We cruised on the Carnival Freedom. The majority of the cruisers were from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. We had 7 days of country western music on all stages. It felt like a Donald Trump cruise rally. There was no diversity in the entertainment.

We dined with another Black couple from Houston that we met on the cruise. We spent approximately $8000 on the cruise including matching Rolex watches for our anniversary. When it was time to disembark from the ship on the final day of the cruise we were stopped by cruise personnel removed from the disembarkation line and escorted to our luggage and then escorted to Customs where we were questioned by Customs officers regarding watches we purchased on the ship. It seems to me that for the money we spent on the ship Carnival would have cleared our purchases with customs already. Then the Customs officer didn't really have a valid reason for stopping us. He asked for our receipts of which was packed in our luggage, He asked to see the watches we purchased of which we were wearing. He did some piss poor calculation about paying tax that didn't make any sense. Then he said we didn't owe any tax and let us go. Its all good I had the money and will not be on your sorry cruise ship in the future. Meanwhile two days after the cruise the other Black couple that we dined with told us they were also pulled out of the line and given some bogus excuse regarding some charges for pictures.

Message to all black cruisers. Carnival Freedom treats there black customers terrible.