Great except engine failure at 4 am on last morning and adrift with no power at sea for 2 hours
Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern
5 Night Eastern Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)
Sail date: May 13, 2018
Ship: Carnival Sunshine
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 6339
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 6 years ago
Review summary
At 4am on our way into port Canaveral I was awakened while wearing my cpap mask to no electricity and not being able to breathe. We were without power for around 2 hours, the cruise director finally came on after an hour of waiting in the dark with alarms blaring and the smell of smoke to say they were trying to find the problem. Then everyone was sent to level 5 for debarkation to wait because we got into port late. At around 10 am we were told we could debark and they were rushing debarkation at that point. We had to drag our luggage down the steps because there were so many people trying to get off the ship. Upon leaving the port, a port employee authority told us the sunshine had lost its 2 main motors over a month ago and been running on its backup motors. And something had happened to the back up motors is why we were adrift for 2 hours This was terrifying and unacceptable situation. And 2 days later I still cannot sleep and shaken from this. We were scheduled to go on another cruise in July 2019, but after finding out about being put out to sea with unsafe engine failure, we are thinking about looking into another cruise line.Embarkation
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Ship tip
Ask if they have the 2 main motors fixed. We were adrift for 2 hours with engine failure
Ports of call
Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic