Carnival Freedom Review

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Loved the Freedom

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Freedom
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csrich
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Nov 2011
Cabin: Aft-View Extended Balcony

My DNW and I were married on 11/11/11 and decided to take our Honeymoon on the Freedom. I had sailed with CCL a couple of times previous but this was my DNW first cruise. We decided to get the Aft Wrap Cabin 8455. the cabin was a little bit small but the deck was huge, had about a 270 degree view of whatever you wanted. The bed that everyone claims is nice was lumpy and kept the two of us on separate sides.

We stayed at the Hyatt Place South had a nice room, but they need to work on their shuttles. More on that later. The shuttle got us there about 10:30 am and we were given Zone 6, my DNW is blind in one eye and low site in the other. We were asked if we wanted a wheelchair, which she declined, as we get around nicely. The staff allowed us to get on board with the others that needed some extra time. Staff on board the ship took the extra time for her, a young Jr hostess (Aileen) from the Chic diningroom was on the Lido Deck directing folks. My DNW had to use the ladies room and Aileen was great, she took her in to the woman's rest room, stayed and they walked her back to me. When ever we saw her she would ask if we needed anything and asked how Dawn was doing. She would help us every night with a nice table, as they had us in the center of the dining room. Dawn doesn't do steps well, so she put us on the lower area, usually next to a window an a table for 2. The dining room also had large print menus for her and large print Fun times that were delivered to the rom, almost everynight, which were printed on 11x17 paper.

We had anytime dining and on the first night, we had to wait for only a few minutes, the Maitre D was fabulous with us for the entire cruise. Our Waiters for the first night were Noel, Basil and Radojka who did a decent job helping us with our dinner service, but appeared overzelous during service. They knew the menu and would suggest different things. We turned in early and missed the show, as we am normally up at 0500 and took us a few days to get use to the new late night hours. LOL

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Aft-View Extended Balcony

Cabin 8M

We had cabin 8455 which was an aft extended wrap. Nothing like what people have written. there is NO way for people to see your balcony from the Lido deck, the view from the balcony was great. Loved being able to watch things from the aft veiw and a side view. Room was small and the bed lumpy, the steward was great. Very intentive, but couldn't fix the bed. Ample closet space. I would bring a power strip and plug the frin in to it. Came in handy when you wanted to charge the cameras and the steward didnt know.

The safe had to be unlocked once but otherwise no issues. I would also suggest getting aft dining in the Chic resturant, we had forward LOL

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