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Carnival Freedom Cruise Review

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 11
Helpful Votes: 302

Overall rating:

4.3 out of 5
Carnival Freedom

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 12, 2022

Ship: Carnival Freedom

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 7438

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Fun birthday cruise 🚢 a cruise is what you make it!

Embarkation

5 out of 5
It was good and going along great till they saw my negative antigen test. The dr. hand wrote and circled that I was negative. Nope. New rule you have to have the whole report printed out. It has to be printed out the results. But they let me on, so it was only a 10 minute delay. We were on the ship by noon.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
As you know, i have celiac disease, so I need gluten free food. The buffet does not have a lot of choices - very limited. I went to the omelette station and had eggs made for me and then had fruit for breakfast. Lunch was worse-salad and fruit. We had dinner in the MDR every night and they made me gluten free dinners. The dinner the first night was so good and then the rest of the time it was just ok. I’ve had better food on other carnival ships.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Trivia, trivia, trivia. I’m not into it at all. They have bingo, but I did not play this trip.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
They have comedy shows, they have regular shows at 7:30 and 9:30pm. We went to the shows. The 88 Keys show was my favorite. The have 4 different deck parties-sail away deck party, 80’s glow deck party, another regular deck party, and on the last night they have the white deck party. This ship has a separate disco place that they have dancing at at midnight.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Always great service. Edi our room steward was fantastic.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
This ship is 15 years old. I like the layout of it, but the atrium and public area decor is ugly. It’s a clean ship, just ugly.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Inside room was great. Plenty of closet space and we had a refrigerator too.

Ship tip

The internet was very sketchy and did not work for me, but did work for my friend. The chat feature in the app sometimes went out and did not work.

Ports of call

Grand Turk Island

4 out of 5
We took a tour around the island. Small island. Then shopped in port and did a little beach time.

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5
I love Aruba 🇦🇼 we shopped in the morning and I found the cutest jacket, magnet, T-shirt. Then we went to the beach, which was really, really windy. The water was cold there too, but the beautiful blue!!

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

5 out of 5
My favorite private island!! It’s winter so the water was cold, but it was warm out. Beautiful day. I really love this beach.

Miami, Florida

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
So fast. We were off the ship and in the transfer bus by 8:30 am. You must be out of your room by 8:30 and off the ship by 9:30am
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11 Comments

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Appreciate your feedback. Glad you managed to enjoy your cruise in spite of the difficulties in finding food for your health issues.

PiratesWorld    2 years ago

Happy birthday! Thanks for the info

izrgreen    2 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to write a review.

1CruiseGram    2 years ago

Thanks for the review

cruising2004    2 years ago

Happy belated birthday! Thank you for sharing your cruising experience.

Cruisiegal    2 years ago

Thank you for the review!!

javawoody    2 years ago

Appreciate you sharing your experience

srhandler    2 years ago

Thanks for writing this review

natelorip    2 years ago

Thanks for the detailed review. Glad you enjoyed your cruise.

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

CurlyCruiserYAY    2 years ago

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