Not a good experience

Carnival Sunshine Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 21

Overall rating:

2.4 out of 5
Verified Review
Carnival Sunshine

4 Night Bahamas (Charleston Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 24, 2023

Ship: Carnival Sunshine

Cabin number: 8236

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

An expensive and lousy experience. The staff, with the exception of our great room steward, seem to have a serious morale problem. The officers seemed to want to be somewhere else. I did not feel welcome or well served. The halls were often noisy.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Smooth and well-organized

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Food was uniformly mediocre to poor, except vegetables were generally good. Meats were tough. The dining rooms we tried were all poor, with prepackaged meals indifferently served. On one night in the Sunrise room, the service and food was terrible - the food was wrong, the drinks took nearly an hour to arrive, and the beer exploded in foam when opened. The wine was served without wineglasses. The meal took two and a half hours. Horrible.

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
just not what I wanted to do, others may of course differ. If you like casinos, it might be fine. Movies were lousy.

Entertainment

Nothing I wanted to see or do.

Children's Programs

no children

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
Waiters were mixed, some good some really bad. Room steward was great.

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
The layout of the ship is terrible. The deck maps beside the elevators are inaccurate. You can't walk along a single deck to get to your destination, you must either choose the correct elevator of go up and down stairs. Very annoying. The STAIRWAYS ARE TOO SMALL FOR AN EMERGENCY.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Spacious (for a ship), clean and comfortable. Steward was great.

Ship tip

Don't.

Ports of call

Charleston, South Carolina

4 out of 5
fun city. no excursion

Bimini, Bahamas

4 out of 5
Sting ray trip was memorable, although expensive.

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Hurried and disorganized. Stairways are too small, the idea of an emergency at sea is scary.
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7 Comments

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

Greengator    1 year ago

Sailed on it twice once from port Canaveral and again after they moved it to Charleston SC and we had a great time sorry your cruise wasn't as enjoyable as ours thank you for sharing

okhappy493    1 year ago

We sailed on the Sunshine in 2015, we loved it so much that we are going on her again in 2024 and 2025, it's sad to hear that someone had a bad experience.

dlh22701    1 year ago

We have 2 cruises on sunshine coming up. Have been on it 6 times, one of our favorites. Sad that you didn't enjoy it the way we always do.

javawoody    1 year ago

Lot of complaints, wonder if you tried to enjoy anything?

cruising2004    1 year ago

Sorry you were disappointed with your cruise.

karlgrgurich    1 year ago

Sorry you had a crummy experience

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