This is a review of the Carnival Liberty, sailing on March 1st for an 8 day Eastern Caribbean itinerary. It was our 3rd cruise in the last year (Western Caribbean on the Carnival Conquest and Alaska on the NCL Pearl last year).

We arrived on Thursday night, primarily because my brother and his wife were joining us from the Seattle area for their first cruise. We wanted a day to acclimatize before sailing and to give us a buffer if anything went wrong. Good thing we did as their flight was canceled and they arrived at 9:00 Friday morning after a red eye flight. So they had a day to recoup from this. We stayed the La Quinta at the Fort Lauderdale airport which offered a cruise port shuttle but by the time we tried to book it, it was full.

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