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Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 51

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
Carnival Horizon

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 07, 2020

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8319

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Although the Corona was going crazy at home, we still had an awesome time. The crew did it’s best at sanitizing and getting people to wash their hands and using sanitizer everywhere you went. I would definitely recommend this cruise.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Everything went very easy, no waiting involved.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
We mostly ate in the main dinning room for dinner. I would rate the food between a 3/4. Seemed like a bunch of weird foods and a lot of the same stuff. Best night of course was the at sea nights for Elegant night. Lobster, Prime Rib and Filet Mignon. One day there was nothing on the menu that looked good to me so I ordered a sushi boat from the sushi restaurant. The sushi was very good and I always seen people in that restaurant eating. Days that your at sea, Pigs and Anchor had free lunches that you could eat. That was very yummy as well as the hamburger stand. The buffet is always the same foods and I wasn’t impressed. Pizza stand was ok.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
We did the bean bag toss, ping pong competition, volleyball champs, pool slides, walked the jungle gym and had a blast On the sky ride.

Serenity

5 out of 5

We loved it up there. Nice and quiet with plenty of chairs.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Deal or No Deal - Fun, Bingo -Fun, Lip Sync - Fun, Musical shows we’re good, White out was fun

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Everyone always goes above and beyond. These people hardly make any money and really count on tips. So if they are good, reward them with extra tips.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Everything was good

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Comfort and size of the cabin was good. I didn’t think it was cleaned as well as it could have been. We were on the ship for 8 days and our sheets were never changed. The carpet didn’t look like it was vacuumed much either.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

La Romana, Dominican Republic

2 out of 5
You can get off the ship, there is a few shops at the port. But there is nothing else to do nearby.

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
Very neat port! We swam with the sea turtles which was fun. Then we shopped around the port.

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5
We rented a car and drove around Aruba on our own. Aruba is an awesome island.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Everything went very smooth.

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14 Comments

javawoody    3 years ago

Thanks for the review and sharing your experience

McDcruiser    4 years ago

Hopefully we cruise May 10. Not sure if they will be up and cruising by then 😉.

bethj73761120    4 years ago

Thanks for the review. We are hoping to book the October 3rd sailing.

wangfam112    4 years ago

It sounds like you had as much fun as we did when we sailed on her last year. Great review on a great ship. Enjoy your next one.

Tinalee68    4 years ago

Thank you so much for sharing your awesome cruise! How exciting you got to go! We are booked on her August 22, 2020 and are praying we can go! Thank you for sharing it looks awesome!

IAMNALSY    4 years ago

Will sail the Horizon n July

hubiedubie    4 years ago

Glad to hear you had a great time, great review. Will be on in 400 Days

RickyBobbie    4 years ago

Glad you enjoyed your vacation and great review for a great ship.

Loriedarlin1    4 years ago

We go July 25th!

cruisereckoning    4 years ago

Glad you enjoyed.

trevor4us    4 years ago

Great review, really makes me excited about July.... hopefully it still happens!

Darbygirl    4 years ago

Great review!

jordanaire    4 years ago

We sail on Horizon on October 3rd (hopefully)

portofrome    4 years ago

Thanks for your review

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