Bad cruise for extended reasons
Freedom of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western
7 Night Western Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)
Sail date: December 07, 2014
Ship: Freedom of the Seas
Cabin type: Oceanview
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 9 years ago
Review summary
Mechanical problems required the ship to steam at maximum of 17 knots which resulted in it being late to every port on the itinerary. Instead of arriving at 7 or 7:30am it arrived at 10am. As a result time ashore was cut short requiring early reboarding. In addition, we missed the last port of call entirely due to a reported medical emergency. Ship's interior needs updating & was lacking in Christmas decorations compared to sailing on it at this time last year. Food bar around pool had been removed making it inconvenient to get food out of Windjammer. Of all of our previous bookings with RCCL this was the most disappointing cruise we have had. We are disturbed at the casual indifference shown by RCCL in failing to inform us of the ship's deficiencies prior to sailing. The week before this ship barely made it into Nassau & had insufficient repairs performed by underwater divers. Had we known about all these mechanical problems we would have made different arrangements.
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This ship will be going into dry dock for refurbishing as well it should.