Drunk & Disorderly!

1st time cruisers looking for a new experience in travel.  Seasoned global travelers via Delta.  The cruise was not what we expected!  We met other many-time cruiser who also voiced the same issues that we noticed, so this is an unbiased review.

Cruise Day: late leaving port by 1 1/2 hour because passsengers did not arrive on time.  So we sat in Charleston Port waiting.

When activities began-nothing ran on time.  Shows were delayed or if they were on time ran over so I order to get to the next activity on the other side of the ship we were now late!  There should have been a 5-10 min window between activities.

We booked 'Spa Cloud 9' room- but many times other passengers would 'bump or knock' on our door.  Remnants of a daiquiri was splattered outside our door 2 nights in a row and wasn't cleaned up.  The additional cost did not mean peace & quiet.

The Carnival Sunshire is an old rust bucket, during the cruise attendants were painting (YES! painting the ship). The paint smell was horrible and waited in our stateroom balcony.  As we found out from other cruisers-Sunshine is the oldest and nastiest ship.  We agree!  

Food:  lots & lots of McDonald quality food.  It was not horrible, but it was semi-edible.  Salad bar was decent.  The dining room areas were nice, Lido marketplace-I would avoid, we looked, by do not do buffet.  Specialty restaurants are okay:  Fahrenheit is good, but make reservations early.  Bonsai-mediocre sushi. JiJi is good and customizable dishes.  24-hour Pizza was a favorite and fresh, but you can't live on pizza for 3-meals a day.  Room service had the best coffee-stronger than the Lido commissary.

Drinks:  flowed freely and were all over $54.99/per person a day with a max of 15 drinks per cruiser plan would seem to be plenty-but it was not for this cruise. People were over-drinking heir plans!   We did not purchase, but enjoyed one glass of wine with dinner for $10.95 per glass!!!

Debarking:  another fiasco.  There was a session on how to debate, but only a few attended.  So the morning of departure all the passenger raced to deck 3 to get off, thereby shutting down Customs.  So those of us who actually listened waited  3 additional hours to get off at 11am.  We were evicted from the rooms at 8am so the cleaning crews could 'sterile' the ship for the next group boarding at 11:30am.  I will tell you, our 'Spa Cloud 9 Stateroom' was far from sterile and smelled of old urine.