good staff, lots of down time Not worth repeating

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
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Overall rating:

4.3 out of 5
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Carnival Horizon

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 11, 2022

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 2406

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Not a cruise I would repeat or recommend. I talked my sister and her husband and a few others to go on this as 1st time cruisers. They were not impressed and couldn't understand way we said cruises are awesome. My reply was- we got a bad one- sorry. And told them this is NOT the norm.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
pleasant, went quickly

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
buffets seemed to have limited hours. smaller selections. Main dinning room was very good and liked the entertainment especially the magic show. No bar in casino and others shut down real early. Casino machines were not good- meaning they seemed to 'freeze up' or go down... no one cared how much u had when that happened and after the 3 (and final) time - I complained to all and it fell on deaf ears. Customer service said they didn't have anything to do with them.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
skybike, pools when open and not packed. water park, golf. Picture studio computers would freeze up. I did like how my pictures were Not hung on wall. This made so easy to view. I had bought the 10 8×10 package then bought $300 more... I asked I could get 6 5×7 with 6 different poses. was told yes, this was not the case.... instead of 3 sheets, it was 6 sheets... thus very pricey. the staff just said sorry nothing they could do.

Entertainment

2 out of 5
What was available was good, not much to choose from. and some during our dinner and was not one for earlier or later.. comedy was in sm room and was packed

Children's Programs

5 out of 5
kids (10 & 15) enjoyed going and loved the scavenger hunts and volcano

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
room steward was awesome. service desk was ok. seemed to deal with grumpy folks. waiters were awesome

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
during the night a/c seemed to go down. AC would randomly go down throughout the day and night all over the ship. our cabin was very clean and well prepared for us daily . I loved being in Family Cove- made it real easy for breakfast...we had 17 in our group. towards the end of the trip - the last 2 days older kids started raising cane - hiding games, remotes, being hogs with food - no parents or staff. The last night security finally showed up. kids had broke door to family cove, broke remote, hitting exit signs. running and including running into people.

Ship tip

TV & TV remotes were awful, A/C didn't work well in many areas so dress in layers

Ports of call

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5
the submarine was ok, not something we would do again, not much to see. the snorkeling shipwreck was AWESOME and the crew was great, very nice rope swing, it got lots of use.

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
clean and friendly people. I only shopped.

La Romana, Dominican Republic

4 out of 5
Beach was overcrowded and extremely dirty both in the water and on the beach. A dead women washed up on shore like 500' from where we has swam.. no body showed concern... glad we were leaving. I understand things happen but the locals were so nonchalant it was scary.

Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

4 out of 5
was told by islanders only go to city Beach and use trusted taxi..well who am I to say. We stayed in carnivals Park which was clean, nice and inexpensive food and drinks. Kids loved the water slides.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
We got in-line, proceeded to baggage claim, loved it broken down in sections. And one last check...and we were on our way.
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2 Comments

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Appreciate your feedback!

RustyRed    2 years ago

Disappointed to hear, we are going at end of July and with all the reviews I’m hearing I’m getting concerned

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