Excellent Caribbean cruise

Carnival Freedom Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 51

Overall rating:

4.7 out of 5
Carnival Freedom

7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 10, 2019

Ship: Carnival Freedom

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 7349

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Overall it was an excellent cruise. Had a few hiccups along the way but worked through them. We feel a cruise or vacation is what you make of it. Take your time and enjoy it

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Took about 20 minutes from checking in to being on the ship. Seemed like no time at all

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Main dining room for dinner was excellent. Main dining room for breakfast was ok and a little slow couple of mornings. Only at at the buffet for breakfast a couple of times, long line for omelet and eggs to order, scrambled eggs on the buffet were runny one morning. Guy’s burgers were excellent. Quick moving line. Sometimes you need to make contact with bartenders when walking up. Otherwise you get overlooked

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Seems as though some of the stage productions aren’t as good as previous time for us

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Room steward Nengah was excellent. Introduced himself when we first went to the room. Main dining room for dinner service was excellent. Some of the bartenders could overlook you when you walked up unless you got their attention

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Ship was very clean and maintained. Sometimes the layout was confusing as you can’t walk from the front to the back to the dining room because the galley is there so you have to go to the 5th floor, go to the back then down to the 3rd floor for the dining room

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Comfort was good, very clean. The only thing we didn’t realize was that this room had upper fold up bunks. So you had to turn sideways and shuffle down the bed to get into bed

Ship tip

Pay attention to your location on the ship to maneuver around. Not all the elevators got to the top or to the bottom floors

Ports of call

Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5
Embarkation port. Galveston has a lot to do if you arrive a day or 2 early

Montego Bay, Jamaica

5 out of 5
It was ok. Went to Negril to the beach and Ricks Café. The employees at Ricks Café weren’t helpful

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
It was ok. Tender port. Did stingray city and turtle sanctuary. Waves were high due to winds

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
Very easy to navigate and get a cab

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
We were docked by 7:30 am and didn’t get out to the curb till 9:30 am. We carried off our luggage so it would be quicker but not the case

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4 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

cruisereckoning    4 years ago

Sounds like a good time.

trvljet    4 years ago

Thanks for the review. Yes, even with some hiccups a crui is really what you make of it.

bobduck1993    4 years ago

So happy that you had such a good time !

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