Decent ship - Smooth ride - Good food

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 4
Helpful Votes: 173

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5
Carnival Horizon

6 Night Eastern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 24, 2021

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8395

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

The staff were great, The ride was smooth. Seemed to be the nickel and diming cruise... $3 for popcorn at the dive in, $6 - $13 to see an IMAX show, $4 - $6 to stream a current movie on TV, etc., etc.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Sailed right on and rooms were ready early

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Main dining wait staff were excellent and food was very good - Buffets pretty much had the same dinner menu as the dining rooms.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Typical trivia etc. Pools and hot tubs were constantly full even with less than 50% passenger capacity during this sailing.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Shows were pretty good... not the best we ever seen, but good and worth seeing. Comedians were not very good and repeated the same material. Would have liked to see an IMAX show, but wasn't worth $13 to me. Also the TV channel and streaming selection was poor to say the least.

Children's Programs

No children traveling with us

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Great restaurant staff and room steward.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Good décor for Carnival. Pools and hot tubs were lacking. Biggest issue is that they have too many smoking areas.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Typical Balcony room. The swing doors on the balcony needs better cushioning. Our neighbor kept letting their doors slam and really got to be annoying.

Ship tip

I would rather have a Balcony room on the port side... there is no smoking on the front port promenade so less likely to get whiffs of smoke. also it seemed that it was the better side while in port.

Ports of call

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

4 out of 5
Nice pool, but we had two large ships including ours in this port and we were a little late in getting off the ship and there was not an empty lounge chair to be found.

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

4 out of 5
We love this stop, but the tenders were poorly executed and took awhile to get ashore.

Bimini, Bahamas

1 out of 5
Unless if you book an excursion, it's not worth getting off the ship. There is a small beach within walking distance, but nothing to write home about.

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
We did a back to back cruise and I am rating this down because they had us wait in a lounge while everyone else disembarked. Once done, we had to get off and go down and turn around and get back on
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15 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

byhisgrace    2 years ago

Thanks for your feedback.

AdmiralJAH    2 years ago

Thanks for your review 🦜😎

Curt34    2 years ago

Thanks for the review.

CurlyCruiserYAY    2 years ago

izrgreen    2 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to write a review

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Appreciate your feedback. The $3 popcorn has been talked about in great detail on this app. It’s a new thing and sad it has happened. Sorry you were unaware that the IMAX was additional. However, this information is available on the website. Glad you enjoyed your cruise in spite of the all of these things.

NanMarie    2 years ago

The last cruise we were on was Dec 2019 on Carnival Sunshine and popcorn was free for the dive in movie. Either it depends on the ship or else now they are changing for the popcorn. Glad you had a good time except for a few hiccups.

RetiredRay    2 years ago

The port authorities determine how B2B passengers are treated, not the ship. Some have you stay in the theater until you are cleared, others do like what you did. Thanks for the review.

cruising2004    2 years ago

Thank you for sharing your experience

Darrelljones    2 years ago

The last time that we went to a movie theater it costs us $45 for the movie, popcorn and drinks and that wasn't even for an IMAX movie. That was also three years ago. Also. Buy an IPAD. I buy all of my movies online, download what I want to watch on it, then I can watch what I like when I want to. Also, my books. Since it has it's own phone connection, whenever I'm in port I can pay bills and not have to use the ship wifi. Fir us if we're in a U.S. port or Mexico, it's free. Otherwise it's 10 dollars a day. We also bought the unlimited wifi for the first time in October. Bought it again for next the next cruise too.

KurryandTyler    2 years ago

I don’t see how people can complain about so much when on vacation. Relax and enjoy. AND it’s a back to back cruise! I would do anything to be able to do that, I’ll be a lot more appreciative when I get the chance someday.

purpl    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing.

CruzeFan    2 years ago

Glad you enjoyed most of it. Up charges will be the norm after Covid to make up for the lost revenue.

javawoody    2 years ago

Thanks for your feedback

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