. I have never stood in line so long for anything as much as i did to embark and even the buffet lines were insane. I only ate at Emile's once due to the horrible wait time just to get food.. I am not sure what the hold up was and maybe it was just my timing but we stuck to the dining room. The embark process was unreal. From being dropped off to onboard was over 1 hour 30 mins. That seemed excessive to me since it was less than 20 mins on our last cruise. Now with that being said, Everything else was simply great. The staff and service was incredible. Our dining room staff went above and beyond nightly. Victor and Augustino were so friendly and after the very first night, when we went to breakfast the next morning they greeted the entire group of us by name. Every night at dinner my 5 year old cousin was sound asleep before dessert so Victor brought her a plate of no less than a dozen cookies so when she woke up she had a bedtime snack. The food was wonderful and only the lobster was less than great.. but how you do lobster for 2500 people i don't know.

With such an age gap we were really looking forward to the kids programs. With kids aged 5, 10, 12, 15 and 17 they were all in different age groups and they really wanted to spend more time together so we really didn't utilize all the options but everything the kids did do they enjoyed.. except for the older kids who hated the club O2 only because there was really no one there and not much to do.. But when did you please a 15 and 17 year old?

The 30 something women on the cruise (myself included) found ourselves spending a ton of time at the Cabinet bar listening to the Joseph Filipow trio. The guys were amazing and even put up with requests:) ps. Don't ask him to play lynyrd skynyrd:) They do play a mean version of mission impossible.

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