Carnival Horizon Review

Loved this ship and everything about her. Great cruise!

Review for the Southern Caribbean Cruise on Carnival Horizon
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lhargrove62
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Sep 2018
Cabin: Havana Premium Vista Balcony
Traveled with children
Brewery
Grand Turk
Grand Turk
Movie under the stars.
Havana furniture
Havana pool at night.
Wrap around balcony
Wrap around balcony
View of Havana pool area

I am way over due to write my Horizon review. We sailed the 8 day out of Miami on September 22nd.

First of all, I loved every minute on the ship. I have no complaints at all. I am going to talk about things I noticed that might sound like a complaint, it is not. Just an observation that I might have wanted to know before I got on the ship.

Getting on the ship did not go as planned. We were expecting to start getting on the ship about 11:00. It was after 11:30 and people were still getting off. I think we finally got on about noon. I heard all sorts of reasons for the delay in embarkation- problems in customs, problems with luggage, they were finger printing everyone in customs, someone committed a crime on the ship and they were talking to everyone as they got off the ship….. who knows what really happened. I just know that it was pretty frustrating. We arrived early as we are platinum and were supposed to start getting on the ship at 11:00 AM. Before we got on the ship we looked outside and there was a hug line of people waiting outside, in the heat. I felt terrible for them. They must have been miserable. When we finally let people on they pretty much opened to the doors – calling group numbers one after the other. People just flooded the ship. Everyone showed up for food at the same time, all wanting tables to sit at etc. I really didn’t get a change to unpack before we sailed so I had to spend my first night in the room unpacking. But, we sailed right on time and Miami got smaller and smaller just when it should have.

Cabin Review

Havana Premium Vista Balcony

Cabin HM

I love the wrap around aft cabins. The balcony is amazing. You trade off a bit for the room itself. The cabin was hard to walk around in. No walking room. The desk was in a corner off on it's own. I missed the 3rd closet. The Havana furniture is amazing. Loved it!

Port Reviews

Curacao

Beach day in Curacao: We took a taxi to Blue Bay Beach. The taxi was pretty expensive, but cheaper than most of the other beaches. I had done a lot of work trying to decide what beach I wanted to go to when we got there. But, I just couldn’t make a decision. Blue Bay was on my list but I was worried that it would be really crowded. I was so glad we chose to go to Blue Bay. It was not over crowded at all. We were the only cruise ship in port that day. That may have something to do with it. We paid our $8.00 per person to get in. This included use of chairs and umbrellas. There was wifi and a bar that served food as well. The beach was rocky so bring water shoes and you will be fine. I brought my snorkel gear and was so glad I did. The snorkeling was great. My daughter found an octopus, there was a lot of fish. Great beach snorkeling. We had a great time at Blue Bay.

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