This was the seventh cruise for my wife and I and our sixth with Carnival. We traveled with two other couples (one couple were first time cruisers and the other couple had been on a Princess cruise). We are all in our mid to late 30's. We arrived in San Juan and spent two nights at the Hilton Condado Plaza before boarding the ship. We found this to be a good place to stay pre-cruise. It is an older hotel, however, more than adequate for us. Their pool and beach areas were great and you could see the cruise port from the hotel.
We went over to the cruise port by taxi around 1:30pm on the day of embarkation and did not wait in any lines to board. We walked right on after picking up our ship cards and our rooms were ready! This was the 4th time that my wife and I had sailed on the Carnival Liberty. We really like the ship! It is starting to show it's age a bit and is likely in line for a refurbishment, however, was very clean and there were always people working to maintain the ship.
We had rooms 9241, 9245 and 9249. These are balcony rooms that are located on the pool deck. We find this to be a great location on the ship! We had lunch at Guys Burger joint. Awesome burgers!! We got back off of the ship and did our own walking tour of Old San Juan. After the girls shopped and we stopped for drinks we boarded the ship again around 5pm. We had the late dining, however, we missed dinner in the dining room the first night. We did not realize that it was open seating that ended at 8:15pm on the first night as the safety drill was at 9:30 for the 10pm sailing.
We had room 9245. This is a balcony room that is located on the pool deck. We find this to be a great location on the ship! It is nice to have a couch in the room. We met with our group each evening before dinner and it was comfortable to socialize in this room category. This room was located past the elevators, so there was minimal traffic going by. I would recommend this room location.
Good time on gondola and at Megans Bay Beach!
Good beach day!
Awesome time snorkeling!!
Great day at Maho Beach!
Great experience!
Great time!
Very informative!