*My Platinum Review of Carnival Liberty**Eastern with Pics

[cuted126]

Your truly!

A blurry pic of me and DH. It seems every time I gave my camera to someone else, my pic would come out blurry. I could not figure out why?! My camera doesn't like anyone!

Promenade

Casino

Look, Duracell chairs!

 

I found a friend

[melody hounddog]

Great review so far!

[cuted126]

Nightclub

 

Alchemy Bar always had a crowd!

 

I like this pic

 

Piano Bar

My silly husband

This is in front of the Victoria Lounge

[cuted126]

By the time we got to the end of Promenade,it was time for muster drill. If you’ve read any of my past reviews, you will know that DH and I usually have weird things happen to us right at or before the drills. This time, we were in the right place at the right time for the Drill thank God! Not too long after that, it was time to sail away! The Breeze, which was parked in front of us, sailed first. She had to go and make a "U" or should I say "O" turn. While she was back there, we sailed off!

And let the line dances begin!

I was getting my "wobble" on!

[Webecruzen]

Thank you for doing this review. We sail the same itinerary Thanksgiving week. Reviews are helping me get through the wait.

[edwardsm]

I was anticipating your review of the Liberty. We plan to sail on the Liberty in May. I really enjoy your reviews.

[taylorray]

Thanks! More coming right up!

 

Cool, you should do a review! I was looking hard at your pic to see if I remember seeing you onboard lol!

 

Were you two in the night club on Caribbean music night? I believe it was Wednesday or Thursday night. I may have seen you

[cuted126]

Miami is my FAVORITE port to sail from! I love waving to the folks on the other ships and I love, love, love, the people on the causeways that honk, stop their cars, and get out to wave to you! I just love cruising!

 

Sailing away

South Beach

Now is a good time to talk about Karl with a K! While we were sailing away, the lido party was going on and I was surprised to see the cruise director out doing all the line dances with everyone. How great is that! Karl with a K was the host for a ton of things around the ship, not just the main shows and such. I am used to only seeing the fun patrol lead the deck parties, teaching the dance classes and most everything else, but Karl was out in the middle of it all and we loved him! He was hands down the best cruise director we've ever had!

[cuted126]

Are you sleep? No.....

After line dancing, watching Miami fade away and the breeze trail behind us, we decide to sit on deck 3 for awhile. Deck 3 has to be one of the most serene places on the ship! Dh of course fell asleep and swore up and down he wasn't:rolleyes:

 

We decided to go to dinner early. I think it was around 6:15pm when we met Maribel and her crew! She was soooooooooooooooooooooo nice and sweet. We sat in her section all nights besides the second night! I miss her!

 

Dinner was our usual first night fare. I started with a caeser salad

 

Dh had fried chicken tenders (blurry pic)

I had the Sweet & Sour Shrimp which was very good

I believe this is salmon

[cuted126]

Let's not forget dessert....

 

Black Forest Cake

 

WCMC mickey mouse style

 

After that we went to our room and fell asleep. I was adamant that I did not want to miss the Welcome Aboard Show, but........:p We slept until the next day! A complete 12 hours of sleep.

 

 

It's official, we are old!

[Jenny in TX]

Glad you made your flight....that was close!! Looking forward to the rest of your review.

[Sparky2]

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After that we went to our room and fell asleep. I was adamant that I did not want to miss the Welcome Aboard Show, but........:p We slept until the next day! A complete 12 hours of sleep.

 

 

It's official, we are old![/size]

 

You're not old! You had a lot of pressure in the AM so you deserved to be exhausted. I know that's how I felt the one time I flew in the day of the cruise.

Edited September 26, 2013 by Sparky2

[Jeafl]

We did this same itinerary on the Liberty a few years ago and loved it! We are trying the western route in March, and I hope it's as good!

 

I'm really enjoying your review so far. Can't wait to read the rest!

[cuted126]

Guess who's platinum lol

 

My Hubby seriously had a look like this --->:rolleyes: on his face when I took this pic lol!! Gotta love it!

 

Half Moon Cay up next........ Off to load millions of pics!

[CruisingSoon88]

Thank you so much for this review. We will be doing this same cruise Thanksgiving week! I'm excited about the ports, but I'm afraid my kids will be disappointed with the ship. They have been on the Dream twice and the Breeze in April. I like Conquest class, but I'm trying to prepare them. Hopefully Half Moon Cay will help ease any of their pain! LOL Thanks again and I am excited to see the rest!

[KenMo]

Thanks! I got the Carnival hat! I would have preferred the cup, but my son has worn that hat every day since I got home lol.

 

I was on the same cruise!!! (Did you get sick too?)

 

Anyway, I went down to Guest Services and they had some tumblers left so we were able to trade!

[The4Cruisers]

Wow! That's some first day! Keep up the good review. :)

[alreadypacked]

Great review!! I remember reading your other reviews and they were very good also. Can't wait to read the rest of this one! I did this itinerary on the Liberty 2 years ago (before 2.0 upgrades) and had a great time too.:)

[boaterette]

Really enjoying your review.

[Alikan]

Guess who's platinum lol

 

My Hubby seriously had a look like this --->:rolleyes: on his face when I took this pic lol!! Gotta love it!

 

Half Moon Cay up next........ Off to load millions of pics!

 

Congratulations on becoming platinum. Looking forward to the day i cant take this picture

[Alikan]

Guess who's platinum lol

 

My Hubby seriously had a look like this --->:rolleyes: on his face when I took this pic lol!! Gotta love it!

 

Half Moon Cay up next........ Off to load millions of pics!

 

Congratulations on becoming platinum:) . Looking forward to the day i can take this picture

[mephistoles]

So glad that you were able to make your flight! I totally agree with you about Karl with a K...dude was AWESOME. He seemed to be everywhere and always seemed to have time for a quick chat. We sailed the Breeze this past August and while Butch was great in his own way, I didn't see him half as much as I saw Karl....but then again, maybe it's because the Breeze is a bigger ship(?). I really hate that Karl is retiring because he is so awesome at what he does.

Your husband reminds me so much of mine in that "I'm not asleep" picture. My husband does it all the time and even denies it when I show him photographic evidence. He says that he was just "blinking hard" or "resting his eyes" :rolleyes:

Anyway, I'm loving your review! :D

 

PS...Congrats on the platinum stat....I hope to get there one day

Edited September 27, 2013 by mephistoles

[taecruise2]

Thank you for doing this review. We sail the same itinerary Thanksgiving week. Reviews are helping me get through the wait.

Me too ...... Nov 23 cannot get here soon enough .... Our extended famil has 10 cabins , can't wait to see everyone

[ch27088]

Hubby and I just concluded our long awaited cruise on the Liberty! I have been waiting forever to sail the Liberty and I have been so excited to sail the eastern itinerary again. The Liberty has always looked so pretty in pics and it did not disappoint!

 

 

*Background*

This was my Platinum cruise J which I was overly excited about lol. My hubby was so over me talking about being platinum and I continued just to annoy him! This was hubby’s seventh cruise! We are from Virginia,both in our early-mid 30s and we sail annually for our anniversary! This year we celebrated 8 years. Typically, we drive or fly down the day before, but we couldn’t this time because of childcare issues. We had to push it and fly in the day of the cruise:eek: From the moment we paid our airfare, I started biting my nails. Not a good feeling.

 

 

Our flight schedule was changed TWICE two weeks before sailing and after a bunch of back and forth,irritations and frustrations, we were going to be flying into FLL with an arrival time of 11:51. Not the 2:15 and 3:05 arrivals that they kept wanting to give us. I checked our ever changing flights every day, twice a day, for two weeks hoping for no more changes.

 

Sept. 14

Carnival Liberty +Us= Maybe not meant to be?

 

 

Our flight was set to take off at 7am, so we figured we would drop the kids off, go to our friends house and park there to avoid the airport parking fees, and get to the airport at 6 with plenty of TSA time to spare.

 

 

YEAH, so when we plan, God laughs right……

 

 

We ended up not even leaving our home until about 5:30 and we still had to drop off the kids and then go to our friends home (5 min from airport) to drop our car off and have him take us to airport, as we did not want to pay the outrageous parking fees. At 6:03, yes you read that right, we were just dropping the kids off. I started to panicked. DH assured me we would be fine. “We are very close to his house” with a teary side eye I said okay.

 

 

We got to friends' house at 6:23 and you know what………his truck doesn’t start and you know what else…….I could see the airport from there........ Which meant I was going to see Delta flight “you are not sailing today” leave and fly off into the sky without us.

 

 

I told DH to get in the car and we would pay the airport fees, we had to go, but friends' other car started, so DH insists “Come on, we can make it”. I told him not to speak to me anymore until we were on the flight lol. My brain could not function properly with the thought of missing our flight. All I could think was “At least I’d checked in online already” we just needed to get to that gate and I would knock a few people over (including my husband) to get there!

 

 

We got to the airport, I’m pretty sure I swung the door open before we even stopped completely. I was a madwoman who needed this vacation like I needed air to breathe. At 6:45am we were two of the last ten people to board our flight. At 6:55 we were about to take off and DH was now allowed to talk again lol

 

We got to Fort Lauderdale with no problems, thank God. As soon as I powered my phone on, I had a message from SAS transportation. I made reservations with them and they were calling to let me know they were outside and waiting! PERFECT!! We waited out front for about 10 minutes and then we were on our way to Miami.

 

 

I see Double Whale Tail!!

 

 

Being that this is the latest we ever gotten to the port, this is where being platinum really came in handy. There were people EVERYWHERE! We usually arrive at the port at a quiet 9:30-10am, but by this time it was almost one and the difference was quite intense. The carnival attendant saw "priority” on my boarding pass and we were whisked off to the oh so trendy VIFP captains lounge. This is when I looked at DH and reminded him I was platinum and that I was taking him places, "cool" places at that lol. About 15 min later we were finally on the Liberty!!!

 

 

Liberty + Us = definitely meant to be:D

 

I wish you have warned me that your review was going to start off being funny, because I was drinking coffee and nearly choked when you said that "DH was not allowed to talk". I loved your review from last year (I think it was last year), and I'm loving this review already. Hurry and finish posting please.:D

[Mrs.C05]

Great review! Can't wait for the rest.