Extremely Disappointed in cruise

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 62

Overall rating:

2.4 out of 5
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Carnival Horizon

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 22, 2020

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 10220

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Extremely disappointed on this cruise Will never go though carnival again Disappearing most of the food, services, and onboard activities Extremely unorganized at ports to get off ship

Embarkation

2 out of 5
Unorganized for getting people on

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
The main dining room for dinner was very good. The specialty dining was awful and long waits Seafood station overpriced and very long wait

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
They did not have enough pool chairs for everyone. We actually molasses the green eggs and ham event because I had to get up a 7 am to get chairs for my family and then couldn’t leave them Pools were small and way to few Of them for all the people on board

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Good. Evening shows Were well done

Children's Programs

My daughter choice not to participate

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
Room steward was great Dining night staff main dining great Rest are service was not great

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Hated elevators Some Cabin halls got smelly The marketplace was smelly at night

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Balcony was very nice. Since front of shop don’t recommend for people who get sea sick. Waters were very rough and you could feel it more in front of ship

Ship tip

I personally after my experience on this shop will never use carnival again. I spent a lot of money for my family to have am amazing experience. Due to over crowding and not enough pools and chairs and 3 days at sea it was not relaxing at all

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

3 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

2 out of 5
Beach nice but over crowded. The tour was ok but grand Turk was pretty dumpy wiped out by hurricanes. Need more options to get to Caicos islands by smaller boats

La Romana, Dominican Republic

2 out of 5
Good place awful time getting off ship

Willemstad, Curacao Did not visit port

I did actually do an excursion but not through carnival and it was the best one

Oranjestad, Aruba

2 out of 5
Good place awful timing getting off ship

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Very slow. Also getting off at the miscellaneous ports was so unorganized. Needs a better system then everyone trying to get down stairs. Lots of miscommunication
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9 Comments

hubiedubie    4 years ago

Research, its too bad you didn't enjoy

RickyBobbie    4 years ago

Sorry to hear you will not be cruising Carnival again. We enjoy Carnival and will continue to cruise in them.

Blondy    4 years ago

You thought the room steward was great but you only gave him a couple of stars. What’s with that? And second you’re on a cruise vacation relax if this is an honest person not a make up story complain complain complain! Enjoy why sweat the small stuff.

Blondy    4 years ago

Wow you thought the room still it was great but you only gave him what three stars was it to. Wow you’re on vacation and man you pick on almost everything wow.

BronxBoricua    4 years ago

Havana Cabins cost more, but worth every penny. If it’s on a big ship I won’t book unless Havana Cabin available.

cruisebabe72    4 years ago

This is why I booked Havana area this month. We get our own pools!

Cruiserike0322    4 years ago

Sorry for your disappointment

CruzeFan    4 years ago

There are never enough chairs at the pool or pools large enough for everyone on any cruise ship, not just Carnival. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to build a pool large enough for several thousand people on a cruise ship.

LizP46676677    4 years ago

I agree with the pools - 2 small pools for such a large ship was the one thing I didn't like.

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