Carnival Sunshine Cruise

Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

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Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 3

Helpful Votes: 72

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

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8 Night Southern Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 26, 2016

Ship: Carnival Sunshine

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 6196

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

The ship itself was very nice and the ports of call Aruba, Curacao, & Grand Turk were fun. Our favorite was Curacao, with the oldest continuous synagogue and the curacao liquor factory (We liked the new Tamarind flavor the best.).

There were a lot of changes since I had sailed last 2 years ago. The buffet was closed from 2:30 to 5:30 and if you wanted anything to eat you had to wait or eat at Guys Burgers (which we did not care for) or pizza. We had hoped for a salad and or fruit, something light. Sometimes the Deli was also open. We also did not like that they no longer served Bailey's Irish Cream, but some other terribly sweet off brand. The drink package you can by for the whole cruise includes not only alcohol drinks, but specialty coffees & teas, as well as bottled water, but not the water bottled water in your cabin or bottles of wine. The comedians were all very funny and the shows nice. we also enjoyed having high tea on one of the sea days.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Our steward Paul was great and the cabin was very clean ands well maintained.

Ship tip

We liked the anytime dining.

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Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

3 out of 5

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5

16 Comments

jaybush 8 years ago

Grand Turk is my favorite too. It must be a youngster thing because I'm 21 as well lol.

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courtneywills 8 years ago

Thank you I can't wait ya we want to do a beach day

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jtrbug0226 8 years ago

I don't pay any attention to others. I do think some are funny and ridiculous! My favorite island is Roatan!! I never want to get back on the ship, it's so beautiful and peaceful. My granddaughter's (21-years) fave is Grand Turke! She loves the beach there. You will have a blast because you're with friends and family!

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courtneywills 8 years ago

Yup I can't wait an were not picky people , like some of the comments on here people can be so picky it drives me nuts but I'm not letting it get to me. We had a blast on breeze an I know we will this one as well we go to Amber cove dr , an grand Turk

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jtrbug0226 8 years ago

Oh, my that sounds fabulous!! We celebrated our 35-year anniversary on the 13-day! We couldn't afford a honeymoon but we can now and this was a great one. You, too, will have a wonderful time. It is what YOU make it!

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courtneywills 8 years ago

That's good to know us this will be our honeymoon / 2 year anny we unfortunately couldn't afford one right after our wedding. But it's also going to be a big family vacation as well we have like 20 something people coming so in super excited 👍👍

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jtrbug0226 8 years ago

I liked the Sunshine's food much better. The Sunshine had carve to order fresh turkey, ham, beef and lots of choices on steam table. We rarely eat in MDR because we just eat when we're hungry. My husband loves the pizza and he's picky. Hand made crust-yum!

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courtneywills 8 years ago

No this will be our first time on sunshine we went on the breeze in 2012 an had a blast

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jtrbug0226 8 years ago

I was surprised they didn't like them. I have at least one every day and a salad. I love that someone else makes my salad! Lol. Were you on Sunshine's 13-day 8 island? It was a dream vaca!!

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courtneywills 8 years ago

Ya they are good that's like mostly what my husband had on our last trip an pizza he's a very picky eater lol

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jtrbug0226 8 years ago

I love Guy's Burgers.

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courtneywills 8 years ago

Jaybush no even tho you get the cheers package they just recently put a cap I believe it's 15 drinks per day per person but it's also now in general I guess too many people were getting too drunk. This is what my carnival cruise guy said who we book all Our carnival cruises through

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Matkins 8 years ago

49.95 a day but both parties in the room have to purchase the package. You have to be some real strong drinkers to drink a 100.00 worth of liquor a day🙀

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Ali73 8 years ago

49.95 a day, per person, have to purchase the entire trip- everyone 21 in the cabin has to purchase-

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jaybush 8 years ago

How much was the drink package? And can you drink as much as you want?

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mattw69 8 years ago

The local beer is very good also.

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