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Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms! Gorgeous weather today on Liberty as we have passed the storms and will hit our first port tomorrow. My DH is doing the Americas Cup sailing excursion tomorrow. I originally was going but was advised to skip it. Liberty had a beautiful cake in the WJ at lunch. Probably long gone now based on the sizes of the slices they were giving. I asked for a small piece! It was good though. We shared one piece and still have a pile of frosting leftover. It was strawberry shortcake with fresh berries and a very nice sponge cake with a light frosting. Well done by the pastry chef!

We usually do CK and specialty too but no CK on Liberty. We aren’t fans of Giovanni’s either, we prefer Jamie’s. We have avoided MDR in the past but since we are nine nights, there are additional menus we haven’t seen before. We will give it one last shot tonight and then we’ll do Chops and WJ. We are also looking into Celebrity to mix it up a bit.

I am very happy that our next cruise is on your favorite ship! We might try to get on Symphony this summer but can’t wait for Odyssey to get to Bayonne later this year.

Glad others have had good experiences on Liberty. Ours has not been the greatest. Dining room issues still remain. Early seating was overbooked by over 200 people. We had early seating from when I originally booked and us what is on our cruise documents. Once we boarded, we saw we had my time dining and went to dining room to have it fixed. They put us on a list and said we would get a note in our cabin. That never happened. Spoke to concierge, she made a few calls, couldn’t get it fixed. Went last night and were in line for over a half hour and were told we would have to do that every night. We are being told that 5:15 on our booking is a request, not a reservation! Received a dinner reservation in cabin today, along with a bottle of champagne and plate of sweets. Went to dinner at 5:30 and was told to take our place in line. Spoke to head waiter again and he will seat us each night but still no assigned table. Many upset people. C&A status means nothing as far as priority in getting this corrected. We are giving MDR one more try and then we are just going to do Windjammer and Chops again. Weather last night was crazy with driving rain and high seas. Rain most of the day so activities moved inside or canceled. Line dancing moved to Royal Promenade, archery to Studio B, movies added in main theatre. Cruise director is trying. We didn’t see the gorgeous skies last night due to weather but have seen some unbelievable pictures from home. Massachusetts had a great show! Heard if you still have your eclipse glasses, you can see the sunspot if you look at the sun. Think tomorrow is last day to see it. Hoping our calmer seas stay with us for the rest of the night. Liberty shimmies a lot. Luckily, we do fine with the movement. Lots on rollcall looking for patches.

We booked this because of timing and price. We wanted to do Symphony since it is doing its first summer out of Bayonne but it was pricey. We are doing nine days for significantly less than what we could have done seven on Symphony. I wasn’t sure about the older ship but it is well maintained. Our cabin carpet needs replacing but is clean. We prefer the cabin features of the new ships but not a big deal. Food has been good so far. Chops was excellent last night. Best food and service we have had in recent years. MDR tonight will be interesting. We had early seating on our reservation but they moved us to MTD. Went to have it fixed yesterday and they “put us on the list” of those that needed correcting. Was supposed to have a note by 4pm today. Nothing yet. Not expecting it at this point. Went to MDR earlier and was told they are fixing it now. Casino is crazy smoky, so that’s going to save us money. We just saw the ice show and it was the best we have seen on any ship! Great skating without a ton of props like some of the shows. Lots of C&A members on this sailing. Tons of families too. Haven’t heard a kid total yet but lots more than expected with school still in session. If someone could flip that last picture for me that would be great. I can’t get it to flip on my phone. Thanks.

Puerto Plata is new for us too. We don’t mind missing Labadee.

We are on Liberty out of Bayonne. It’s a nine night that originally was going to Bermuda, St Marten, San Juan and Labadee. We are now skipping Bermuda because there’s really bad weather between NJ and Bermuda. We are hugging the coast, heading south to St Marten. Our Labadee stop was changed to Puerto Plata due to the issues in Haiti. I haven’t been on this class ship in a long time. Will be interesting to hear how many are onboard at the top tier this morning. It seems really crowded but that could have been first day craziness.

We sailed from Cape Liberty today. The garage had a sign outside saying handicap parking only but was closed for resurfacing. All cars were sent to an outside lot past the employee parking tent. There was handicap parking way down there and there were shuttles running from that lot to the terminal. We walked from the lot because we didn’t know there were shuttles until we were halfway back to the terminal. Not sure what we are going to do after the cruise as we will have all our luggage and I doubt a porter will go that far. Porters have taken us to the close lot that is across from the parking garage but we might have to take the shuttle or have one of us wait with bags and other go get the car.

Cruise starting great. Just announced we are skipping Bermuda due to weather conditions and first port is now day five.

It says bookings made today and sailings May 9 thru May 31. We are sailing very soon and the water package is 45% off and deluxe beverage package is $64.99, which is 35% off.

Same thing is happening to me too.

@CruiszBug Beautiful pictures. This last set is the first I can see.

I leave on that ship and itinerary Thursday. I have sailed Freedom but not Liberty. I can let you know what we think when we get back.

I can't see any of them either. I tried my laptop and my iphone.

I looked at Marine Traffic for the ship's position but the information is almost 5 hours old for Harmony. At that point, it was at the tip of the island.