Carnival Freedom is a Conquest-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line, and the final Conquest-class vessel to enter service. Built by Fincantieri at its Marghera shipyard in Venice, Italy, she was floated out on April 28, 2006, delivered to Carnival on February 28, 2007, and formally named in Venice by American model, actress, author and entrepreneur Kathy Ireland on March 4, 2007.

Areas of operation

Carnival Freedom initially sailed from her home port in Civitavecchia near Rome on Mediterranean cruises until Fall of 2007 when she sailed the Caribbean Sea from the Port of Miami. In the Summer of 2008 she returned to Europe and sailed in the Mediterranean again. In the Fall of 2008 she again sailed the Caribbean but from Fort Lauderdale out of Port Everglades until February 2015 when she changed her home port to Galveston, Texas.

Refits

Carnival Freedom entered a three-week routine drydock in Freeport, Bahamas on March 30, 2014 for refurbishment and completed another dry dock in March 2019.