My Mother, Brother, and I recently sailed on the Carnival Freedom for 8 nights to the Southern Caribbean (Grand Turk, Dominican Republic, Curacao, and Aruba). We have been on 1 other Carnival cruise (Glory) 10 years ago which was pretty good, but we were never more disappointed with a ship than we were with this cruise on Carnival Freedom.
We have been through Ft. Lauderdale before, so we knew what to expect at the pier with security. We breezed into the parking garage and through the terminal in about 20 minutes, and we found our cabin with no problem. We were in 8201 with lots of cabinet/drawer space for storage and a nice bathroom.
First...the good points of this ship:
Ample room for storage, nice balcony during the day....but unusable at night because of non-working balcony light. Noise was ok. Good view of the bridge.