I agree with you regarding the comedy shows. I thought the theater shows were equivalent to my experiences on the other Carnival ships. The worst of any ships or cruise lines I have been on. I agree that the theater arrangement is horrible. I recently cruised on the Panorama and had a 2018 cruise on the Vista. Maybe some folks will recognize they don't need 15 drinks and we will all be better off. My suggestion is that Carnival offer a 1/2 plan at a reduced cost.
We also had a group of young girls talking loudly the entire comedy show, a really loud group at dinner, another really loud drunk in the Serenity hot tub, and a fight on shore where the girlfriend punched her boyfriend in the jaw after he called her a terrible name. His buddy stood up in the middle of the comedy show for no apparent reason. I saw a guy nearly throw up on the comedian. Same food, better flavor, cooked better.īoth ships offer good value, but both ships had a ton of drunks! I suspect folks figured "we saved money on the cruise, so we can afford the all you can drink plan!" And then they attempted to get their money's worth. I will say that the food was generally better on the Horizon. The shows are comparable to the other ships, as is the food. The Magic is a more traditional Carnival experience. Someone in the neighboring cabin stopped me in the hallway and said "WHAT IS THAT BANGING NOISE?" I told him that I believed it was waves hitting the side of the ship and he said "How could that be, the seas are like 6ft? What happens when there is a real storm?" We were in 2212 for Horizon and while I know that forward lower cabins have more noise, I was disappointed when it sounded like the thrusters were immediately below us and when we hit a wave (a mere 6 ft wave) it sounded like we hit another ship! My wife was awake for 3 hours in the middle of the night in spite of the fact that we had asked for a fan to drown out the noise.
I'm puzzled by how Carnival, after all these years, can't design better soundproofing for cabins. Maybe that's because the Punchliner is smaller than most ships forcing the comedians to repeat shows so that they don't run out of room in the club. We walked out most nights asking each other "Did you get the storyline?" Even though there are more guests on board there seemed to be less (unique) comedy shows. The shows are visually beautiful but very artsy and lack a broad appeal. Even when we got a front row seat in the balcony we still had a prop to contend with (see the large rose in the attached picture).
Horizon's show theater is poorly designed with the balcony offering poor visibility from most seats. By the end of the cruise, guests were getting on the first elevator to open and hoping it would stop somewhere near where they were headed but were content to walk up or down a couple floors so they didn't have to wait on an elevator.
The elevators are pathetic (and all you Carnival lovers better not blame "user error" because having just got off the Magic we consistently had MUCH longer wait times on the Horizon and every elevator stopped on 4 or 5 floors). I would be happy to answer any questions, but here are some notes I took.Ĭarnival Horizon is beautiful ship with a modern decor but has some significant design flaws. This was our 7th and 8th Carnival cruise, but we have also sailed NCL and Royal. We just did a back to back on these 2 ships (Magic out of Fort Lauderdale/Horizon out of Miami).
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