Our verdict?

We continue to just love cruising. We loved both the shore and sea days. We loved the Carnival Freedom, all the food, our room, the entertainment, everything. We especially enjoyed doing our own thing on shore days. We usually did shore excursions on our previous Caribbean cruises, and we actually found this less enjoyable than exploring by ourselves.


The Carnival Freedom in Antigua


We loved it so much that we came very close to cutting back our Deep South road trip so that we could do another cruise while we were in the US. It was very tempting. I just wish that cruises were such good value in Australia, so we could do far more of them. I have no doubt we will do another Caribbean cruise next time we are in the US.


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