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Freedom of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 42

Overall rating:

3.8 out of 5
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Freedom of the Seas

7 Night Southern Caribbean (San Juan Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 04, 2019

Ship: Freedom of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8612

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

The cruise in itself was beautiful. The stops were beautiful. We had a few issues with how security treated us when we came back on board after our excursions. And we also had some issues with how one of the staff members in the photos department was treating us. This was our first cruise and our Honeymoon so we expected it to be a little nicer. Overall the other staff was very nice just not security. They asked my husband what he had in his pocket and he said chap stick for his lips. They asked him to remove it and he did . The security guard took it from him mind you with no gloves on and proceeded to open it and look inside and then handed it back to my husband. Of course my husband had to throw it away. That was unacceptable and the cruise line didn’t do anything about it.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
It was very smooth with the Key

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
The main Dining room was great and the Specialty restaurants were really good I did not like the Windjammer at all and the staff was very rude in the Windjammer.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Rock climbing was magnificent, the fitness center was great

Entertainment

5 out of 5
The performers were excellent and the shows were magnificent I especially enjoyed the live singing reggae band they were the best.

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
The staff that we had serving us in the Dining room and in our room were great. The staff in the photo area and security were not so nice and they were very rude

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
They were clean but the hallway smelled like wet carpet and mold.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The size was very comfortable and our person Mr. Ida was excellent at keeping our room clean and making sure we had what we needed.

Ship tip

To pack your patience because you will need it.

Ports of call

San Juan, Puerto Rico Did not visit port

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

2 out of 5
Yes we did an excursion Maho Beach but didn’t find out until we got there that there was no beach and that it was just a lot of sand and that people had to sit on rocks to try and enjoy the water.

Basseterre, St. Kitts

3 out of 5

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5
Yes we did Frye Beach excellent

Castries, St. Lucia

2 out of 5
Yes we did the Pistons. This excursion wasn’t good because they took us to this bay were the locals try to sell you stuff off of their boats. It wasn’t a safe environment because there were people make obscene comments to us asking if we wanted to purchase drugs and because some of the tourists didn’t know what they were saying they didn’t react. But I knew and understood clearly. It really wasn’t a safe environment and we were not warned before hand about the tour before it was purchased.

Bridgetown, Barbados

5 out of 5
Yes we toured the town with a taxi driver. It was beautiful and we got to experience Barbados post Carnival

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
We purchased The Key so it was very smooth
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1 Comment

wgammon1    4 years ago

Glad you had a good cruise. Thanks for the great review.

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