New dimension in vertical transportation on Carnival Horizon
BY DAVID G. MOLYNEAUX
BARCELONA
In a stream of passengers boarding the new Carnival Horizon, I entered an elevator for a ride to my assigned cabin, only to become a prisoner to a lift with a brain but no buttons.
The door closed quickly. Nearly a dozen of us, seemingly trapped in an elevator without controls, began rising to who knew where.
Carnival cruisers: Get ready for brainy lifts at sea that may know more about where you are going than you do.
Carnival Horizon, which begins cruising out of PortMiami to the Caribbean on Sept. 22, is the first ship built for the North America market that is full of so-called smart elevators, 33 of them promising faster times, fewer stops, and a new dimension in vertical transportation.
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