cruisinkid

The Liberty was my home for 4 months, I however do notwork for CCL anymore, but I still have a lot of friends that do and I know exactly what is happeningon that ship minute for minute.

Yes there was a fire, was it really a small one? They don't know.

Yes they are letting people of the ship to enjoy St. Thomas more.

Yes they are flying people home on chartered aircraft, because there are not a lot of commercial flights that come in to St. Thomas on a daily basis that could accommodate over 3,000 pax. Today 800 guests will be flown home,and this will continue until all the pax are off the ship. How long that will take, I don't know.

The compensation package is $150 on the SS Card, refund of the cruise and 50% off of another cruise in the future.

As far as crew, they are staying put and working altered shifts to entertain the guests that remain.

The ship will not leave St. Thomas until all guests are cleared. That's also if the USCG allows the ship to sail back to San Juan. I have heard that they will be tugged back to San Juan for further repairs. Nobody knows how long this will take and if the crew will stay on board or be sent elsewhere until the ship is fixed.

Latest: the engine that caught on fire also has 3 more engines in the same fire zone as the one that went up, so it is not safe for them to use the 3 engines in case another one goes up, then all 3 remaining engines could go up at the same time which would be catastrophic

These are the facts as I know them coming from crew members that are on board..

YOu can bring a bottle of wine per person upon embarkation... It's nice to have if you want to sit on your balcony and relax :)

<quote> I'll say, we didn't like the Holiday (I wish I'd done a review on that ship) but I'd never recommend anyone to sail on it. </quote>

Very interesting...my Sister was a dancer on the Holiday for several contracts....I sailed her once...only b/c I was visiting my sister, so I got to go hang out with her at the crew area, which is definitely where the real fun is. The crew (entertainers) are definitely a tight knot group, but they were sweet.... My sister's last contract was on the Fantasy, so she wan't on the Holiday in 2006...would've been cool if you would have seen her perform :)

I bought it for this cruise b/c I had surgery last week and if there were any complications which would cause me to have to cancel I'd be covered...Thankfully everything turned out ok. I like to err on the side of caution, so I like to have insurance just in case.

OP...what kind of camera did you use?? Those storm pictures are amazing!! I can never seem to time my shots to get the lightening bolts :)