One word to describe this vacation.....AWESOME! Our average age was early 30's. Our previous cruise experience was on the Crown Princess (also great!) so I use that as comparison in some of this review. I would recommend and sail on both again!

The day before the cruise we stayed at the Courtyard Marriott in Cocoa Beach using the fly, snooze, cruise package. It was great and because it was a few miles from the port so there wasn't a herd of cruisers in the morning waiting for a shuttle. Travel Lynx was the shuttle provider and we had great service. After the last couple in our group arrived at the hotel, the shuttle driver brought us all to the port area for dinner on his way back to the airport. It saved us some taxi fare. We had a great start to our vacation with dinner and drinks at FishLips.

Embarkation: Embarkation was a breeze on the Freedom. We didn't have to wait in long lines and got on the ship pretty early, around noon. Read more