Our sailing on the Liberty of the Seas was for our Honeymoon, from Barcelona visiting Toulon (La Seyne Sur Mer, France), Nice & Monaco (Villefranche, France), Pisa & Florence (Livorno, Italy), Rome (Civitavecchia, Italy), and Naples, Sorrento & Capri (Naples, Italy), before returning to Barcelona.
Our first cruising experience was amazing. We didn't want the holiday to end, and thoroughly enjoyed our week. There were of course a couple of things that we'd do differently or bear in mind but overall Royal Caribbean didn't disappoint.
I'd been sceptical of cruising, afraid that it would full of older people with nothing for me to do, and that I might have blown over £3000 on a kind of floating Butlins for the middle classes. What I found was that being in a different location every day with a full entertainment programme was ideal and there were hardly any oldies!
9608 was near to the main lifts, great view, and for most days was the side of the ship with a view of the port. It was very clean, large enough to feel spacious, small bathroom but it seemed about right for being on a ship.