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Carnival Freedom Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 57

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Freedom

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 04, 2017

Ship: Carnival Freedom

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6487

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Carnival Freedom has better-than-expected food in the dining room and other food outlets.  The staff is friendly and makes an effort to know your name.  The cabins are clean and comfortable with lots of storage space.

Negatives: There is no way to escape the cigarette smoke from the casino that pours into the atrium.  The layout of the ship is poor which leaves you almost no way to avoid it.  The singers/dancers for entertainment were terrible.  I've seen high school shows that were more professional!  Go see the comics if you can squeeze into the small theater. There is little entertainment on this cruise.  First time I never saw the cruise director.  This is a very basic Cruise that will only please very inexperienced cruisers with low expectations that only want to drink,. Also, our Key West stop was cancelled due to weather.  That left the Bahamas which have the most boring ports in the Caribbean. Not much of a trip except for the company of good friends!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Shower needed repair but was fixed promptly. This cabin is very noisy with high vibration when the ship is underway. Balcony was nice.

Ship tip

Don't have high expectations for this cruise if you have cruised previously. This is a very basic Cruise with no extras.

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

3 out of 5

Key West, Florida

1 out of 5

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

3 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

3 out of 5
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1 Comment

sfcvan    7 years ago

You can't blame the bad weather on the cruise line. Plus it's hard to believe that you couldn't find much entertainment on a Carnival Cruise line, but I wasn't there so I will have to take your word. I will say I just got off the Carnival Dream last weekend and the smoke in the Casino was terrible. I'm a heavy casino goer and do to the smoke I only went there twice. It was a free cruise because of my casino play from a previous cruise. If they don't fix the smoke, I believe they will loose customers.

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