Freedom of the Seas Cruise Reviews - Reviews

We absolutely loved our cruise. The Freedom of the Seas is beautiful! The weather was great all week.

This was our first time with Royal Caribbean and it will not be our last. Great customer service and cleanliness, which we find important. Loved having a balcony room, we spent a great deal of time sitting on the balcony early in the morning and in the evening.

Overall, my cruise experience was excellent. I would like to be included more recreational activities for seniors.

The cruise was great, the weather was wonderful, wish you were there 🌞

This was our first cruise. I went with my 13 year old daughter. Unfortunately, the first night, we ate in the dining room. She had the Caesar Salad, Steak and Potato and Boston Cream Pie. I was fine, I had a different meal, but three hours later she woke up with food poisoning. I had brought covid tests with me just to be on the safe side, and it wasn't that. I never got sick, just her, with a low grade fever and threw up 11 times. Thought we would be safe by avoiding the buffet but I guess not :(. Because of this, she threw up the whole morning of Coco Cay and we could not visit this port. She was so excited, it was our first cruise and I had purchased the water park tickets(not cheap!!) but we missed out. We missed out on Taste of Royal the next day because she couldn't eat, and they didn't refund me when I canceled. Understandable I guess, but basically everything I had planned went out the window except for Nassau on the last day. The cabin was really outdated, only two plug ins in the whole room, across the room from the bed, which really wasn't a big deal, but if you use your phone as a clock at night just keep in mind you can't charge your phone next to the bed. Fridge stated it was a "cooler" and not a fridge, so any leftover food we were afraid to keep in it, mainly because of the previous sickness lol. I ended up getting ice and a cooler bag, which for the price we paid for a Junior Suite, seems kind of crazy. Arcade had less than half of the games working, so just keep in mind it is small and not much to play there. I feel stupid now, but I actually bought $100 worth of credits so that we could have a great time, but not much was working, and I don't think we went through half of them. Giovanni's was EXCELLENT and one of the best things about the cruise. Now I wish I would have bought the package for the specialty restaurants so that she didn't get sick maybe. Keep in mind, if you have younger teens(she's 13) at certain times it may be hard to go to the pool. They have a kiddie type area for young young kids, and the main pool, and a 16+ pool. When we went to the main pool on the third day, they were having a hot body contest for guys and it really wasn't appropriate for a 13 year old, so we asked the staff if we could go to the quieter 16+ area and got a firm no, so we had to leave and come back later in the afternoon after it had calmed down. I know I may sound like a Debbie Downer and I just hate that we weren't able to do anything on this cruise. I probably wouldn't go on another one based on the thousands of dollars spent to just sit in a room, or maybe would go with some girlfriends. I don't know. Bad experience....

Per my experience, overall, I did not like it and I cant say that I will cruise any again any time soon. They need more variety of activities and more should be included on the cruise with the price you are spending to cruise.

Francisco was fabulous and our room steward was amazing

We had a great time on our cruise. Booking with AJ Magical Vacations made it so convenient and easy. The ship was clean. The food and service was great.

We have sailed before in this ship and we were pleasantly surprised to see that the service, food quality and maintenance have been kept at a high standard.

Overall it was great to get out of the Winter weather for a week. I had an early inbound flight so I was on the cruise ship by 1230 to leave which was nice. Decent size ship great for relaxation. Biggest disappointment was the food, and multiple people complained about it. They also had large areas to wash your hand in front of the buffet area. Staff was standing there encouraging but do rhyme they said constantly, " washy, washy, yummy, yummy" was a bit infantalizing.

Great cruise with friends! Dining room food quality seems to have dropped a bit and the cabins need some updated decor but had a wonderful time nonetheless

The lip on the floor of your cabin bathroom is a trip hazard. My arm is still not healed. See attached photo taken today.

It was a fun relaxing cruise. We got to enjoy the pool and dinner without family and kids.

Too rough to get into Nassau. Ships crew handled the change very well. Main buffet is not great. Food presentation is weak. Other than this, the food is genuinely good.

Everything was amazing! The food and service was excellent! The entertainment and shows were phenomenal with great talent!

This was the first Royal Caribbean Cruise we took. We were very impressed with the ship and with THE KEY system and highly recommend getting it!! The service and quality of food were outstanding. We will definitely sail on Royal Caribbean again.

Cruise was restful and uneventful. The crew was very friendly.

The cruise was great. Very much enjoyed the ship and the amenities.

RC has no control over Mother Nature, so it was great that the Captain was able to get the big boat into dock in NAS. Food was okay. Cabin was okay. Did not like the smoky/stale smoke/perfumed casino I had to walk through. Elevators were messed up sometimes... One time we were in an elevator, needing to go up a few decks, and the elevator would go up a deck, down 2, up 2, down 1, etc. It was a joke (we were all laughing). We finally got out and walked ourselves to where we needed to be as it was quicker. Personally, I thought Coco Cay was too built up. All I needed was the beach and I'd have been a happy person.

This cruise is a shorter one and there were less families which was great. It was more of an upscale crowd. Lots of boomers and married couples. Overall was nice. Pool area was annoying because the music was blaring but overall it was relaxing and the staff were wonderful.