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This is exactly my thought for my cruise in May. I did book it for my Feb one and loved the heated pool since the ocean and the lagoon pool water was so cold. I have it booked for my cruise next week because even though it is warming up a bit, the water will still probably be a bit chilly. But, I'm not booking it for my May cruise because then I think it's just a waste of money since the lagoon pool and the ocean should be warmed up enough.

I neglected to mention, although I've sailed on quite a few RC ships (D+), I've never sailed on Liberty. For those who have, feel free to give me some insight! 😁

Hi folks! I did a live review on my MSC Magnifica cruise last month and thought I'd try another live for my upcoming LOS cruise in 2 days. My game plan is to cruise once a month (or more some months) for the next year. I started a new job a few months back, weekend overnights. If I book Monday-Friday sailings, I can cruise monthly. The tricky part is: the majority of the 4 night/5 day Monday through Friday sailings leave from Florida and I live in Delaware. Sooo, I have to fly to the cruise AND I have to fly in the day of! Annnd, my flights have to leave between 10:30am and 11:30am. Last week I applied for the TSA checkin to avoid the long security lines at the airport but my clearance hasn't come in yet. I'm hoping I get in time for my solo on Celebrity Reflection next month, we'll see. For this cruise I got an earlier flight than the 10:30a so I took off of work tomorrow night and I've booked a park and fly at a hotel a few miles from the airport in Philadelphia. I do not want to do this often as it adds to the price of my monthly cruise budget and I want to try to keep costs down in order to afford to do all of this vacationing. My flight leaves PHL at around 5:30a so I'm going to take the free shuttle over from the Clarion at about 4am. Another way I'm trying to keep costs down is I do not do any checked bags. I pack a small duffle that fits under the seat in front of me. This also helps with speed at each of the airports since I'm so crunched for time. I limit my bookings to either Miami, Port Everglades or Tampa to keep transportation times from the airport to the port as short as I can. Now, I do realize it's highly probable at some point I'm going to have a plane delay or something that will cause me to miss the ship. If this should happen I plan to still fly to Florida and just spend the week in Miami or something. As you can tell, I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kinda gal! LOL I am currently at work and do not get off until 7:30am. My game plan is to sleep for about 3 hours when I get home in the morning, take a quick shower and then start the drive to Philly, it's about 2 hours from my house. There's a tavern down by the Delaware River in New Castle, Delaware that I just love so I'm going to make a detour there and have a little dinner before getting to the hotel. I hope you'll follow along with me and keep your fingers crossed I don't end up spending a week doing food walking tours in South Beach next week instead of lazing away on the deck of LOS!!! 🤣

Funny, I was thinking this exact thing! Make it all illegal. Alcohol does the same thing, if not worse.

Thank you for your review of the class. I hope they do it better on Liberty in 3 days!! woohoo 😁

Thank you! 😊 I leave in 3 days for my solo on Liberty. I do plant to write a review, I’m still deciding whether to do a live or a review upon completion.

You have to change your password. I had the same problem on both my RC and Celebrity account.

Enjoying the tag along thus far. Thanks for taking us along. 🙂

Exactly. My thought was: I wouldn't even take my family member out of the state. Then it was: actually, not even out of our town....for the very reason you mentioned.

Welcome to Cruise Critic....

When I first read about this story a few days back on the BOOK, that is the first thing I thought. Why in the world are people taking family members with dementia out of the country???

Thanks for your review.

Man o' man I miss that pizza! Less than a month and I am getting a piece 😁

That has not been my experience with MSC at all. I enjoyed the entertainment, food and people all over the ship.

I sailed MSC for the first time last month. I've recently booked a half dozen or so solo cruises on RC, Celebrity and even Carnival and while cruise shopping, I found a really good last-minute deal on MSC and I thought, "what the heck, give it try". I sailed on the Magnifica (in the cheap seats), and I had a very enjoyable cruise. My expectations were low after reading some reviews, but my experience was nowhere near what some of the reviewers experienced. I found MSC to be above Carnival and equal to RC in many ways. Their shows were not as good as RC but MSC has a lot more lounges and bar areas than RC and every time I walked in to one there was live music playing. RC I feel like only has live music playing at 2 or 3 of their lounges at one time and a lot of times in their lounges or bar areas it's just a DJ or music streaming through speakers. I enjoyed MSC so much I am looking to cruise in the YC. I started looking yesterday to book for next year. In the meantime, I booked another short one in the cheap seats for next month. 😆

I pack everything in (and carry with me) a duffle bag. I'm off the ship before 6:30 and at the airport, at the latest, by 7:30a.

My flight out in May is 9:20a....no problem.

Please let me know how the guac class went. I'm reserved for this next week.

My thoughts exactly!!!!! 🤣

On the way back to MIA, it took the Uber a little longer to get to me....maybe 20 min. And the ride to MIA was about 30 or 35 min.

2 weeks ago I ordered an Uber to pick me up at MIA to the port. He was there in like 10 min and the drive to the port was maybe 25 min... it was $25. I head back for another cruise out of Miami twice in the month of May. That worked out so well for me I plan to do the same thing both cruises.

Has anyone done this class/luncheon? Sailing Liberty in 2 weeks and looking to see if anyone has any feedback on their experience doing this activity.

Thanks for the info! 😁

OMG…that cake!!!!

What are Royal's top shelf liquors (rum and vodka)?