Headed north out of NYC

Item: Carnival Sunshine
Rating: 3.7
Author: davidcarnahan

Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review to Canada, New England, New York

davidcarnahan

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 44

Overall rating:

3.7 out of 5

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5 Night Canada/New England (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 07, 2017

Ship: Carnival Sunshine

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 6156

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

good cruise. Ship was well refitted. Food selections good even without the premium options. The southern ports seem to be better suited for shore visits.

Embarkation

1 out of 5

The embarkation process was a complete and utter train wreck. There were 3 lines to get registered: regular passengers, handicap passengers and Faster to the Fun passengers. If you were in the regular line, you were stuck with absolutely no movement as long as there was a single passenger in any of the other lines. If someone walked into the other lines, you had to let them go before you. There were no separate desks for them - just lines. So we waited as the next cabin in the regular line for about an hour (with a thousand people in line behind us) because they wouldn't let us go as long as anyone was in the priority line. This definitely cannot be policy and caused all kinds of anger in the lines. The contractors used to manage this process was rude and downright clueless as to what they were doing. I will never cruise out of NYC again on Carnival.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Children's Programs

no children

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ports of call

New York, New York

3 out of 5

Saint John, New Brunswick

3 out of 5

no excursion - nothing in port

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

4 out of 5

lots to do even without an excursion

Thumbs Up 6

Disembarkation

4 out of 5

carried our own luggage off

1 Comment

CruiselineSarah 7 years ago

It seems like they should have handled embarkation sort of like Disney World handles those with fast passes. Move the fast pass line along quicker, but still keep the regular line moving too. Maybe 3-4 groups in priority for every 1-2 groups in regular. Sorry it was such a horrible embarkation experience!

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