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Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 20

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Carnival Horizon

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 30, 2022

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 2342

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Fix elevators so that it doesn't assign 15 people to just 1 elevator. The wait was very long. Overall, I'm going to have to think weather I'll use carnival again.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
It was ok

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Very good

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Plenty to do. The chairs were occupied everyday with towels. I never got to swim. I really wanted too

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Fun great. You can tell the male lead singer isn't very good. Dancers need alot of practice

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Our waiter Jose at table 117 was a very hard working person. I feel he was stretched too short.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
Design was fine! There needs to be hand sanitizer at top and bottom of every stairway. Everyone uses them. I only seen one stair rail getting wiped down. Possibly why alot of people on fb as well as ourselves got covid! Fix this asap or we're done with carnival

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Room size was fine. Balcony had paint shavings all over the floor. The room didn't get a full cleaning in the beginning. We had to ask for toilet paper, we were out day 1. Hair in the drawers. I cut my knee and blood got on the bed sheets. I folded the sheets back so blood could be seen. It took 2 more nights of sleeping on them, before they got changed. Our cleaning time was 11am, I slept in the first morning and didn't get room taken care of until day 2. I felt like I was being taught a lesson! So I rushed out of the room each morning.

Ship tip

Bring sanitizer wipes to wipe down your own room. And small refillable hand sanitizer for all areas its not readily available.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5
No excursion.

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5
Great Port. Probably the ship could have left by 7 or 8 pm

Kralendijk, Bonaire

5 out of 5
Another nice port. Ship could have left 1 or 2 hours earlier

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
My favorite! Excursion was awesome. Shopping, food and dars close to ship!

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Once we were off the ship, Carnival didn't care about us anymore. We used carnival bus to get to airport. Only 1 older lady was in charge of busses. The bus drivers were all older and the luggage was too much for them, slowing down busses leaving. Stood in line for 2 hours for busses, the older lady in charge, let people just getting off the ship to board busses ahead of us. It took myself and another lady to confront the lady to tell her we'd been in line for 2 hours, we even stopped people from boarding , pointing out where the line ended. The lady in charged screamed that no one could board until my and other lady boarded first. I also noticed people who had someone taking their luggage for them had priority!!!!! People were mad!!! All these people expected tips and I thought NO! We all paid $20.99 for this mess. Carnival is greedy! We barely made our flight, any other time would not be a problem.r
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15 Comments

Laborde    2 years ago

We cruised on Carnival Horizon from 9-25 to 10-1 of 2022 and we absolutely loved it. However, it is true that the elevators get very packed. We actually got Covid on this trip but since we're vaccinated our symptoms are mild. Still will continue cruising!!!

Laborde    2 years ago

Thank you for your feedback.

jenniw0212    2 years ago

We were on the same cruise and always found deck chairs. We also didn't get covid... not sure how that works... but hey... it worked for us... if the elevators were to much for you, you could simply wait for the next... here's a helpful tip... if you don't know the ship, watch some YouTube videos on how the workings of it go... it helps alot

leog    2 years ago

You should stay inside till the world is safe again. Hopefully the captain sees this and adjusts the port schedule accordingly.

browns1    2 years ago

You have to be smarter than the elevator or you could read the instructions.

jc5    2 years ago

Is this review a joke? Seriously, it made me laugh lol

karman16    2 years ago

To be fair a lot of people didn't know how to use the elevator. If they were a party of 5 they were supposed to hit the button 5x. If they only did it once, the elevator thought only 1 person was getting on. Thus, 20ppl trying to get on 1 elevator.

taacman    2 years ago

Sorry you had so many problems. Not sure why you need a deck chair to go swimming. To change bedding you only need to tell your cabin Stewart and there was a number in the cabin so you could call him. Why complain about the elevators, be patient catch the next one.

byhisgrace    2 years ago

Thank you for your review. Sorry the cruise wasn't what you were expecting.

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Sorry this cruise didn’t meet your expectations. I met “that” lady at the shuttles in April. While she doesn’t work directly for Carnival, she gives them a bad image. Hope you find a cruise line that you like. Appreciate your feedback.

brianbumgar    2 years ago

*whether

Texasmongoose    2 years ago

There is hand sanitizer in every elevator lobby of Carnival ships I have been on. That is where the inside stairs are.

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Oops 😬

ursula007    2 years ago

So you will stop cruising with carnival because you had to wait on the elevator.

javawoody    2 years ago

Thanks for the review

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