We were actually surprised by how spacious our cabin was on the Carnival Freedom.
We expected to be squished into a tiny room, but it was actually spacious. There was plenty of space for us and our luggage. They are very well designed, so we easily found a home for everything and it was nice to be fully unpacked for 8 nights.
Our room
We stayed in an outside cabin on our Caribbean cruise. We had booked the cheapest class of outside cabin – in this class you are guaranteed an outside cabin, but you have no say of which one. This is the second time we have done this and it has worked out well. Last time, we were lucky enough to be upgraded to a balcony. This time we weren’t that lucky, but we did get a great outside cabin that would have cost a fair bit more than what we paid. It was on deck one, but this was fine with us. I don’t actually understand why higher decks are seen as preferable as I find it far less rocky on the lower ones.
Our cabin on the Carnival Freedom had a queen size bed, a single bed, and an upper bunk bed in the ceiling which could be pulled down in the evenings. The single bed is along a wall like a couch. We didn’t use the upper bunk as Z slept in his travel cot. There was plenty of floor space for this, and we would stuff it under the beds when we weren’t using it. There is also a functional bathroom, lots of cupboard space, a TV and a fridge.
The TV was useless for the first part of the cruise. Apart from some channels about Carnival cruises, shore excursions etc, they had three movie channels which play the same movies every day and look really dodgy – like they are cheap Chinese knocks offs. The only kids one was the chipmunks. Lucky we have an iPad for when we have to try to force S to have some down time.