Carnival Freedom Cruise Reviews - Reviews

This was my 7th cruise and I have to admit my most eventful. The rough weather surely something we cannot control but the fact remains it was of concern that the onboard hoses were not able to reach the fire in the tail of the ship. Thankfully the fast thinking of the captain to drive the ship into a rainstorm to help extinguish the flames worked out positively.

We made the best of a fiery situation. It wasn’t even raining when the fire originally began. The staff was amazing. The food was great.

I will not be cruising again this experience has me very afraid. I will not be cruising with any Carnival ships!ever.

The boat itself was good and the service was great, but the ports were very touristy and didn't feel like we were in other countries at all. Way too commercialized with nothing to do at Grand Turk.

Overall a fun experience with lots of activities!

Never again with Carnival. The two ports we stopped on weren't very impressive. The service people were great, but not enough to make up for the poor food and guest experience and lack of any medical team. All they said was they couldn't do any diagnostics because of no tools, and offered to sell me over the counter remedies that I already had. Due to the internet for my daughter not working properly we were billed over $120 by AT&T for messaging even though it said we were on the Carnival WiFi.

Had a wonderful time cruising. Definitely will do it again. Lots of fun

Weather didn’t cooperated, only 1 sun day out of 5. Not cruise line fault, obviously. Need port other than Amber Cove with beach close to pier. Steakhouse was a waste of my money. So disappointed as I scheduled it to celebrate my friends’ birthdays.

The ship was OK. The Mongolian grill closed too soon. Not having bacon for breakfast daily was insulting. The singles mixer was a flop. Not many activities started on time. Attire rules when wearing swimwear were not enforced.

Once we boarded Carnival Cruise Line Freedom there was no direction as far as being expected to go to a "Muster Point" (This was our first cruise with Carnival). When we finally figured out why people were all over the place we attended our muster assuming further instructions. We only found out about rooms being ready a few hours later from random conversations. We followed people to the main deck, some went to have lunch and others went to the bar. We were not advised that we could use our boarding passes for drinks until we got to our rooms. Assuming our boarding passes would work we tried to get a bottle of champagne per our purchased bottle package. None of the barkeep or deck managers knew what we were talking about. It took 4hours to make contact with a gentleman who was willing to assist in finding out what package we were talking about to then getting a bottle as purchased.5 hours later he came back with drink coupons as purchased, and we still spent a good 40minutes trying to prove we purchased it and that it was a packed offered by carnival. Just before dinner we finally were given our purchased "coupons". We took a coupon to the bar to redeem only to be stared at as if we were crazy. Long story short we got a bottle and we just let that be that not to start our cruise off with any more aggravation. We were able to access our room on time, welcomed by the strong scent of cigarettes. The smell came from the dresser, where we found pajamas and underwear from another guest who was a smoker. It took a lot at this point not to completely lose our cool. Thanks to our travel agents and her kind gesture with the in-room dessert, wine, and bubbly. We opened the fridge to cool our wine to find, 3 cartons of expired milk (may/2024) 3 cans of soda, rotten cheese, and a bottle of Sangria. The rest of our trip we spent every single day, multiple times a day, arguing and debating and convincing employees at the bar and restaurants to redeem our purchased bottles of bubbly. Each experience took anywhere from standing in line to get service to service rendered an hour to multiple hours. It was a mess, the staff had no clue about our purchased package and would not serve us. After the second day, the staff would lie and say they didn't have any on hand and direct us to the casino bar. We would lose our seats constantly, people started getting annoyed when we would come to the bar and treat us poorly. We traveled with a large group of people (Over 300) These acquaintances started getting frustrated on our behalf to see the constant struggle. It even became a joke. If it wasn't for the cruise to catch up with members of our club we would have stayed in the Bahamas and flown home. The dining at night was awful, the food would be cold, overcooked, and underwhelming. We would have to educate the staff on the "New Cruise Package" we would have to wait and wait just to have a nice glass of champagne with a "nice" dinner. It was frustrating, exhausting, and infuriating. The entertainment was a nice distraction. The staff that helped us were super apologetic, The breakfast spread with good as far as continental options. We are only cruising with carnival again because of our yearly club cruise, we would not ever recommend carnival freedom to anyone. We truly have low expectations for the Carnival Horizon, We won't be cruising in 2025 with the expectation of anything grand. We look forward to seeing our club members and getting off at the different ports.

Rekindled a love and spent time with my childhood friend 🧡.

Good, would have liked to have my twin beds for sure.

Weather was horrible but the food, activities and friendliness of the crew made the trip more bearable. Our room was fabulous and the cleanliness of the ship was impeccable.

Group of 13. We had a great time, there were just some things that could be improved on and seems to have been lacking compared to our other cruise experiences. Mostly, it was about the food and entertainment. Positive things were Camp Ocean, activities available, and the personnel.

Disappointed and will try not to sail with Carnival again- no rewards for being a loyal cruiser, less options for food and entertainment, one of us got food poisoning and three more have tested positive for COVID since we arrived

in the future, we will probably never take a cruise on this ship again.

Overall the cruise was nice and fun. I would have liked more but got what I got. I would definitely cruise with them again.

My cruise experience was not the best ... as it was my honeymoon as well and it left me with a bad taste in my mouth . Now getting on the ship was very smooth ,but we didn't get our luggage until after 3pm ,which they said was gonna be at 1:30pm then my luggage came and my wheel off of my Brand new luggage was broken . I bought a hard case just for this trip specifically and it was ruined and carnival's remedy was to give me a luggage soft (not hard cased) or wait until I go home with a broken luggage and then file a claim that may take up to 30 days ,and that left me with no choice but to take what they had there because I did not want to take a chance and have any other wheels fall off because of the imbalances. Then I went to clear off balances the night before we docked and the representative was deducting multiple transactions put of my account although I asked her to hold on a minute while I transferred the amount. I said to her that my husband and I would split the bill in half what she did was deduct half from.my account and deduct smaller payments as well and also put the full balance of the bill on my husband's card . When I realized what she did I went to her she said "oh don't worry the amount will be released in the morning." Which my husband and I are still waiting for and we left the cruise on 01/20/2024 . This was not a great experience at all. The shore trips were all fun . We enjoyed those fully!!! I'm not sure if I will book again with carnival but that's left up to how they respond with the email I sent them.

The cruise was a quick getaway for our anniversary.

It was our first cruise may our last, carnival needs to step back and look at them self, herd from a lot of people who have the same opinion as me.