Just booked: Jan 2024 ABC cruise on Carnival Horizon!

[EMOSEA]

It's forever away, but I'm just so excited! We'll be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary with one of our bucket list cruises. If you've done the ABC cruise, what was your favorite thing to do on shore? 

Crossing my fingers for no more global pandemics! 

Thanks for letting me share a bit of joy today. 🙂

[cellfree]

Excited for you. We have done the ABC Islands and loved it. Would do it again. Aruba had a great public transportation system that we took advantage of. 

[Cruisesfun65]

We have a fun group doing the ABC cruise 9/9/23 with locals on board for inside tips 🙂

[SNJCruisers]

Since you're going to be on the Horizon, hopefully you'll be in a Havana cabin.  Did an excursion in Aruba with three wheeled choppers and it was a blast.  Been to Curacao as well and will be doing all 3 on a repo cruise from Galveston to Miami on the NCL Prima next year.

[BlerkOne]

8 hours ago, EMOSEA said:

It's forever away, but I'm just so excited! We'll be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary with one of our bucket list cruises. If you've done the ABC cruise, what was your favorite thing to do on shore? 

Crossing my fingers for no more global pandemics! 

Thanks for letting me share a bit of joy today. 🙂

I hope I am wrong, but if I found the cruise you are referring to, I didn't see Curacao listed. But it still looks like a great cruise, and it does hit Aruba and Bonaire. Bonaire is the port that many cruises miss, but I liked it 

 

 

[young_ens]

16 hours ago, EMOSEA said:

 If you've done the ABC cruise, what was your favorite thing to do on shore? 

🙂

When we went that far south, we visited Curacao and Aruba.  Curacao was a shopping and town visiting day for us, lots of little corners to explore for shops, some cool forts, the swing bridge was also fun.  

 

Aruba has lots of shopping nearby, people are super friendly.  Taxis were available and safe.  We took a taxi to a beach on the west side (5-10 minutes from the port), we went to Eagle Beach on the advice of the cabbie: great water and quieter than Palm Beach (resorts/casinos nearby). 

[EMOSEA]

12 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

I hope I am wrong, but if I found the cruise you are referring to, I didn't see Curacao listed. But it still looks like a great cruise, and it does hit Aruba and Bonaire. Bonaire is the port that many cruises miss, but I liked it 

 

 

It's there! It just doesn't show up when I searched for it with different promo codes, but shows up with early saver. Here's the itinerary screenshot from my email 🙂

[EMOSEA]

13 hours ago, SNJCruisers said:

Since you're going to be on the Horizon, hopefully you'll be in a Havana cabin.  Did an excursion in Aruba with three wheeled choppers and it was a blast.  Been to Curacao as well and will be doing all 3 on a repo cruise from Galveston to Miami on the NCL Prima next year.

I wish! We wanted a balcony, but the Havana balcony was quite a bit more. Someday we'll get a Havana Cabin! Maybe for our 15 year anniversary 🙂

[cellfree]

1 hour ago, EMOSEA said:

I wish! We wanted a balcony, but the Havana balcony was quite a bit more. Someday we'll get a Havana Cabin! Maybe for our 15 year anniversary 🙂

We cruised the Horizon in 2018 TA from Barcelona to Miami in an Interior Cabin and loved it, you will surely enjoy your Balcony. 

[SNJCruisers]

1 hour ago, EMOSEA said:

I wish! We wanted a balcony, but the Havana balcony was quite a bit more. Someday we'll get a Havana Cabin! Maybe for our 15 year anniversary 🙂

It all depends upon where you will be hanging out.  You can probably get a Havana inside for less than your balcony.  I would check it out and compare.

[BlerkOne]

2 hours ago, EMOSEA said:

It's there! It just doesn't show up when I searched for it with different promo codes, but shows up with early saver. Here's the itinerary screenshot from my email 🙂

and so it is. I think I must have been looking at 2023.

 

I would stick with a balcony over an inside.

[SNJCruisers]

14 minutes ago, BlerkOne said:

and so it is. I think I must have been looking at 2023.

 

I would stick with a balcony over an inside.

With the Havana inside, you can hang out in the Havana area, kid free and have two large hot tubs and your own pool.  Or, you can pay more for your little balcony and battle the masses for hot tub and pool space.  To each his own, that's why there are so many different cabin categories to choose from.

[BlerkOne]

1 minute ago, SNJCruisers said:

With the Havana inside, you can hang out in the Havana area, kid free and have two large hot tubs and your own pool.  Or, you can pay more for your little balcony and battle the masses for hot tub and pool space.  To each his own, that's why there are so many different cabin categories to choose from.

January isn't a high season for kids anyway. And not all balconies are little

 

[SNJCruisers]

5 minutes ago, BlerkOne said:

January isn't a high season for kids anyway. And not all balconies are little

 

We were discussing balconies on the Horizon versus inside Havana area on the Horizon.  As usual, you spin doctor things and bring up a bowling alley balcony which is not available on the Horizon.

Sticking to the topic at hand....it is 809 pp for an inside Havana on the 8 day cruise versus 1129 for the cheapest balcony.  I'll save the 640 bucks and use it elsewhere like Cheers and stay away from the masses in the Havana area, while you pay the extra 640 to stay away from the masses on your regular balcony on the Horizon, not the bowling alley type that is not available on that class of ship.

[EMOSEA]

3 hours ago, SNJCruisers said:

We were discussing balconies on the Horizon versus inside Havana area on the Horizon.  As usual, you spin doctor things and bring up a bowling alley balcony which is not available on the Horizon.

Sticking to the topic at hand....it is 809 pp for an inside Havana on the 8 day cruise versus 1129 for the cheapest balcony.  I'll save the 640 bucks and use it elsewhere like Cheers and stay away from the masses in the Havana area, while you pay the extra 640 to stay away from the masses on your regular balcony on the Horizon, not the bowling alley type that is not available on that class of ship.

I'm happy with my choice of a regular balcony, but I definitely want to book a Havana room someday. I think I still have covid on my mind and feel like if there was a virus outbreak I would want my own balcony and not be stuck in an inside cabin to quarantine in, lol. Hopefully things will be more normal when 2024 comes along. 

[BlerkOne]

5 hours ago, EMOSEA said:

I'm happy with my choice of a regular balcony, but I definitely want to book a Havana room someday. I think I still have covid on my mind and feel like if there was a virus outbreak I would want my own balcony and not be stuck in an inside cabin to quarantine in, lol. Hopefully things will be more normal when 2024 comes along. 

Smart choice. Once cruise restarts, you should be able to pick up a set of Havana wrist bands on Ebay to see what is behind the wall.

 

Serenity areas are on all Carnival ships for a break from kids.

 

One cabin I would never book are the patio Havana cabins. Everyone who walks by checks to see what you are up to, and the regular balcony cabins higher up can look straight down into much of your patio and maybe drop their sun glasses in for a visit.

[Saint Greg]

Wow I usually don't see the A,  the B and the C together. I usually see the A and the B or the A and the C but not the A, B, and the C at the same time.

[SNJCruisers]

5 hours ago, BlerkOne said:

Smart choice. Once cruise restarts, you should be able to pick up a set of Havana wrist bands on Ebay to see what is behind the wall.

Going to be expensive since you'll have to buy all of the different colors that the bands come in, assuming that you'll find all of the colors available for sale, which I doubt.  I know of at least four (brown, tan, yellow, blue) and there could be more.

[SNJCruisers]

4 hours ago, Saint Greg said:

Wow I usually don't see the A,  the B and the C together. I usually see the A and the B or the A and the C but not the A, B, and the C at the same time.

Just pulled the trigger on an 11 day repo cruise on the brand new NCL Prima on Halloween of 2022, with 5 days at sea and 5 ports (Cozumel, Great Stirrup Cay and the ABC's)

[EMOSEA]

7 hours ago, SNJCruisers said:

Just pulled the trigger on an 11 day repo cruise on the brand new NCL Prima on Halloween of 2022, with 5 days at sea and 5 ports (Cozumel, Great Stirrup Cay and the ABC's)

That sounds amazing!!!