Hot Room & disappointing service & closed attractions.

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 11

Overall rating:

2.8 out of 5
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Carnival Horizon

6 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 04, 2023

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 5208

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Havana experience was the only reason this cruise was bearable. There is no True bar in the night club. Bar service is lacking around the cruise ship. Thriller theater was closed. The pools were unusable.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Getting on the ship was easy and fast. No problems there.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
The waiters in the dinning were ok. We had missing stuff multiple times. The sushi dinning was amazing but took forever to get service. The buffet was super disappointing. My diet is very limited to veggies & fruit & fresh meats. The salad options in the buffet were very limited.

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Pools were unusable unless you had Havana. We were super excited for the the Thriller Theater and it was closed the whole trip.

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5
I had a group of teenagers. They would not let my 13 year old move up to the highest club with her siblings and 2 cousins over being a measly 2 months too young.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Service was severely lacking. Havana pool bar tenders were awesome! Need to have bar service though. Sucks we paid all the extra money for Havana and we had to go to bar every time we wanted a drink.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Layout was fine but totally miss the red frog pub.

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
The cleanliness of cabin was great but it was almost 80 degrees in the room the whole time. We complained multiple times with no resolution. It left our sleeping experience a bit miserable. We had to keep blinds closed and balcony door closed the entire time to avoid the room heating up.

Ship tip

Get Havana. If it wasn’t for Havana, we would not had a decent time on this ship at all.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

1 out of 5
No excursions. Too many people hitting you up to buy stuff or take taxis. We had multiple people throw stuff at us to buy or step directly infront of us.

George Town, Grand Cayman

1 out of 5
Getting back on ship took 2 hours. They only had 2 tenders to get back in boat.it was also a very short day.

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
No excursions but love Cozumel as usual.

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Took hours to get off ship. Was worst I have ever seen. My group almost missed their flight.
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12 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     4 months ago

Thanks for sharing

CheekyRunner    1 year ago

80° room sounds terrible. I know I wouldn’t be able to sleep. 🙁

Gotapenny    1 year ago

Why couldn’t you use the pools?

Divegirl    1 year ago

Interesting! 5208 is a interior Havana room so how did you keep the balcony door closed? Hmmmm……

Itspeace4me    1 year ago

Thank you for your review.

lsbs    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing.

javawoody    1 year ago

Wow. Was their anything you liked?

DevastationInc    1 year ago

Did you have a cabana or balcony? Thx

AuntPinkie    1 year ago

Appreciate your detailed feedback. Sorry you were disappointed. The thrill theaters have been closed permanently, a disappointing thing (for me as well) but we’ll documented. The strict age guidelines have been discussed many times. A little research would have made your frustration less.

kdlady    1 year ago

Wow - you have a complaint for everything. Not sure it would've been possible for you to have a good experience on any ship.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

Kracka    1 year ago

We love Havana!

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