I sailed on the Carnival Freedom June 30-July 8th, ports visited were St. Thomas, Antigua, Tortola and Nassau Bahamas. This portion of my review will focus on the Carnival Freedom, the ship itself. This is my third time sailing with Carnival and my 6th cruise, I will focus on the good and the bad as part of my review.

THE SHIP: overall appearance of the ship, the decor was fine, weird and different as all carnival ships are. Maintenance and upkeep were another story, it was visibly worn and in need of some revamping and general maintenance, the carpets everywhere, rooms and common areas are visibly worn and in need of help. There was several areas of rust visible too. The outside of the ship, the balcony's and around the big screen tv, we did see crew "touching up" some of these areas, although not as much maintenance being done as on others ships my family has sailed. Cut backs were evident....in overall upkeep, and especially the food options, and the toiletry basket.

I addressed upkeep, another issue on our sailing was one of the diesel engines stopped working a couple of days before the end of our cruise, I know things like this happen, however the captain did not inform us until next to the last day, after we had a noticeable decrease in speed a couple of days prior...this did cause problems with delays getting to our last port and back to fort lauderdale, they did open the phone lines so people could adjust their travel arrangements. Read more