This was only our 2nd cruise. The first was on Celebrity to Alaska, so we went in to this believing that nothing would compare to that cruise and had low expectations. (We chose this one because we live in Texas and wanted to do a cruise out of Galveston so we didn't have to fly) We were amazed. The Liberty is a beautiful ship. Embarkation was a breeze and disembarkation went very quickly as well. (We did self-assist)

We had a balcony cabin (8298) and our stateroom attendant was great. The room was always clean and we had towel animals every night (only on formal nights on Celebrity). The only time we had a problem was when the TV remote just suddenly stopped working - we were trying to turn the TV off before going to dinner and it wouldn't work at all. We saw our SA in the hallway and told him about it and when we got back, it was working again. :)

I had heard and read about how the food was not good on Royal, and honestly didn't expect it to be as good as Celebrity... but wow. We ate in the dining room every night and LOVED everything we had. My husband is a huge steak lover and the steak he got on the first night he said was probably the best steak he has ever had. That's saying a lot. We sat at a 4-top so we dined with another couple and all of us thought the food was simply wonderful every night. We had room service for breakfast twice - it was good. The other days we went to the Windjammer and it was also good. They had made-to-order omelets but I never wanted to stand in the line, so I usually just got scrambled eggs (they were just okay) and some kind of meat and a pastry. DH and I are BIG bacon lovers.... so the only disappointment in the food to us was the bacon. We had it in room service, Windjammer, and in the MDR for breakfast and all 3 places it was inedible. Super-greasy and floppy and just gross. But we didn't get anything else that we didn't like so cheers to the food on Liberty!! Read more