I sailed on the Carnival Freedom - and the crew totally made my husband and I's first cruise a blast. I found the crew to be very energetic and helpful, even on my first night when I got pretty tipsy and almost fell on three waiter's at the Chic dining room. The best place for drinks and the best bartender hands down was Branco from the bar Noveau, he was very funny and energetic.

The set up of Carnival Freedom was somewhat confusing, and everytime you would get off the elevator you would see a lot of people looking around looking just as confused as you were.

The food I though was pretty good espcially in the Chic dining room, the lunch at the buffet was always really good as well, I really liked how every lunch they would have a different themed lunch like (Southwestern, American, etc), and may different options. I wasn't however very impressed by breakfast, the breakfast always tasted stale, or old to me, and the eggs were not real eggs. But overall good food. Read more