Just returned from an 8-day cruise to Southern Caribbean on Carnival's Freedom - Grand Turk, Dominican Republic, Curacao, Aruba, plus a total of 3 "Sea Days".
Freedom is a nice, clean ship. Very friendly service staff. This is our 4th cruise but the first one with so little interaction with the ship's officers. I have to say I could not tell you one way or the other much about the ship's crew - the officers who sail the ship and manage behind the scenes - we rarely if ever saw them and interaction (if any) was polite but . . .
However, the service staff - the one's you deal with regularly, daily, throughout the cruise were fantastic!