Carnival Liberty 02/04/06 8 Day Eastern Caribbean

I will start with a little about us. We are a 41 and 42-year-old married couple. We cruised this time with our 25-year-old son and his girlfriend. This was our eleventh cruise, eighth, with Carnival. We are members of Cruise Critic and had plans to hook up 2 couples we cruised with last year and with about 20 of our new online friends. It was a FUN group and we have already booked a cruise together for next year. Thank you Cruise Critic for being responsible for new friendships and pre-cruise and post cruise fun!

Getting There: We flew out of Akron and into Ft. Lauderdale. I had great direct flights booked with Air Tran out of Pittsburgh and 2 weeks prior to sailing they changed them to flights with layovers and poor flight times. The airline had us getting into Ft. Lauderdale so late that I would miss an exhibit that I had tickets for. We switched things around and flew out of Akron instead. It was not a good start to my vacation as I had to spend an extra night in a hotel, but we made the best of it. We stayed at the Hampton Inn by the airport. It was nice and clean. I would stay there again if I ever fly out of Akron again. Read more