Life on Liberty 2/21-2/28: Mo'Bay, GC, Cozumel

[BecciBoo]

You can ask for a robe, they will bring you one.

 

Thanks again, loving your review. Watching Karen too, they are at muster, but waiting for her to sign on Periscope for sailaway....just a couple months to go...

[Beachiekeen]

We left Dallas Saturday morning for Galveston and headed straight to the Spot for lunch. We had tried to eat here last year but it was a madhouse.

 

When your drink comes in a coconut, you know you're on vacation!

 

 

 

 

We took some pictures of the pleasure pier and the beach.

 

 

 

We then drove over to the part of Galveston known as the Strand. It's closer to the pier and has all these little shops and nice hotels--unfortunately, they all have a 2-night minimum on the weekends so we opted to stay the night at the Comfort Inn in Texas City.

 

We ended our day with drinks at the Tremont House before heading to the Comfort Inn for the night. I laid my sail away outfit out for the next morning.

 

 

Tomorrow the cruise we planned 8 months ago is here!

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anxiously awaiting your info. Thanks for taking the time!

[Beachiekeen]

You can ask for a robe, they will bring you one.

 

Thanks again, loving your review. Watching Karen too, they are at muster, but waiting for her to sign on Periscope for sailaway....just a couple months to go...

 

I had read that but I had also read about people being turned down. I just brought one of my own this time.

[caseythegr]

Thanks so much for all this information! I'm doing b2b on Liberty 4/3 & 4/10. I've been watching a few periscope videos from Karen, internetwhiz. Did you meet her? She's b2b.

 

Hey Kay

We're sailing n April 24th! Do a b2b2b2b and sail with us.:)

Laurie

[caseythegr]

More to come!

 

Yeah! Love the review so far, thanks for posting.

Laurie

[Beachiekeen]

After the free breakfast at the Comfort Inn, we left around 9:30 to head to the port. The RC terminal was much more well-marked than the Carnival terminal. We found the place to drop off our bags easily and then proceeded to check in. We were seated in the waiting area by 10:20 for a little bit of a wait and were onboard by 11:30.

 

Hubby wanted me to see the promenade first thing.

 

 

We walked around and saw the pool and Solarium (where I planned to spend a lot of my time).

 

Some of my pictures are flawed because unbeknownst to me, I had cracked the glass of my iPhone camera in Galveston. When I realized it, I took the rest of my pictures on my Canon or hubby's iPhone. I tried to recreate them all with the camera later, but I'll include some of them since they are the only shots I have.

 

 

 

 

We went up to Olive or Twist to see where our Meet & Mingle would be the next day. We loved this place and the view was beautiful. Our Carnival ship did not have any venues like this where you could have a drink and look out over the ship.

 

[Funbobby68]

Great review so far we are also staying at the comfort inn Texas city , any thoughts good or bad

[Beachiekeen]

We were ready for lunch about now and since none of us wanted to endure the madhouse of the buffet, we decided to eat at Johnny Rockets. The crew had handed us 1/2 off coupons as we boarded that were only good for today so we thought that sounded good.

 

We all ordered burgers and a basket of fries and onion rings.

 

 

 

 

Hubby had really been looking forward to this but he and BFF didn't think it was that great. I thought it was fine and thought maybe since it was day one, maybe it would have been better later in the week. But we never went back. But for half price, I didn't think it was too bad.

 

By now, it was 1:00 so we headed up to our rooms on Deck 6. BFF was in an interior overlooking the promenade just a few doors down from us. Hubby and I were in a balcony room on the center of the hump. I was so excited to have a balcony this time!

 

 

[cruising grandma]

Hey Kay

We're sailing n April 24th! Do a b2b2b2b and sail with us.:)

Laurie

 

Hi Laurie! Would love to do a b2b2b2b.......but I'll only be home a week after my b2b before John and I fly back to Tampa for a transatlantic cruise on Brilliance! (4/26-5/10) Tampa to Barcelona (Nope, I didn't have any of these three cruised booked when I left Freedom 2/7!) Somehow, I get very bored at home, so just book more cruises!:D

[Beachiekeen]

Great review so far we are also staying at the comfort inn Texas city , any thoughts good or bad

 

We stayed there last year too and thought it was fine. It's only a 20 minute ride at most to the port, and then we just park at Park & Cruise right across the street and walk over. They have free breakfast in the morning to tide you over until lunch on the ship. It's clean with a comfortable bed. Perfectly fine for one night and for $87, you can't beat it. I have some pictures of our room last year in my Magic review in my signature.

[cruising grandma]

I like Johnny Rockets and will be looking for those coupons! Thanks! I have a promenade on deck six first week, then move to an inside on deck six the following week. Did your friend hear any noise in his cabin from the promenade?

Edited February 28, 2016 by cruising grandma

[Beachiekeen]

More room pictures. I thought our room was very similar to the one we had on Carnival last year in a lot of ways.

 

 

 

 

I always hear people complain about the closets, but I haven't found them to be too small at all. We even fit our gigantic suitcase in there.

 

[Beachiekeen]

I like Johnny Rockets and will be looking for those coupons! Thanks! I have a promenade on deck six first week, then move to an inside on deck six the following week. Did your friend hear any noise in his cabin from the promenade?

 

That's a very good question and I'll ask him. Hubby and I thought at some points he must have but he never said anything to us. When we were checking out his room, we could actually wave to the people directly across the promenade. I thought it was a nice room for an inside room though.

[comoceva]

Nice pictures. Love your review.

[journey2002]

Loving the detailed, great review so far! We sail in July and I can't wait!

 

 

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[Beachiekeen]

We didn't have luggage yet of course so after checking out our digs, we continued our tour of the ship, seeing the casino next.

 

 

 

 

Next we went and saw the gym and spa.

 

 

The sauna and steam room are located in the gym and are open from 8 am-8pm. They can be used free of charge. I used it twice. I know this gets asked a lot so feel free to use it all you want. There is also a bathroom, but only 1.

 

 

[Beachiekeen]

More steam room pics. We didn't tour the actual spa itself where you get treatments.

 

 

 

Next we went down to see the water slides.

 

 

 

The much maligned Tidal Wave is not operational and they don't know when it will be. Frankly, it looks very dangerous to me as is. It's hard to get a picture of the entire thing.

 

 

Flowrider:

 

 

I'll continue later today or tomorrow.

Edited February 28, 2016 by Beachiekeen

[Beachiekeen]

I like Johnny Rockets and will be looking for those coupons! Thanks! I have a promenade on deck six first week, then move to an inside on deck six the following week. Did your friend hear any noise in his cabin from the promenade?

 

Hubby says he asked him and he said he never heard anything. And there were a couple of nights we went to bed fairly early.

[LuCruise]

Subscribing. Great review so far. The Tidal Wave sure looks scary.

 

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[klaner64]

Awesome pictures and review.

[TXMary]

Thanks for posting! Great review so far! We are doing a b2b in the fall and I'm so excited to see Liberty info and pics!

[Locobill49]

Nice review

[Denversail]

Thank you for taking the time.

 

 

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[geoblond]

Enjoying your review and pictures. I appreciate your balcony picture because I was wondering if they upgraded the balcony tables during dry dock. Sadly, no :(

 

Your anchor tee shirt is cute!