Caribbean Cruise on the Horizon

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 9

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Horizon

8 Night Eastern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 03, 2018

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 2268

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

This is a great cruise for many reasons including: the food, the new fancy ship, the service staff, the entertainment and the photo ops. You will be disappointed with the following: the 2 small crowded pools, the short amount of time you have at each destination, the timing of each destination (for the 2 best stops you will be getting off very early in morning), the Puerto Rico destination, and the ship elevators! In the DR you have to travel 20-30 minutes to get to a beach with takes an hour away from your already too short time on the island...otherwise you will only be at a pool area. Just take a taxi...much cheaper than an excursion. No excursion needed in Turks. Stay on the boat in Puerto Rico!

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
The 2 small pools are the reason not giving 5 stars.

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Best service ever and staff is so happy and friendly!

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Elevators were really annoying. Very clean ship and fancy!

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Only has 2 small pools...very crowded. Might be worth it to pay more to be apart of the “Havana” pool area (private for those people).

Ports of call

New York, New York

5 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

1 out of 5
Amazing beach (but crowded). Only problem is the time there is only 7am to 2pm!!! Too short and too early!!!

San Juan, Puerto Rico

2 out of 5
You’re in the city...no beaches in sight. A bus tour for 1 hour cost a famyof 4 $100 and there wasn’t much to see!

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

5 out of 5
This gets 5 stars bc we made the choice to take a taxi to a beach resort. Otherwise the destination would only be a large pool area with zip lining and shopping (that would’ve only gotten 3stars bc I wouldn’t want to be on a tropical island in a pool.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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3 Comments

jasonwhite    6 years ago

Sounds like this was your first cruise. That's what cruises are like. Hope you had a great time anyway!

Autobot    6 years ago

Skip puerto rico, skip the hurricane victims???

lucretia    6 years ago

Get off the ship early and take a tour and return to swim in the pool on the ship

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