Carnival Freedom Review

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Carnival Freedom - Western Mediterranean

Review for the Western Mediterranean Cruise on Carnival Freedom
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KNITWITS
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Mar 2007

DH and I first of all want to thank Blackegg for starting this thread and for all the helpful tips before we sailed on March 14th. Made the last week of waiting so exciting that it sped by quickly and helped with our planning as well. Thanks also to Bekah for keeping everyone updated LIVE and both her and ehogan for their great review. I will try not to go over too many of the same pointers they gave you.

EMBARKATION DAY: Our flight went smoothly on Lufthansa from SF to Frankfurt, flight attendants were very friendly and helpful, the food was actually decent and they even offer wine and beer free (even in economy class). 10 hours is an awful long time to be seated even with a few stretches, but the aisles aren't very wide and I hated climbing over DH and a stranger to go wander. Even though we only had a 1 hour layover before our flight to Rome everything went well and it was soooo exciting to see the Swiss Alps out the window on our way! I'd been too excited to sleep during our long flight but surprisingly fell asleep on the short 2 hour flight to Rome. The airport: Hallelujah- all our luggage made it even with the short transfer time!!!! Our shuttle company was waiting with a sign with our name, but unfortunately the driver wasn't there yet so we had a 20 minute wait. (Airport Shuttle.com-40 Euro each for 4 people and luggage including tip). Took about 1 hour to get to the port, but like Bekah we ran into the roadblocks for the bike race. The driver didn't know an alternate route and we spent about another hour driving in circles with bad directions from the officers manning the detours. We could see the ship in the distance, but couldn't get to her! Just about the time we were tempted to walk the driver got good directions and we were there!! Up close the ship is so impressive, much better than looking at her pictures. We like to carry our own luggage onboard because we have had all the problems with luggage you can imagine-lost, damaged, dropped in the sea, misplaced for a few days etc. so we try to put everything into two roller bags each and that works well for us.

Check in- We were there about 3pm and there was hardly any line at all and we just went right on through. As Bekah mentioned they do take your passports and give you a receipt so they can process everyone for Turkey at the same time.

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