chadnipp

Just landed in fort Lauderdale. 10 min away from our first cruise with royal. Super excited.

Everytime we cruise or visit another country we buy a Christmas ornament from the ship or port and add it to our tree. It's cool to see how it's grown since our first ornament.

So glad you posted the info for this cruise. Just booked it along with our flight. Cheapest cruise I have ever booked and it's on the biggest ship I have ever been on.
Did anyone else book this cruise as well.

When it comes to Caribbean beach days, really hard to beat Labadee.  I really like what this island has become.

So me and my wife are going on our first ever Royal Caribbean cruise in 3 weeks.  We were set to go to europe later on in the year but that couldnt happen so we jumped on this weeks deal on Liberty of the seas for next to nothing.  I have been on three Carnival cruises but never royal and my question is should I book drink packages and tix to shows online. Wil carnival they dont have tix, its first come first serve, and they dont have the option of booking drink packages online either. I also plan on eating at Chops while we are on this cruise and didnt know if I should book that online as well.  Any feedback would be great.  Super excited.  Vacation just went from man its going to be a while to woo hoo its here.  hahaha

We always fly in the day before... Gets rid of jet lag/motion sickness and there is no stressing about missing connections or worse, the ship! Then you get an extra days vacation as well!

I always book early. Already booked our sept 1st 2014 cruise a week ago. Like matt, all of the previous cruise planning and research is part of the fun for me. I am interested however one day planning on vacationing near a port so I can try to book last minute. And when I say last minute I mean day that the cruise is leaving. I heard two different people on my last two cruises that cruised out of Jacksonville and port Canaveral say that they both lived locally and had there bags already packed and called the cruise line the morning of the cruise and said "I'm at the port, bags are packed. Do you have any rooms still empty and what's your best price to have me fill that room. One couple said they paid 105 per person for the 5 day cruise and 1 paid 125 per person for a 5 day. Obviously it could back fire if the ship is booked up bug I still want to try it sometime. Might get lucky.

I listened to a comedian once on a cruise talking get about how you have to be careful about going home and thinking your still on the cruise. Wife made dinner and after the husband finished he got up threw is napkin down and walked to the other room. Wife got up and yelled " hey. Get back here and put thus in the dishwasher. This ain't the lido deck." haha. It was pretty funny and so true.

My wife and I cruised to Mazatlan in 2009 for our Honeymoon and rented a 4 wheeler at a small spot near the port. We were told we could take the atv anywhere we wanted including on the road so we drove around the downtown area on an Atv on a super busy road. There were times when there were cars on both sides of us so close my wife had to pull her arms closer to her so not to touch the cars.  They would cram 3 or 4 cars in a row onto a road that would be the same size as a two lane road in the states. It was pretty crazy. From what I could tell there were no road rules at all. It was just try not to hit anyone.  We eventually got on some side roads and found a an off road trail that led up to a lighthouse that you could see the whole city from. It was pretty awesome experience and cost about 25.00 to rent the Atv.  

Really enjoyed all the posts. As we will be going on the Liberty of the seas it was giving me alot of insight into the ship we will be on.  So I will be honest. I have never eaten at a specialty restaurant mainly cus I have always enjoyed the other food that they offer and its already included but between you and Matt I have been thoroughly convinced to try Chops as I am a huge steak lover. Every time I read a post of someone going there or see pictures I am more reassured that I will be trying it out when we cruise.  Thanks again for the detailed Posts 

Sounds like Chops was great again!