Carnival Liberty Review
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The was my 3rd time on a Carnival Cruise and my husband and daughter's 1st time. From the minute we got on the ship to when we had to sadly say goodbye, we had a great time.
We stayed the night before in San Juan and bumped into someone in the hotel the morning of our departure that said Carnival was going to start letting before on at 11am. Of course, we were there at 10:59am! My husband and I had a suite (7317) and my daughter and her friend had an interior (7321). We had priority boarding, they had FTTF. We were able to get in the FTTF line and check in. It took, maybe, 10 minutes. We sat for another 30 minutes, when they started boarding. We were in the first group of people to board. Word to the wise, since I haven't done this in a while, when they called "priority and FTTF boarding", walk directly to security. There are people standing there that I thought were ahead of us, only to hear the announcement "we will now begin general boarding" and I realized we could have just continued to security. No problem, we got ahead of the general boarding and were on the ship within 5 minutes, already with a drink in our hands.
We were on the Empress Deck (#7). I heard and read people saying that the 9th deck (Lido) is the best because it was where everything is; I disagree. We were right in the middle of everything. The Lido Deck was 2 above and the Promenade Deck was 2 below. We got the exercise we needed and our cabin steward showed us other elevators (with stairs located right next to them) that took us to other parts of the ship, that we definitely wouldn't have found on our own. Once you figure out where the elevators/stairs take you, you'll be all set with the layout of the ship.
Cabin Review
Ocean Suite
I love this cabin. It's just the right size for 2 people. Here's what's in the room: TV with DVD player, safe, reading lights on both sides of bed, refrigerator filled with soda, liquor and beer, desk with chair, large couch (that changes into a twin bed if needed), large bathroom with Jacuzzi tub and shower (with shampoo and body wash dispensers), clothes line in tub (pulls from wall), double sinks/large mirror and 3 knobs for wet towels and clothes, dressing area with makeup table with four drawers and large mirror as well as 2 closet areas and another closet in the main room. I would suggest brining hangers. They have some in there but not enough if you have a lot to hang.
The bed was comfortable and pushed together as a king but it can be two twins if you ask. The room steward was wonderful. Whatever we needed, I left him a note and that afternoon it would be done. Being that it was a suite, our room was made and ready no later than 10 everyday. That was the best!!! He would come back around 6:30pm or so and do pull down service as well as leave the next day FUNTIMES and new towel animal on the bed.
This cabin is in the middle of the ship and was perfectly centered between everything. There were elevators out the left of our door that took us to the Lido Deck and food. The elevators to our right took us to the Promenade Deck and Lobby.
Noise was okay. We had some people that were pretty loud the 2nd night of the cruise until someone asked them to move their party to one of the decks, but after that, we never heard anything.