Carnival Freedom Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Never got my on board credit as promised from booking with you. Went to customer service and still nothing was done.

The port of calls were wonderful and made our trip. We enjoyed the comedians. I've been on a lot of cruises and this one was the worst, from the food, menu selections, entertainment, to the waiter at dinner. We will not be going back on the Carnival Freedom.

It was exciting to introduce my nephew to cruising and a great time was had. He's already looking forward to his next cruise.

I did a solo cruise and enjoyed my sleep and relaxation. I took lots of photos and enjoyed it. I preferred the evening dining and hated the morning main dining. They had French toast and instead of doing them the traditional way, they cut 3/4 of the end of the bread and called it French toast. It was terrible. Then the second time I ate in the main dining for breakfast I ordered and omelette w onions and they cut big circles of onion and covered it w the the omelette. I did not realized I had to tell the chef to chop up my onions. Lesson well learned I went to buffet for breakfast afterwards. I enjoyed the comedy show with the woman comedian. The massage was OK I've had better. The jacuzzi was nice as long as there were no kids in it. There could of been more entertainment for adults and more so a and reggae music. After all we were in the Caribbean why not play Caribbean music. They played 80's music and 70's music the entire cruise which is repetitive and boring after a while.

Quite an experience, overall we had a good trip. Would recommend to others.

Natalie & Todd were great entertainers really got the crowd going. The 2 comedians for comedy were ok one was better than the other by far. Ni Luh was our server she could be more friendly overall. I don't like that she stood over us while eating sometimes and then again when she wanted us to leave felt a little rushed and that drinks were kinda pushed on us to purchase at dinner.

Overall the cruise was okay. 2 of the 3 ports were decent. The food was okay. The cleanliness should be very focused on the food area alot. Too many people not washing their hands before grabbing food.

For our first cruise it was great, can't wait to go on another one in the near future.

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.

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

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.

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.