Family Cruise 2023

Item: Carnival Horizon
Rating: 4.2
Author: LaRae81

Carnival Horizon Cruise Review

LaRae81

Contributor Level: Second Mate

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Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 24

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

6 Night Western Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 24, 2023

Ship: Carnival Horizon

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 2436

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

First cruise for our children and my mother. Good was great. Room stewards were wonderful! Big shout out to Avon & Rudy!

Embarkation

3 out of 5

Port workers contradicted each other non stop and had us going back and forth repeatedly. Everyone outside was incredibly rude behaved as if everyone should know everything and they should not be bothered. We will not go back to this port.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Camp Ocean was amazing! We loved it. Circle C was a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. They advertised tons of activities and my 12 year old was desperate for activities. They did one thing the entire week. The rest of the time it was just workers on their laptops doing their own things. No activities. My daughter would rush to something so excited and be back 20 minutes later and say they never did anything. I wish they would have let her join the oldest group at camp ocean so she could have had something. Club O2 same thing. Just a bunch of teens unsupervised with no activities that actually happened.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Top notch as always!

Ship Quality

1 out of 5

I will never sail on a ship like the Horizon again only a couple decks go all the way through so you spend HOURS going up two decks then across then back down two decks just to get to dinner or a kids program. It was AWFUL. Just terrible design. The layout was the worst.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Don’t do it.

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Ports of call

Miami, Florida

1 out of 5

Convoluted. Poorly designed. Rude rude rude workers.

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Ocho Rios, Jamaica

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5

Again worker after worker giving opposing info. We had faster to the fun and keep being told we couldn’t leave then that we could then that we couldn’t and one even said to us “you should have told me you were faster2the fun” which we had multiple times. I know it is a stressful thing embarking and debarking but it really made a large negative impact on our vacation.

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9 Comments

mikeAtuttle 1 year ago

So was are guy he new our names and everything before we even got on the ship

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natelorip 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing.

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Gwbigdog 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

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Sogmoore 1 year ago

Sorry your older child did not like club c. My son has been going for years and has experienced all the clubs and has loved everyone. He is in O2 club now. The kids in the club can make a difference. Bust of luck finking a better cruise. Thanks for sharing

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stacy1025 1 year ago

Thanks for the review. We are sailing this ship in Nov/Dec- hoping embark/debark is smoother!

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cruising2004 1 year ago

Glad you and the family mostly enjoyed your cruise. Thank you for your detailed review.

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AuntPinkie 1 year ago

Appreciate your detailed feedback feedback. Glad Camp Ocean was a success, sorry about the situation for the older children. Glad you enjoyed your family cruise in spite of embarkation and debarkation.

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javawoody 1 year ago

Appreciate your comments

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gmababy 1 year ago

Very confusing review, to many contradiction in it.

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