First bad experience with carnival cruise lines

Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 47

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
Carnival Sunshine

5 Night Bahamas (Charleston Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 29, 2017

Ship: Carnival Sunshine

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7319

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

My favorite part of the ship was the ship it self, guy's burgers,  room service,  and the Excursion Shore representative. We had issues with buffet staff, dinning staff, bar staff at Serenity area and casino staff...... We have never had this type of experience with carnival cruise lines,  very disappointed at carnival.  As me being a new up coming Travel Agent with Pro Travel Network very disappointed I couldn't recommend this ship to my clients and we was going to do a video review of the Carnival Sunshine,  to show my clients. We did the review but we didn't post it yet.... I did the survey for Carnival Cruise Lines, and letting them know about our bad experience we had, but I haven't heard anything from Carnival Cruise Lines.  I also gave them my contact info. No recommendations for the Sunshine..... We are going on another cruise soon but I haven't decided which Cruise Line yet..... It would be nice to hear something back from Carnival.....

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Service was horrible, and food was better on the fascination

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Room service was great, but other staff at the bar on Serenity deck, dinning staff and casino wasn't so Pleasant.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Phenomenal job to the room service person I believe his name was Kadak

Ship tip

I hope that they have a better experience than my wife and I.....

Ports of call

Charleston, South Carolina

1 out of 5
Not organized, but really like the warehouse that we parked at....

Nassau, Bahamas

1 out of 5

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

1 out of 5
Was this review helpful? 47

14 Comments

glomarrone    7 years ago

Sorry to read that this cruie did not live up to your expectation as past Carnival cruises had. 

sunshinel9ver    7 years ago

HAD PROBLEMS (issues) WITH THE ENTIRE STAFF??? No one could please this very unhappy person!!!!! Please let everyone know what travel company you will work for so we stay away from it!!!!!!!!!👎👎👎

JCSJCML    7 years ago

It is interesting the different moods encountered with staff on different ships even within the same cruise line.  I noticed a distinct difference in staff between the Crown and Grand Princess ships.  Grand being the better of the two.  I believe it has a lot to do with the management and that can be hard to get changed.  Hope your next cruise is better.

sherridunsworth    7 years ago

We enjoyed the Sunshine! Cruise on her again in April 2018.

sherried    7 years ago

also, you had trouble with just about the entire staff? that seems really odd....

sherried    7 years ago

why do alot of posts have that ' in the middle of words? all over the post, makes it unreadable.

Deniseg    7 years ago

What were the problems??? Sailing Sunshine in 3 days.

chocolate6338    7 years ago

call them and complain

BonMike    7 years ago

We all have different expectations and experiences on vacation. We were on the Sunshine in March and had the best time in 5 cruises. We loved the ship, found the food and wait staff to be great, and appreciated having our room cleaned 2x daily, without even asking for it. Our friends had a spa cabin and they enjoyed the access to the spa facilities, discount on spa treatments and the extra complimentary toiletries. We would love to cruise on this beautiful ship again. 

GIL155    7 years ago

To make you feel better (or worse?) here is a recent article about the Carnival Sunshine.

 

http://cruisefever.net/carnival-sunshine-cruise-ship-review/

GIL155    7 years ago

Glad you are not giving up cruising due to one bad experience. So many ships, so many itineraries, so many crews. The next might be perfection just waiting for you to enjoy. Good luck!

sully32    7 years ago

This was my wife and I third cruise with Carnival, we were definitely had our expectations set high from the previous cruises with Carnival. Ship was beautiful,  room service was great, and Shore Excursion representative was great. Bad experience with dinning staff, bar staff,  casino staff. Overall Carnival Sunshine ok, but not the best. I wish I could say more positive things, but I can't. We will cruise with Carnival again in the future, and I'm sure that carnival will correct some of these issues. 

banaford    7 years ago

You won't hear back from Carnival if you did the survey. Except maybe a thank you for the survey.

dixie1    7 years ago

what kind of problem same with all or different with each

Other reviews of this sailing