Carnival Freedom Review

Great and relaxing cruise, worth the money.

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Freedom
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rn1234
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Jul 2010
Cabin: Interior
Traveled with children

Flew in to Ft Lauderdale 4 days before the cruise and visited Orlando. Rented a car drove to Orlando, did the Disney World gig, then drove back to Ft. Lauderdale on Sunday July 25 to board the Freedom. We left Orlando around 8 am and got to Ft Lauderdale around 11:30 with stops in between. DH dropped us off at the pier with the luggage and drove back to the airport to return the rental car (not far a few miles)and took a taxi to the port. We embarked and was on board the ship by 1:30 p.m. in time to go to our cabin, freshen up a bit, then went up to the Lido deck to eat lunch. Embarkation took about 30-45 minutes so it wasn't so bad. Muster drill was the usual can-we-just-skip-this-part part. They had to do it in English, French and Spanish, so you do the math on how long it took....

Cabin - as always clean and comfortable. Cabin is cleaned twice a day. We go to breakfast and when we come back, viola cabin has been cleaned. We go to our 6 pm early dining, when we come back, viola cabin is clean again. Fresh towels and freshly made bed 2x a day for 6 days really spoils you. Our cabin steward Michael was great, he says hi and good morning or good evening when we see him (most of the time you think a ghost does the cleaning because we don't see him too often.) We asked him if we can have ice one time, the whole six days our ice bucket was filled. We brought our own soda cans(about 2 dozen). I placed it in one of our extra carry-on luggage by itself. I was worried Carnival were going to say no you can only bring so much, but it went through. There was a fridge in the cabin, I asked the steward to open it and we placed our soda's inside. Didn't touch the rest inside the fridge though. Hey what can I say, we're on a budget. Gotta save some for the bar drinks and the pictures you just can't say no to.

Dining - we're not a picky eater, so most of the food specially in the dining room was great. Try the duck, I was surprised how tasty it was. The usual small lobster one night, spareribs was good, pork loin and prime rib nothing to write home about. Black Forrest cake and Amaretto cake was superb. Melting chocolate cake not as good as before (don't know why). Our head waitress Cristina from Romania and her assistant Carl from Honduras was great. Lido deck buffet was the usual long line. Not as bad as some people say, you're not going to die of starvation the way some people were describing the line. Expect it because it's the height of summer and with 3600 people on board...come on you will go through the line. They had omelet station in the morning, cook to order mongolian, fish and chips, tandoor, and of course the 24 hour pizza. We weren't able to try the sandwich shop, but it looked good.

Cabin Review

Interior

Lots of closet space and bathroom accessories space. Bed very comfortable. No electrical outlet in the bathroom, only one electrical outlet in the cabin. Had blow dryer available, but you can only use it while sitting/standing in front of the mirror in the room, you can't unplug it and use it somewhere else.

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