Carnival Horizon Inaugural cruise

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 47

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
Carnival Horizon

13 Night Mediterranean (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 02, 2018

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9386

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Great inaugural cruise. The crew settled in to work together.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Fastest ever.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Dining room great. Some food a little dry or tough but expected when you pull a crew together from several ships and expect perfection. Farenheit 555 delicious and steaks so tender you didn't need a knife. Tepanakki fun and stuffed when we left. Attended the Chefs Table and it was beautifully presented but I couldn't eat all of it.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Lots of activities. Enjoyed the Veterans programs and the Groove for ST. Jude day

Entertainment

4 out of 5
What I attended were nicely done.

Children's Programs

Didn't have children on board

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
All the staff answered all our needs. Very customer oriented.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Everything's good except the noise from the Lido deck above. Marketplace to be exact. Carts rolling back and forth day and night. Then the trash compactor every few minutes. Bring ear plugs to sleep.

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5
Did an outside excursion. Too many political protests blocked streets. Montserrat was good.

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

5 out of 5
Great excursion until a couple took off without telling anyone and an hour spent looking for them. Lunch yummy.

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

4 out of 5
Easter week made for large crowds. Stood in line for an hour and half b4 the guide told us we had to move on. Lunch was good.

Naples, Italy

4 out of 5
No radios received by company for excursion so the guides were hard to hear.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

4 out of 5
Fun but radios would have been good. Too large of groups to hear the guide.

Corfu, Greece

5 out of 5
Beautiful palace. Lunch provided in beautiful mountain restaurant but not very tasty.

Messina, Sicily

4 out of 5
Nice. Radios to listen would have been good. Couldn't hear guide much.

Valletta, Malta

5 out of 5

Cagliari, Sardinia

5 out of 5
Very pretty. Excursion was interesting

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Fast. Only there were no benches outside and many people waited an hour or more for their shuttle or excursions.

Traveler Photos

Our dining room servers.
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3 Comments

Keebel21    6 years ago

Can you please tell me about the Veteran programs? I will be traveling with two Veterans. Thank you.

captainandtennell    6 years ago

I wish I was there..

MarineVet71    6 years ago

Glad you enjoyed yourself!

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