Great Cruise for the whole family even thought there were 3 deaths!!!!!

Item: Carnival Freedom
Rating: 4.4
Author: coriassoitaly

Carnival Freedom Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

coriassoitaly

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 37

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5

5 Night Western Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 11, 2014

Ship: Carnival Freedom

Cabin type: Oceanview

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

This cruise was awesome, the boat is nice, pool area is nice. I didnt like the salt water slides as it burned my eyes so the kids wore goggles. Jen was the red haired cruise director and was FANTASTIC!!!! You saw her everywhere and the fun activities around the pool were entertaining and fun to participate or just watch. I think my kids emptied out the frozen yogurt machine every day. Guys fries n burgers on the pool deck.... awesome!! The shows were ok, Bingo was expensive, but hey. A young girl passed out in the adult hot tub, my husband had to give her mouth to mouth with another doctors help . The next morning we had an emergency code and we had to wait to get off the ship in Jamaica as she died. While waiting to leave the port of Jamaica another lady had a stroke and died running back to the ship on the pier and she died. It was crazy! Besides the deaths, we loved this ship and would do it again for sure.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Children's Programs

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

Pool deck is a blast!

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Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

3 out of 5

We arrived at the airport early in the morning, one guy had two heart attacks on the plane and it was chaos!! The kids were scared (ages 9,7,5). Once in the airport another huge lady had some sort of fit in the baggage claim and passed out in a pool of blood and urine. She died while EMT tried to revive her. The day at the beach was fun while we waited to board.

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Ocho Rios, Jamaica

4 out of 5

We did resort for the day to Jewel I think? Whatever the one where kids could go. It was ok.... it was under construction when we were there so only one pool open, but it was the one with the swim up bar so it was fun!Kids could eat all day and swim in the calm and VERY warm waters of the ocean. The driver was a bit annoying and tried to take us shopping before he dropped us off at the hotel. Everyone got mad and demanded he took us to the hotel that we paid for for THE DAY!! Instead of 10 hour there, we only got like 5 so the "resort for the day" company did credit me $150 to use next time we booked with them. All in all we really like it there.

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George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5

Wish we went to 7 mile beach but it was raining allllllllllll day. We had a swim with the dolphin and turtle part excursion planned anyway. Although it rained all day we loved this day. The kids loved holding the baby turtles and the dolphin thing was fun although all the kids latched onto us as the baby fish nibble your toes. Picture prices were crazy, but it was so fun! Skipped the beach as it was raining and went back on the boat to enjoy the activities there.

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Pretty sure it was simple......

3 Comments

babyblueyes339 6 years ago

3 deaths one 1 cruise?

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Gheemaster38 6 years ago

WtF? Either you have amazingly terrible timing, or death and tragedy is your best friend.

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DreamCatchers 6 years ago

Newer cpr training is only chest compressions, no mouth to mouth

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