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Item: Carnival Horizon
Rating: 3.7
Author: mmiret

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

mmiret

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

3.7 out of 5

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8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 24, 2019

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: GUAR

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

The ship was ugly but clean, no wow factor. Food unless you pay for it is bland. Entertainment was okay but also no wow factor. Great Cruise Director. Pools wayyyyy to small. Kid section much better than adults.The Elevators where a failure computer operated means slowwwwwww. The dinning room experience was caotic not smooth . Nothing worse than to have to wait to sit to dine and also to have to make a reservation on your phone. We cruise to get away from our phones. Overall never Carnival again.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Fast orderly

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Food bland, unless you pay for the restaurants. Drinks you better buy the package unless you like koolade and tea

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

They where okay, they tried hard. People started getting bored. They need more activity

Entertainment

3 out of 5

They tried hard, but they need more stage presence. More decorating the stage.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Room Steward excellent , other personnel as well

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

Ship is overal bland, ugly in some areas. No pizazz no glamour no wow factor. Very cheaply done. Elevators horrible.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Cabin was great for two people

Ship tip

Not a classy Boat, not a calm boat. Its the same demographic of people. Not a blend of different type of people

Thumbs up

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

3 out of 5

Boring Island, beach full of rocks

Thumbs Up 2

La Romana, Dominican Republic

5 out of 5

Didnt know this should have been on my bucket list, glad I bumped into it . Spectacular

Thumbs Up 2

Willemstad, Curacao

2 out of 5

Dirty Island

Thumbs Up 0

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

Will be back, One of the cleanest Island I have ever seen. Water out of this world. Beautiful

Thumbs Up 14

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Captain was the best. He belongs in a much better ship

3 Comments

jgarciaquinones 5 years ago

I just got disembarked today...and this is exactly how I feel. This was my second time trying Carnival and since I didn't like it the first time .I gave it a second try with a newer ship...humm my mistake. I love cruising but not with Carnival

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trisha 5 years ago

Maybe you should have done late or early dinning , instead of Any Time Dinning. you just go at your dinning time and don’t have to wait for a table or request a dinning time.

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twhittingham 5 years ago

Liked your comment about LaRomana, can you share what you did? We will be there in a few weeks and are looking for something to do.

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