My husband, two year old son, and I sailed on the Liberty of the Seas on 12/6/09 to the Western Caribbean. This was our fifth RCCL cruise, our ninth cruise overall, and it was our best one. We were booked in an E1 category, a balcony, room 7610.

The Liberty is a beautiful ship, which not only offers a great itinerary but amazing adventures on board and excellent service. Hubby and I are fairly critical and while we did find some things that could have been better, on the whole we had a terrific experience. We weren't able to take any tours because our son was too young to enjoy them and we were unable to leave him, so we just went to the local beaches. I'll go through the islands, talk about the ship, and then go through what we thought was great, and what could have been better.

Day 1: Miami - Boarding Embarkation took a very long time. We arrived at 1 pm and it was just a mass of people. It was hard to know which line to get onto to register, lines seemed like they weren't moving - it didn't seem as organized or quick as it should have been. Once we did check in, got our picture taken, get our Room card, and got onto the ship, just about everything was forgotten as we marveled at the sheer size and beauty of the boat, as well as our beautiful balcony stateroom. Read more