just what the VayCay Doctor ordered
Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review
5 Night Bahamas (Charleston Roundtrip)
Sail date: March 28, 2022
Ship: Carnival Sunshine
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 2 years ago
Review summary
The Sunshine is an older ship and she shows it but the crew works hard to keep her as clean and looking nice as they can. The serenity decks ate great, but there are a lot of chair hogs and holding. Peoe slept in the clay shells overnight to se ure them for ne t sea day. I thought that was a little ridiculous but to each their own. Then, it ended up raining at 9 am and continued to downpour entire day so..... There was talk about rowdy youngsters running amuck all over the ship but we never saw it, luckily. I tried the 24hr pizza place one night and that became our late night snack al.oat every night. Tip the guy a couple dollars because the pizza makers are some of the hardest working of all the food service workers.Embarkation
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
Sunrise Dining Room
Service was excellent, food mediocre. We ate all of our breakfasts and dinners here. I was disappointed with the selections, but I found foods to eat every meal. We heard a lot of hype about the sea day brunch so we tried that too. Food was overcooked and hard (biscuits), dried out (chicken). But other food selections were good. Hot or miss.
Guy's Burger Joint
The pig patty was really good. Husband had the ringer. I loke my burgers well done and they were. My husband likes a medium rare burger but he finished his burger just the same.
Bonsai Sushi
If I could give this 10 stars I would. We had a California Roll and a tempura seafood roll. Absolutely delicious.
RedFrog Pub
This was great. My goto drink is a hurricane and they serve a really good tropical hurricane here. They got to know me, as this was our go to bar to get drinks.
Piano Bar 88
Scott was a lot of fun and got us all involved with the songs. Very entertaining.
Java Blue Café
We had the cheers pkg, which also included coffees at the Java Blue. They were very good. We only had the "ship coffee" the last morning on debarkation day. We got spoiled!
Onboard Activities
Entertainment
Service and Staff
Ship Quality
Cabin / Stateroom
Ship tip
At present, after a show in the Limelight Lounge, they usher you out the back doors. They tell you to go up one flight and walk to aft stairway and back down to get back in line for next show. Just go through back door and go out the double doors as if you are going to Muster station C. Walk until you see another set of double doors and go back in. You'll be right where you need to be very quickly.
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Disembarkation
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