Overall pretty great

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 96

Overall rating:

4.1 out of 5
Carnival Horizon

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 04, 2019

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Suite

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

I think this is a great cruise and a great ship to take. Even though at times, especially around lunch it was very fussy.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
We were in a suite so it was super easy peasy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
The speciality restaurants were sooooo good, we were very pleased with our food from there. The dinning room was also very good(most of the time) and the lido well....... I think you either have to be a meataterian or someone who likes fresh spinach and fruit, but if you have a diet in between, say pescatarian or especially vegetarian, the options are very limited and not always great.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
The trivia’s were super fun!

Entertainment

5 out of 5
The musicians, pier pressure were super great. Although we saw two other groups too, I can’t remember their names, but they were also great

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Everyone was super friendly and helpful. Our room keeper did keep walking in on us I’m the evenings though.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
The bed wasn’t the most comfortable but our balcony was awesome this time and seemed even bigger than usual. There was enough room for three chairs and two tables which made it excellent for card games!

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

4 out of 5
We didn’t do anything here but the taxi cab drivers and hotel and restaurant staff were all very nice.

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
We did snorkeling here. The water was very sloppy but once you get your head down to the water it was so beautiful

La Romana, Dominican Republic

3 out of 5
The port area here was way way nicer than what I expected. But we didn’t do an excursion here

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
We snorkeled with the turtles here, and oh my heavens it was the coolest thing I’ve ever done!! And the water is sooooooooo beautiful!! This was our favorite port! I wish we would have had more time to explore but I wouldn’t trade the turtle snorkeling for anything

Oranjestad, Aruba

3 out of 5
I hate to just give three stars. Everybody kept saying this was where the magic was, not just locals but visitors too, so I feel like we must have done the wrong thing or seen the wrong areas because there was not any magic here to me. The water is beautiful, yes, but from what I could tell that’s it. But like I said, I feel like we just did the wrong thing here.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Mostly easy. I only had to carry luggage down one flight of stairs so that was good.
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