Carnival Liberty Review

New Years Cruise--Had a good time even if it was on Carnival

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Liberty
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Misty5757
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Dec 2012
Cabin: Ocean View

Everytime we get off a Carnival Cruise--we say that we will never go on another Carnival ship--what happens is that someone else books on Carnival--invites us along and then we find uourselves on another Carnival cruise. This is precisely what happened for this cruise--so our expectations were low going in. Embarkation was efficient and being a repeat cruiser puts you in a shorter line. Our cabin was surprisingly large with a nice couch seating area--we had paid for a guaranteed outside room and were pleasantly surprised by the relatively spacious room.

The food was for the most part "blah". Breakfast and lunch was genererally only available on the Lido buffet--and there wasn't too much variation--none that I could see for breakfast whatsoever-same Danish, same fruit, same oatmeal, long lines for the omelets, etc. Lunch was generally the Burger bar--greasy wonderful tasting burgers that were fried with huge globs of butter on top of the ground meat--along with fantastically greasy seasoned french fries. The other specialty stations available at lunch--Mongolian wok, deli sandwhiches, and pizza were generally associated with lines too long to be reasonable. Dinner in the main dining room was typical Carvinal--some food good, some not so good--but generally pretty boring. We had dinner one evening in the Diamond steakhouse and were expecting the wow experience that one generally finds in cruise ship pay-extra steakhouses--but weren't too impressed and don't recommend this option.

Really enjoyed doing New Year's Eve on the ship--Carnival has the reputation of being a party ship and they lived up to this reputation. As far as entertainment on the ship--there was always someplace to sit and listen to music, singing--no matter if it was the afternoon or after midnight--there was always someplace to dance and to party.

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Ocean View

Cabin 6A

Cabin relatively spacious. Great closets and storage area. Quiet (except on New Years Eve with folks runing up and down the halls). Good location.

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