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Nice review and photos. Thanks for doing it! Good luck with figuring out your next chapter.

Great review. thanks for doing it!

Enjoying your review. Thanks for doing it!

As always, great trip report!  Thanks for doing it.

Colesc15, thanks for doing this.  We were supposed to be on the 1/15 canceled Symphony cruise, so I will be following your report with interest.  Enjoy that nice, empty ship and eat a lot of good food!

This is a great review.  Thank you for doing it!

I’m enjoying this review!  Thanks for doing it.

Great review and photos!  Thanks for sharing.

Great review and photos!  Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for doing the report.  Your photos are beautiful!

Nice review and photos!  Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for doing this review.  Enjoy the rest of your cruise!

Nice photos!

Great review!  Thanks for doing it.

Great review!  Thanks for doing it!

13 hours ago, parodeejay said:

@newdestination Random question about the Private Oasis excursion through the ship... one member of our party is nervous about getting on the catamaran without a little encouragement. Were there drinks available ON the catamaran, or just once you got to the island, do you recall? Thankee!! 😄

They did not offer drinks on the catamaran.  On our trip, it was a very large vessel.  I would have called it a ferry.  It also takes guests to Passion Island for another Carnival tour, the All Inclusive beach break.  

Do you have a group cruising, or just two of you?  If you have a group you might check out Carnival’s Private Oasis at Passion Island tour.  We did that with our family (group of nine) on our Horizon cruise in January.  It is a good value if you have a group.  You get the use of a beach house, lunch, open bar, and your own private section of beach on Passion Island.

Great review!  Thanks for doing it.  

Great review.  Thank you for sharing!

I was on this cruise too.  I agree with what you said about the public restrooms.

Do you know why they didn’t have the Celestial Strings production show?  It has gotten such good reviews here.  I was disappointed about that.

Thanks for writing a review!

Very nice review.  Thanks for doing it!

OP here.  We were on the ship last week and as it turned out, did not utilize the specialty restaurants (except for Pig and Anchor at lunchtime).  We felt the food was good enough in the main dining room.  This was my first Carnival cruise in eight years and I felt the already included options were a big improvement over what I had last time. 

My last two cruises were with Princess and....my opinion only....but I thought Carnival’s food was just as good as what we had on Princess.  We chose Carnival this time because we brought our young grandchildren.

Keep in mind, we live in rural Iowa and don’t have much choice of restaurants when we do go out to eat.

It was a blanket last week on the Horizon.

Just hop on an elevator.  Of course, it IS a lot of stairs from deck 2 if you choose to use them.  Ha, we swore at the beginning of the week we would use the stairs as much as possible.  By the end of the week we were....using the elevators.

1 hour ago, JaniceB said:

Thank you for the well written review.� Thanks for sharing the picture of the balcony.� I had originally booked one for a family cruise but we changed to another ship.� Did you by any chance get pictures of the interior of the room?� I had booked one on the corner that had an odd shape and wondered what it looked like inside.

Here’s one.  Not a corner room though.