Worst experience ever!

Carnival Freedom Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

2.6 out of 5
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Carnival Freedom

4 Night Bahamas (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 09, 2023

Ship: Carnival Freedom

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 1431

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

The cruise was boring, not fun at all, 2 small little pools, the layout in which the buffet is designed is horrible, lines were so long they went into the walkway and merge with other food lines (the sandwich place or the sushi place), and constantly been bumped into by people walking by! the wait times for dine in dinner were absurdly long, and once we did get seated and the wait times for the food to come were 30/45mins most days. Most The activities on the planner were not activities at all, they were mostly invites to come buy something; “a bracelet, a gold chain, a luxury handbag, a watch, a t-shirt, etc” they activities that were up there like some of the trivia’s we attended didn’t even happen. Why? Because no one hosted it, no one showed up, no announcements, just wasted time! And this happened on multiple trivia’s, I don’t understand how music being played and a bar or lobby is considered an activity!? It shouldn’t even be on the planner as this should be considered background music like or passing music, if people want to stop by and enjoy the music fine, but don’t add it on the planner as an activity. I feel like you guys didn’t know what to do and just put in some fillers on the planner…this ship needs to be retired! If I could do it all over again I would not spend my money with carnival! When someone takes time off the everyday lives for vacation and away from their families, we except a certain type of type of service. And my cousin Jason nor myself received this expectation at all…I was really looking forward to visiting princess cays and Freeport was a disaster! We waited almost an hour for a taxi to the local beach. Just to be told we can only stay at the beach for 45mins to an hour because that’s the way the tour is set up. I was over this trip on the 2nd day! I saw soooo many people complaining to guess services and their own bad experiences, it actually felt good to know I wasn’t the only one! for this to be my first vacation with carnival I will never spend my money with carnival again, Royal Caribbean from here on out!

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

Hire a new cruise director

Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

2 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

3 out of 5

Princess Cays (Cruise Line Private Island) Did not visit port

Because the ship let us get off!

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
I got off that damn boat! Thank goodness!
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