Carnival panama canal cruise (new locks)

Carnival Freedom Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 37
Helpful Votes: 565

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
Carnival Freedom

14 Night Panama Canal Carnival Journeys (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 27, 2018

Ship: Carnival Freedom

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

No more 14 day cruise for us...like younger people around us. Gets boring on sea days

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
They sail out of Texas, most passengers are Texans, they need to learn how to cook a chicken fried steak. Their version was a thin slice of meat with milk on it, ugh!!!

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
This was an "old folks cruise" Activities geared to younger set. Most were in bed around 7. We went to comedy show every night as that is most they offer in ways of good shows. Playlist only have 3 shows and one was cancelled due to technical difficulties

Entertainment

2 out of 5
Trivia played all the time, playlist had 3 shows one was cancelled due to computer problems. Cruise director was from England and she was OUTSTANDING!!! Lip sync was terrible, fun squad were not around much, again the cruise director was outstanding, she was around all the time

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Cabin steward was great, dining room waiters outstanding, photo staff outstanding

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Don't go on a 14 day cruise as all there is "old people", lots of walkers and scooters bumping into you, elevators are plugged, no place to sit as the promonade looks like a sleeping deck, depressing.

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

Montego Bay, Jamaica

5 out of 5
Appleton farms was excellent, great jerked chicken dinner and lots of rum tasting

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5
walking excursion, pretty port

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
Pretty bridge

Cartagena, Colombia

5 out of 5
Loved the wild birds

Panama Canal (Cruise Into Canal)

5 out of 5
The main reason we took this cruise, to see the new locks work

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica Did not visit port

been there done that

Cozumel, Mexico Did not visit port

boring..been there 14 times

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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4 Comments

sassi    6 years ago

I totally agree I did a 7-Day on freedom nothing to do bean bag toss nightlife no good food okay I'm giving Carnival another try on Liberty I hope it will be fun

tkaye    6 years ago

I can't even imagine being bored on a ship. Planning the Panama Canal Journeys cruise for 2020. Guess I will know for sure then. 😊

graham123    6 years ago

😎😎

mommacookie    6 years ago

We are bringing games to play with family

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