Background info, DW 7 I have sailed 9 times now, 4 with Carnival, this is our 2nd sailing on the Liberty, we sailed her back in '07.

Hotel, we stayed at the Hilton Downtown Miami on Biscayne Blvd. $12.00 cab ride to the port, $22.00 cab ride to the airport. It's a beautiful hotel and we able to get port side rooms at no extra cost, the clerk said $5.00 more but never charged us. The friends we were traveling with were generous and booked us rooms pre & post cruise with their Hilton points. We got some great pics of all the ships in port.

The Liberty, The kiosk check in is so easy, even I could do it. You got to the kiosk, swipe your passport, then your cc, take the little piece of paper to the section it tells you and they give you yous S&S cards. Then once your zone is called, you get to go aboard where they put your pic on the card, and you're done. We arrived at the port 10:55 and were on board at 11:50, not too darn bad. We had cabin 8244 for the 4th time, we also stayed in the cabin on a b2b on the Freedom. We really like this location, gee can you tell? Great ship and well maintained. Never an oder, or a mess. The staff were cleaning all the time. Lido deck table cleaners could have been a little faster though. Read more