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Sign up for My Family Time dining. This requires you to be in traditional early dining. The children will finish dinner within 45 minutes, and the Adventure Ocean staff will come to the dining room and take them to AO. You can finish dinner at your leisure.

Yes you will love it! My twins were 4 years old on their first cruise, and they really liked it. They come to the front of the dining room to get the kiddos. :)

Can I have some feedback from parents that have taken their 17 years old and feedback of how they liked the cruise?

My daughter is 16 and loves the teen program. Make sure your son goes on the first night...that's when they all sort of get acquainted. She's into musical theater and she met several other theater kids (they always seem to find each other) and they hung out for the entire cruise. They would set meet ups spots at certain times in certain areas of the ship. She said there were constantly people filtering in and out of the group. On one of the sea days they found themselves pulled into a napkin folding demonstration. ;p She's kept in touch with all of these kids since last summer via Facebook and Instagram. She did come in each night about 1:00, and that was plenty late. Honestly, I don't want her wandering the ship at 3:00 am! Your son will have a blast.

My daughter and I stayed in the "Cow Butt" Cabin on Liberty, which is on deck 6. We had no issue with noise and really loved being able to look down and see what was going on below.

My husband and I usually eat in Chops at least once during a cruise, but the last time we did it was a bit lackluster. Most of the time MDR works fine for our family of five. Our last cruise last summer we ate in the MDR five nights, Windjammer one night and Johnny Rockets once. I really want to try Sabor on our cruise this summer.

I think once our kids are grown and it's just my husband and I , we'll do more specialty dining;

So that's where prepackaged items from home would have come in handy. I always have a few protein bars in my bag. Unless someone is diabetic I think they could go four hours without eating though.

Thanks for that but we have children and I prefer not to hear them whine that they are hungry on vacation. If you don't want to bring snacks that's your perogative.

Why do you want too? Just interested?

We were on an excursion in Grand Cayman last year that started at 11:00 and went to about 3:00. No lunch included...entire time spent on a boat. They did have fresh fruit but that's all they offered. We bought chips and things from the gift shop onboard.

I am very glad to hear that! Thank you for sharing this with us.

We prefer the Freedom class....still large with lots to do but not as big as the Oasis class. We split our family between a promenade cabin and a balcony cabin across the hall. Best of both worlds!

Is it hard to keep those rooms cool? I wondered if they would be hot with all of those windows.

I always found complimentary hot food choices on at least Freedom class and below ships to be very limited in the evening as Windjammer shuts by 9pm. Your only choice is hot pizza or cold sandwiches/wraps from Cafe Promenade and Sorrento's.

 

Especially now that RCI are charging $8 for room service I can only wish the Windjammer can shut at 11pm or midnight. All they need to serve like their afternoon tea menu like burgers, hotdogs, nachos etc.

Agreed! And that pizza is pretty gnarly. I've had better frozen pizza.

This is what we do as well. I've already made reservations for our July 2nd cruise. Our family tends to eat earlier rather than later, so most of our reservations are 6:00-7:00 depending on whether it's a port or sea day.

 

As for My Time Dining, we make reservations. They can be booked online in your cruise planner. The traditional early is too early for us but we don't want to be too late either with kids and if we want to see shows. I made a 6:15 reservation every night and can cancel if we choose to do a specialty restaurant. Like a restaurant, if you just show up, you may or may not be seated right away and since these aren't quick dinners, the wait may be quite long. I strongly suggest you guess at a time you want to eat and make a reservation...they usually will still accommodate you if you are a bit early or a bit late.

A BBC is my favorite drink!

Mr sanchos was awesome!

 

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I second this! My entire family loved it and we are going again this summer.

Fancy coffees! Teens love those.

The no-table issue in the WJ is an Urban Legend.

 

Probably created by someone whom walked in and could not find a table in the first 20 seconds, got mad and left.

 

Then came here and complained enough for people to listen and repeat the lie until everyone believes it, without really having issues

 

On every cruise, I can always find a table at peak times in the WJ(even next to the window) and I can always find a lounger by the pool.

 

Sure it may take a few minutes of walking and asking, but it can be done.......

 

Lucky you. :rolleyes: We always have a terrible time finding a table, but there are five of us.

Yes that's what insurance is for! I have had to cancel a cruise before but was insured with Travelguard. They refunded me in full.

I hope your wife feels better soon and you can re-schedule.

The kids will NOT be sitting on the balcony...no worries! There are only 2 chairs...you can take the vanity chair out, if you need it. Teens will have better things to do than sit on a balcony...I guarantee it!

I was thinking the same thing! Make sure they go to the teens meet & mingle thing on the first night to meet everyone else. We didn't see my 15 year old much on our past cruise! Liberty is a fabulous ship...we booked the same itinerary while on board for next summer.

We went on Liberty in June and enjoyed it so much that we booked the same itinerary for next summer! My husband said it was the best cruise we had ever been on.

For the most part, I'm a person who knows my limits and when to stop drinking. We are not heavy drinkers in "normal" life but we enjoy our drinks on vacation.

I really didn't think about breaking even at any time during the week. I didn't drink constantly, but spread it out through the day. :D Usually a drink or two by the pool in the afternoon and wine with dinner, and a drink or two later in the evening. At dinner, our waiter brought us a wine refill and an after-dinner drink without us asking for either (something different each night which was a fun surprise) and I really enjoyed not having to think about it.

I did not spend the entire cruise drunk and neither did my husband. I'm sure I gained a few pounds after all of those BBC's and Pina Coladas though. :o

I understand the drink packages aren't for everyone. Why all the judgement?

I agree... with the idea that if I purchase an all you could drink package... well I would feel obligated to not just break even... but be ahead... i.e. drunk.

 

I wonder if packages like this are linked to some issues with problem passengers... dancing on the balconey tables and taking a header off the side

Embarkation day lunch in the Windjammer on Liberty was SO crowded. It would be nice if people would finish their food and leave, but they tend to grab a table and camp out until their room is ready. There were tons of people walking around with food trays who could not find a place to sit and eat. I'm not a fan of the Windjammer anyway, but especially embarkation day. Next cruse I think we're just going to eat lunch before boarding and avoid the who thing altogether.

We are also a family of five and we book a balcony with an inside across the hall. On the Liberty we had a promenade across from the balcony and it was really nice to be able to watch the promenade activities from one cabin or hang around on the balcony from the other.

I specifically checked on this because I wanted to know too! We were on the Liberty a month ago. We pre-purchased the premium package online for $47 per day (this was advertised as 20% off and 18% was added to the cart. When we boarded the ship, I checked to see what they were charging and the premium package was $59 per day. In fine print at the bottom it said 18% would be added. So in our case, it was definitely better to pre-purchase.

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Does anyone know if you get a better deal buying a drink package before you cruise or buying it after you get on?

 

Thanks in advance.:)

Inexpensive water shoes work fine. We got ours at Walmart.

We booked a private tour through Liberty Tours to Blue Hole two weeks ago and my entire family loved it!

We're from the Woodlands too and we were on the sailing before yours. Fabulous photos!

These photos are from the "Liberty of the Seas" June 19-June 26 Cruise out of Galveston.

 

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David

The Woodlands, TX

 

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