We flew with Canjet from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale the day before the cruise and stayed at a friend's hotel-condo in Sunny Isles Beach. Being there overnight, we had rented a car which we dropped off at the Miami airport prior to arriving at the Port of Miami via the rental car shuttle.

Embarkation:

After reading some horror stories of delayed/slow embarkation for the Liberty's Eastern Caribbean itinerary due to slow disembarkation from the previous Western Caribbean cruises to Belize, we decided to arrive at the port a bit later than usual to try to miss the line ups. We arrived at around 12:45pm to see a significant amount of luggage lining the curb, but no line-ups to get into the terminal. We tipped the porter for our luggage, and headed inside. Once inside, there was a crowd of people in the small lower floor lobby waiting to go upstairs to security. They had temporarily closed access to the upper level due to the number of people waiting to go through security. We waited here for about 15-20 minutes, and were then allowed upstairs to the security line. This line moved quite fast, however upon reaching the front, we were told that due to crowds inside the check-in area, they were holding the line. Another 20 minutes later, we were allowed through security. The check-in line moved relatively quickly and we were soon on our way onto the ship, seapasses in hand around 2:30pm. The process wasn't as fast as for previous cruises out of Port Everglades and Bayonne, NJ, however it wasn't as bad as we expected. Read more