Liberty of the Seas Review

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Great Gambling & Family Fun on the Liberty!

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Bluegirl
First Time Cruiser • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Jan 2010
Cabin: Owner's Suite
Traveled with children

Foreword This was the 7th cruise for our family (my husband and myself, who are in our 40's, and two sons, 6 and 4) and our 3rd on RCI. (Our other cruises were on Carnival—twice—Princess and Celebrity.) We loved RCI as much as our kids, who can hardly wait to get to Adventure Ocean as soon as we board. After being on the Mariner last summer (on the Nickelodeon Cruise), we decided to stick with RCI as much as possible. The Liberty looked like a newer, extended version of the Mariner—with its H20 Zone and all that jazz (Flowrider)—and that's why we chose it. We had never cruised before during January, though, and it would never have occurred to us that it could be COLD in the Caribbean. But it was! We nearly froze! Of course, this was unseasonable weather for Florida and the whole region. I just thought, the farther south we got, the warmer we would be. Not so. Our one, perfect, sunny day was our first day shore side, in Labadee, which was glorious. Our coldest day (and night) was the last at sea, when high winds and hard rain closed all the pools, no one in their right mind would venture outside (the pool water was sloshing out of the pools and achieveing "big air" as it did so), and the temperature felt like below freezing out on the balcony once darkness had fallen. Of course, this all has nothing to do with the Liberty or RCI or the price of bread, but I thought I would add it as a caution to prospective winter cruisers. I don't know that I would choose to book a January cruise in the Caribbean again.

Embarkation A great cruise started off badly: embarkation was a complete and utter nightmare. We had never had a single, even minor problem before with either embarkation or disembarkation, so I guess we were due.

For some reason that will never be clear, processing of the guests waiting to board did not begin until after 2pm at the Miami terminal. We arrived at the terminal at about 11am by taxi, having stayed the night before at the Hilton near the Ft. Lauderdale airport. (We chose this hotel as the La Quinta from our last pre-cruise stay turned out to be disgusting and graffiti covered, meanwhile the Hilton had full room service until midnight, and we always fly in pretty late from the West.)

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Owner's Suite 1334 was fantastic. Clean, lovely, spacious, in good repair. It is conveniently close to the main elevators. It is also located under the women's bathroom between the Windjammer and the pool deck above, and the flushing of toilets (a distant, misty sound, which my husband was not able to identify on his own) can be heard, especially in the bathroom. However, it's usually during the times of day when you're less likely to be in your room and does not disturb anyhow. It sounds too far away for that. And it certainly ceases nearly completely once the Windjammer closes down in the evening and the pools empty out for the night. The balcony runs the full length of the cabin. If you peak a bit over the side and look aft, you can just barely see to the back of the boat. The balcony/cabin angle a bit as they are located in the front of the hump; however, nobody not on the hump can see onto the balcony. That is a myth. A great cabin! I would definitely book it again.

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