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Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 6

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Carnival Sunshine

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 18, 2018

Ship: Carnival Sunshine

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 1531

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

We are Diamond members and loyal to Carnival but would like to see some changes made, especially lower to music level.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
food wasn't up to normal. Food came out cool, not hot, variety wasn't good.

Ocean Plaza

2 out of 5

always very cold there. plus all the games are played there, very loud as is the music.

Lido Marketplace

3 out of 5

very crowded most of the time, especially on area day.

Havana Bar

4 out of 5

good place to meet for drinks, and eat a meal.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Sunshine Atrium

4 out of 5

Good place to meat before dining. But, again music wa so loud you couldn't cay on conversation.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Dinning staff (Pablo and Micheal) were out standing. Our cabin steward (I Nyman) was great.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Needs some TLC.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ship tip

Very cold in all areas except on pool area, make sure to bring a sweater. Never could get cabin cool enough, they tried. Easy to navigate around ship.

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Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

3 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

2 out of 5
No excursion. Tour still takes you to the natural bridge that ha been down for years.
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Willemstad, Curacao

3 out of 5
With two ships in port at some time couldn't get taxi or transportation to floating bridge. Having to use a walker couldn't walk the far.
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Grand Turk Island

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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3 Comments

boatlover60    6 years ago

If you go back to Aruba try an excursion to Arikok National Park. They typically do this on ATVs or small two person truck like vehicles. Natural pool, some ancient caves that are so so, a free natural water area with the fish that nibble on your feet rather than paying to put your feet in a fish tank in front of everyone in Cozumel, LOL. Beautiful moonscape type surroundings. It is definitely a desert so take water with you. I think most tours end up stopping at Baby Beach on the way back. Doesn't do much for me but if you have kids they will probably enjoy it. Sheltered, calm beach area and a (hokey) Flintstone themed restaurant and bar. If you like a mostly uncrowded beach but with somewhat limited eat/drink options, Eagle Beach is beautiful. The high rise area has lots of restaurants, bars and shops, the beach is narrow and can be crowded around the hotels but lots of good food. Downtown has many shops as well, I'm on this cruise in August and I believe it is in port until 11pm, not sure all will stay open that late and Sunday can be hit an miss as well.
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simond101    6 years ago

Please explain more
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lrgd    6 years ago

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