It was our final morning and as always, I got up to head out to the balcony. As predicted, it was foggy. Very foggy! We were sitting still off the Texas coast waiting on the Port Authority to give permission to come into dock. In the distance, we could see some other ships, but the fog was thick enough that it was hard to tell just how close or how far away they were.
Regardless of the fog, the ship’s crew needed to stick to schedule as much as possible and since the Windjammer was only open for a few hours on our last morning, we got dressed and headed upstairs for some breakfast.
The Windjammer is extremely packed on two days of a cruise – Day 1 and Day 7 – and it was packed full of passengers. Most were looking sad and tired as they stood in different lines to get their food. Tables were difficult to find, but our friend Gena (you can read about Gena here) helped us find a table and we were soon making our way thru the crowd for our farewell breakfast.
Word from the Captain was that we would be pulling into port sometime after 10:00, but everyone needed to be out of their staterooms by 9:00. Even though we couldn’t leave the ship, the crew still needed to get everything set up and ready for the new passengers that would be getting on the ship later that day. So we stayed in our room as long as we could and then headed to our assigned place to await our departure information.
You might think it was exciting news that our ship was delayed getting into port, but with most everything shut down in preparation for the next cruiser’s arrival, all we could do was sit and wait. There were a couple of places open for drinks and food, but it was primarily just sit and wait.
Finally, 3 hours after our original disembarkation time, we were getting off the ship. After the long wait, it wasn’t quite as sad leaving the ship 🙂
The check out process, like the check in process, went pretty smoothly. We stood in line, but the line continued to move steadily. We found our luggage quickly and stood in another line waiting to get thru customs. Once thru customs, we headed to our assigned spot to catch the shuttle to the cruise parking lot and soon were on our way to Houston to drop our friends off for their flight back home.
Hubby and I both agree that while we enjoyed our cruise this year, we enjoyed our cruise on Allure a little bit more. Liberty of the Seas is a nice ship, with lots of activities to keep everyone busy. The food and service were wonderful. The shows were entertaining. The pool area was very nice and we left our cruise with lots of wonderful memories.
Would we take another cruise on Liberty, absolutely! However, we are more interested in cruising on Allure again and trying out some of Royal Caribbean’s other ships. For a matter-of-fact, we left the ship with our European cruise scheduled but we scheduled a second cruise as well. Right now we’re scheduled to go back to the Western Caribbean in December, but will likely change our itinerary and head back to the Eastern Caribbean or to the Southern Caribbean in January of 2018 . We have some time to decide and with our reservations already made, it will be easy to change.
For now I’ll say Bon Voyage and leave you with more pictures from our week on Liberty of the Seas in the Western Caribbean.
