We recently traveled on the Carnival Liberty out of Miami July 6-13. Overall, Carnival continued to live up to their reputation as the Fun Ship which is why we continually choose to travel on Carnival. We recently tried out the Norwegian Star out of New Orleans over Easter Spring Break for a 7-day cruise and though we had fun on that, we couldn't wait to travel on Carnival again and booked this recent cruise immediately upon our return from the Norwegian cruise.

That being said, there were a few bumps along the way but nothing that would discourage us from traveling on Carnival again. The main complaint was that we did not get to travel to our port of St. Thomas because of Tropical Storm Chantal. Carnival instead took us to Nassau - a place I've been to before and was not impressed with. Though disappointed with the change, I understand that safety is paramount and overall, I feel lucky that we were able to go to an alternate port.

Cleanliness of Cabin and Ship - the Carnival workers are tireless in their maintenance of the rooms and ship. On Norwegian, our room was not made up on 3 separate nights and we had to continually beg for extra towels - even have to resort to raiding the linen carts - that was irritating. My son looks forward to the nightly towel animals and Carnival does not disappoint in this respect. Our room was always spotless and it was nice to return to a made up suite each day and night. In addition, the decks were always clean and free of debris. On Norwegian there were always cigarette butts and beer cans around and it was at times like walking through a dumb as we traveled through the pool area. Not the case on the Carnival Liberty. The decks were always pristine in spite of the enormous amount of people who were always at the pool area. The Red Frog Pub and the Blue Iguana Bar/Cantina were the spots to be! Always people there having a great time. Read more