Carnival Liberty Photo Review- April 2017

[clarkg]

Really enjoying this.

[Kermarkim]

EMBARKATION DAY CONT.:

Can you review with us what Dive In Movies were shown on this cruise. I'm going in 2 weeks with my 14 year old son and would love to have an idea as this is one of our favorite things to do is lay in a lounger in the evening and catch a movie. thanks.

[Kyndal93]

EMBARKATION DAY CONT.:

 

Can you review with us what Dive In Movies were shown on this cruise. I'm going in 2 weeks with my 14 year old son and would love to have an idea as this is one of our favorite things to do is lay in a lounger in the evening and catch a movie. thanks.

 

 

I was just on the Liberty over the weekend. They showed fantastic beasts, trolls, ghostbusters. That's all I remember, there was a couple others

 

 

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[the_lovely_voyage]

EMBARKATION DAY CONT.:

 

Can you review with us what Dive In Movies were shown on this cruise. I'm going in 2 weeks with my 14 year old son and would love to have an idea as this is one of our favorite things to do is lay in a lounger in the evening and catch a movie. thanks.

 

 

Thursday: Ghostbusters and Sing

Friday: Jason Bourne and Fantastic Beasts

Saturday: Trolls and Moana

 

They could be different in two weeks, but this was valid for ours on 4/20-4/23

[Clarea]

Beautiful photos!

[eeyore2623]

Can't wait to read the rest of your review and see pictures. We are in the early stages of planning a cruise on Liberty.

[Kermarkim]

 

 

Thursday: Ghostbusters and Sing

Friday: Jason Bourne and Fantastic Beasts

Saturday: Trolls and Moana

 

They could be different in two weeks, but this was valid for ours on 4/20-4/23

 

Thanks so much. It sounds like something we can work with.

[pirate4me2]

Great review! Thanks for posting this, I love the Liberty!

[Clarasgrandma]

Thanks for sharing!

[CruisinCrow]

Can you review with us what Dive In Movies were shown on this cruise. I'm going in 2 weeks with my 14 year old son and would love to have an idea as this is one of our favorite things to do is lay in a lounger in the evening and catch a movie. thanks.

 

We were on the May 4th cruise.

Thursday: Ghostbusters

Friday: Legend of Zorro, Nacho Libre

Saturday: Seabiscuit, War Horse

 

I suspect our movies might have been unusual due to Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby. :)

[floridacruiser2014]

Thanks for the review. We will be on her in October

 

 

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[navybaby1113]

Enjoying your review so far. Looking forward to the rest of it!

[mrpayroll]

Enjoying your review , especially the pictures. We have been on Liberty three times and will be taking the grand kids in August. They love the pictures so far.

[the_lovely_voyage]

Thursday, Embarkation Day Continued:

 

A brief intermission to add more pictures from walking around the ship.

 

Main Pool, Deck 9:

 

 

Camp Ocean Deck 12 forward, Schedule for Embarkation (Penguins 2-5 y.o., Stingrays 6-8 y.o., Sharks 9-11 y.o.)

Circle C, Deck 4 mid, Schedule for Cruise, Ages 12-14, (zooming in may help to read it)

Circle C-

 

Circle C- Tons of Video Game systems-

Circle C-

[the_lovely_voyage]

Thursday, Embarkation Day Continued:

 

A brief intermission to add even more pictures from walking around the ship.

Gold Olympian Dining Room (Deck 3 and 4 mid, view from 4):

 

 

 

 

The Stage Bar, Deck 5 aft:

 

 

The Alchemy Bar, Deck 5 mid/aft

Casino/Promenade, Deck 5:

Someone asked if there's seating outside of the casino and if you can walked through the promenade from one side of the ship to the other; the answer is yes!

[the_lovely_voyage]

Thursday, Embarkation Day Continued:

We headed to the Blue Iguana Cantina for my fiance to get a burrito (even though we had BBQ no more than 2 hours prior, he was really excited to try the food). He said it was delicious even though the jalapeno tortilla wasn’t that spicy and is now hooked on their burritos. We headed to the Versailles bar and got a round of drinks, which took about 5 minutes to get served, but it wasn’t a big deal.

A comment about the drinks: this was our first of four cruises together that we didn’t buy or receive the unlimited drink package. I was pretty nervous about not having it, since I really enjoy saving money and didn’t want to drink more paying per drink than we would’ve using the drink package. We love the drink packages but are learning that there is an internal pressure to drink and get our money’s worth, even if we don’t really feel like having a drink at the time. Luckily, we made the smart choice to pay per drink on this cruise instead of the package. After some quick calculations, we paid about $200 in drinks instead of the $300 the package would’ve cost us. We had a lot of beverages off the ship in Nassau, so we didn’t drink that much Friday night, and we brought a bottle of wine that accompanied us (via wine glasses I borrowed from the Cabinet Bar upstairs from us) to the dining room. Sure, we probably did limit our purchasing of drinks a little knowing that we pay per drink, but overall it worked well and we definitely won’t be buying the drink package on our honeymoon (8 days, 4 ports).

So back to the review, we hung out at the Versailles bar and pool until muster drill was called. This pool used to be adults-only but the switch to allowing children occurred a few weeks before the sail. I was a little bummed since the Serenity doesn’t have any pools, but the reality is- we don’t swim that much and it didn’t affect us at all. I do totally understand that people do enjoy the pool and having kids in a space that used to be child-free could annoy them. Thankfully we found that relaxing in the Serenity was were we found our quiet time. Also, we don’t recall seeing that many kids on this cruise, so maybe it would’ve been more problematic in the summer. We went to the muster drill and they didn’t scan our cards, but we never got called to redo the drill and even checked with the staff at the drill to make sure we didn’t need to be scanned in, and they said no we were good. The muster drill was very long compared to Royal’s muster drill, but thankfully we weren’t standing in the shade so that part was easier to manage.

Sail Away Party:

After the muster drill we went up to check out the mini golf course before the sail away party started. I was pretty annoyed to find that there were only 3 golf balls and mostly short child-sized clubs. I loved playing mini golf on cruise ships in the past, and I have never seen such short supply of golf balls and clubs. The course itself was a little rough too, with scratched up greens and some broken obstacles. We made do and played a quick round before the large whale tail sounded its loud horn, right next to us on the course. Yep that was pretty startling!

We put our golf materials away and headed down a deck to watch the sail away party and dancing start before making our way to the Serenity for a drink and to watch sail away. It took quite a while to get a drink in the Serenity, probably 7+ minutes, but we think there was only one bartender serving the window and a few other people that were roaming the deck taking orders and making those drinks. We watched sail away and had some great conversation about life and our love for cruising before heading to the room to get ready for dinner.

Watching Sail Away from the Serenity with my fiancé:

UP NEXT- Thursday dinner and evening events

[the_lovely_voyage]

Thursday, Embarkation Day Continued

 

Once back at the room around 5:30ish, we notice that the bathroom sink is still clogged, so we call again to complain and they say they’ll come take care of it. For those still keeping track, 4 hours have passed, we have now called twice and told our room steward once (although we also told her someone was taking care of it). We also noticed that our room steward didn’t bring us a corkscrew yet so we called room service and they brought one over quickly, free of charge! It’s a pretty simple piece of plastic with the metal spiral, but it’ll for sure be our travel corkscrew from now until it breaks! We opened our wine, got ready for dinner, and headed to the the 6pm dinner seating in the Silver Olympian Dining Room in the aft of the ship.

 

Silver Olympian, looks pretty similar to Gold...but in Silver. Huh, imagine that!

We showed up a little early but were seated right away, around 5:55. We had opted to sit with other people, which we were a little apprehensive about. I’ve had one or two less-than-great tablemate experiences but overall, all has gone well, so we decided to try it out again. We were seated at a table for 6, so we were guessing there would be two other couples with us. For the first 20 minutes of dinner, we wouldn’t know who our tablemates were, because no one was showing up. Finally at 6:20, after our orders had been taken, one couple arrives. We ended up having some good conversation, mostly pleasantries about where we’re from and the cruising experience, but it was nice to meet other people. Spoiler: our other two tablemates never showed up for the entire cruise. Also, I had read that Carnival was implementing a policy that if someone arrives 30+ minutes late to the dining room, they would be turned away. I can say for certain that this was not being implemented on this cruise, or at least for our dining room. I was pretty surprised to see people showing up that late, but they were and they were granted access.

MENU- Thursday 4/20/17, Port Canaveral Embarkation

The food was okay. And by okay, I mean I was able to find something that I’d eat, but I don’t think that there was anything I was ever SUPER excited to try or thought was delicious after I had tried it. I know that food is a huge complaint across the boards and I get it- we could’ve eaten somewhere else or asked for something else. We didn’t starve and we didn’t hate the food, but we did find ourselves unimpressed and wanting better food options and quality. My fiancé had the "Rare Finds" Cured Salmon which wasn't what we expected but was okay, and the Vietnamese Roll which was good but mostly filled with noodles and not meat/vegetables. He also had the Port of Call Main dish of Sword Fish which he said was really good but the rice was super dry and not sauced, and the Carnival Melting Cake that was VERY melt-y and really rich. I think had the Chicken Quesadilla which I'm sure was alright, the Sweet and Sour Shrimp which was also not what I expected as it was 90% fried batter with 10% of a stick of shrimp with fried rice, and the Melting Cake that again was really melt-y but I enjoyed it! The service staff was mostly great, no real complaints there.

 

UP NEXT- Thursday evening events

[ccturner26]

Great review so far!

[floridacruiser2014]

Enjoying this review! Looking forward to seeing her in October

 

 

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[CruisinCrow]

The food was okay. And by okay, I mean I was able to find something that I’d eat, but I don’t think that there was anything I was ever SUPER excited to try or thought was delicious after I had tried it. I know that food is a huge complaint across the boards and I get it- we could’ve eaten somewhere else or asked for something else. We didn’t starve and we didn’t hate the food, but we did find ourselves unimpressed and wanting better food options and quality. My fiancé had the "Rare Finds" Cured Salmon which wasn't what we expected but was okay, and the Vietnamese Roll which was good but mostly filled with noodles and not meat/vegetables. He also had the Port of Call Main dish of Sword Fish which he said was really good but the rice was super dry and not sauced, and the Carnival Melting Cake that was VERY melt-y and really rich. I think had the Chicken Quesadilla which I'm sure was alright, the Sweet and Sour Shrimp which was also not what I expected as it was 90% fried batter with 10% of a stick of shrimp with fried rice, and the Melting Cake that again was really melt-y but I enjoyed it! The service staff was mostly great, no real complaints there.

 

I totally agree with you about the dining room food. We were on the May 4 Liberty cruise and I thought the menus were odd. How is salmon a "rare find"? :) And what does swordfish have to do with Florida? I was hoping for some good Bahamian dishes. Like you said, nothing super excited me. But I did love Blue Iguana Cantina and Guy's Burger so the Lido food made up for the dining room.

 

Thanks for posting your review and all the pictures!

[RNsoon2beNP]

Following.... we just got off the Vista in February and just booked a short 3 day for August (Adults only).

[easyboy]

Enjoying your review and nice photos.

[Frank12]

:) And what does swordfish have to do with Florida?

 

Sworfishing is a huge industry in Florida. Fresh swordfish is a staple in our local seafood markets.

[CruisinCrow]

:) And what does swordfish have to do with Florida?

 

Sworfishing is a huge industry in Florida. Fresh swordfish is a staple in our local seafood markets.

 

I never knew that. It must be an east coast thing. I never see swordfish over here on the west coast. It's grouper, mahi or maybe hogfish.

 

I still would have liked some conch fritters. :)

[FLSteve11]

 

I never knew that. It must be an east coast thing. I never see swordfish over here on the west coast. It's grouper, mahi or maybe hogfish.

 

I still would have liked some conch fritters. :)

 

There's a reason the baseball team in Miami is called the Miami Marlins after all (even though they're not really swordfish, they're close). True swordfish can be found up and down the East coast. (Haven't you seen the movie Perfect Storm? :) )