Carnival Freedom Doing Transatlantics Fall 2023

[maryann2]

Looks like Carnival Freedom is sailing  Transatlantic to and from Barcelona Sept/Oct 2023.  Carnival Pride is doing a Transatlantic from Rome Oct.2023. 

Has the Carnival Jubilee from Southampton Oct 2023 been cancelled?

Does anyone know?  Not showing on booking engine.

 

[BlerkOne]

Jubilee is showing sold out.

[BlerkOne]

Freedom has a dry dock scheduled

Dry dock: 10/04/23-10/22/23

 

Maybe to get a new funnel and more?

[leen50]

On 7/29/2022 at 8:06 PM, maryann2 said:

Looks like Carnival Freedom is sailing  Transatlantic to and from Barcelona Sept/Oct 2023.  Carnival Pride is doing a Transatlantic from Rome Oct.2023. 

Has the Carnival Jubilee from Southampton Oct 2023 been cancelled?

Does anyone know?  Not showing on booking engine.

 

Maryann, I so wish we could do this. When we took NCL Star from Miami to Barcelona, Spring of 2018 & Returned on Horizon's Inaugural TA, Barcelona to NYC, there was only 3 days in between. 

If we were a bit younger (about 10 years LOL) & Covid was gone...maybe. Don't think this will happen for us. But, just booked B2B2B Vista Jan. 2024.

[mz-s]

Oh I'd love to be able to go on one of the Freedom's TAs. I love that ship!

[maryann2]

2 hours ago, mz-s said:

Oh I'd love to be able to go on one of the Freedom's TAs. I love that ship!

I did 3 TAs on her back in the day when she was sailing from Rome. 2008 / 2009.

I loved her too.

[Gumbo4Life]

Thanks for the tip, we just booked a TA on the Freedom in Sept '23 and coming back on the Pride.  Looking forward to it!!

[M&A]

On 7/29/2022 at 8:46 PM, BlerkOne said:

Jubilee is showing sold out.

it's showing up on VTG site  balcony and suites available.  Oct 30th 2023  but then "sold out"

Edited August 3, 2022 by M&A

[BlerkOne]

32 minutes ago, M&A said:

it's showing up on VTG site  balcony and suites available.  Oct 30th 2023  but then "sold out"

It will likely bounce around until final payment, then all kinds of cabins will open.

[Retireatsea]

We got a casino offer we couldn’t refuse.  We booked the Freedom 9/21/23 to Barcelona and return on the Freedom on 10/23/23.  This will be an amazing adventure for us as we are both seniors. I’ll be searching for  air b&b in Barcelona and Madrid.  Anyone else doing this? We have no experience with air b&b.  Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated 

Phyllis and Cliff 

[mojitos24]

We got too a Super Casino offer so we just booked this cruise for next year! So excited! This is going to be our cruise(BF and I) where we are going to be a Platinum VIFP. We are 3 guys 37-46yo from Montréal. We have 3 cruises on the Freedom next year 🙂

Edited August 19, 2022 by mojitos24
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[leen50]

4 hours ago, Retireatsea said:

We got a casino offer we couldn’t refuse.  We booked the Freedom 9/21/23 to Barcelona and return on the Freedom on 10/23/23.  This will be an amazing adventure for us as we are both seniors. I’ll be searching for  air b&b in Barcelona and Madrid.  Anyone else doing this? We have no experience with air b&b.  Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated 

Phyllis and Cliff 

On 2 of our TA'S we stayed in Charm Suites apartment hotel. They have 2 buildings around the corner from each other. The office is in the Parallel building and the one we stayed in was on Nou Rambla. We had a 1 bedroom, living room, full equipped kitchen and large bathroom, tiny outdoor space on the top floor. Great location, close to everything but not in a rowdy area - at least the Nou Rambla location.

Of course everything may have changed since the pandemic. 

[Retireatsea]

1 hour ago, leen50 said:

On 2 of our TA'S we stayed in Charm Suites apartment hotel. They have 2 buildings around the corner from each other. The office is in the Parallel building and the one we stayed in was on Nou Rambla. We had a 1 bedroom, living room, full equipped kitchen and large bathroom, tiny outdoor space on the top floor. Great location, close to everything but not in a rowdy area - at least the Nou Rambla location.

Of course everything may have changed since the pandemic. 

 

[Retireatsea]

Thanks leen50.    I definitely be looking into Charm suites

 

[grandmacani]

We’ve changed our April Panama Canal to this transatlantic cruise. We’ve done 2 other transatlantic cruises and love it. The only port we’ve not visited is Valencia. Happy we’re going back to Bermuda 

[leen50]

27 minutes ago, Retireatsea said:

Thanks leen50.    I definitely be looking into Charm suites

 

Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Are you familiar with Barcelona?

[bambam]

On 8/1/2022 at 4:01 PM, mz-s said:

Oh I'd love to be able to go on one of the Freedom's TAs. I love that ship!

We just booked the TA on the Freedom, got the unbelievable casino rates for a balcony (the mandatory tip charge is more than the cabin) on deck 6. My “fear” is Freedom will be gasping for dry dock by that time.  Sigh....

[Bgcruising]

36 minutes ago, bambam said:

We just booked the TA on the Freedom, got the unbelievable casino rates for a balcony (the mandatory tip charge is more than the cabin) on deck 6. My “fear” is Freedom will be gasping for dry dock by that time.  Sigh....

Not too late to cancel...

[mojitos24]

He will come out of the drydock. First cruise with new paint

[13brenda13]

my husband and I are also booked both ways on freedom - from port canaveral to barcelona - 

and back three weeks later - 27 days on a ship - haven't done that yet . . . . 

wonder if the entertainment changes - also - where to store luggage in between - while in europe want to travel light - we have friends on way over so plan on cards etc - they are flying back - we think cruising is better all away around but we shall see - any advice . . . suggestions. . . . 

thanks

 

[Debe7ing]

Wow!  There seems to be many more of us than I would have ever guessed going both ways.  We will be spending 5 days exploring Spain and doing B2B on RCCL to/from Barcelona the other 14 days. Booked the Grand Suite on an awesome casino offer going over, and balcony on the way home since all the suites were already sold out.  Excited!!!!!

 

[mz-s]

On 2/26/2023 at 4:47 PM, 13brenda13 said:

my husband and I are also booked both ways on freedom - from port canaveral to barcelona - 

and back three weeks later - 27 days on a ship - haven't done that yet . . . . 

wonder if the entertainment changes - also - where to store luggage in between - while in europe want to travel light - we have friends on way over so plan on cards etc - they are flying back - we think cruising is better all away around but we shall see - any advice . . . suggestions. . . . 

thanks

 

 

It's very possible they'll use the drydock as an opportunity to change out shows in the main theater, but not a guarantee. The comedians, piano player, etc., will likely be different. It's unclear what else they'll be doing on this drydock, besides repairing the funnel and routine repairs/inspections.

[13brenda13]

thanks - anyone find out if you can store your luggage on ship if you are back to back ?  with three weeks in dry dock?

 

 

[mz-s]

31 minutes ago, 13brenda13 said:

thanks - anyone find out if you can store your luggage on ship if you are back to back ?  with three weeks in dry dock?

 

 

 

That has never been an option before so I doubt it would be an option for this drydock. 

[13brenda13]

Thankyou.