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Based on 15 reviews
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Fun, Fun, Fun!!!
November
Pros: Staff, service, cleanliness, entertainment, activities, food selections
Cons: Water slides were always closed, pools too small, always too breezy to play golf
Recommended: Yes
Overall … a great experience. Cruise Director James Love and his staff were amazing!!!
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Best Wait Staff
April
Pros: Fast, friendly service
Cons: N/A
Recommended: Yes
Igusti, Dora, and Kadek are the best wait staff! They were very knowledgeable of the menu and served us in a timely manner. Dining with this team was a pleasure. They also had the best dance moves! Thank you to Igusti, Dora, and Kadek for your service!
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Carnival Sunshine 2/4/2023-2/9/2023
February
Pros: Hard working, friendly, and courteous staff and crew.
Cons: Sometimes fun things were scheduled at same time as early dining.
Recommended: Yes
This is our 2nd vacation on the Sunshine. Have an 8 day booked on Feb 2024. This boat is the perfect size. Never had any problems getting an elevator. Crew and staff are dedicated and hard working. The Hub app made the daily schedule easy. Sometimes too many activities at the same times. Hard to make a decision. Food could have been better in MDR. The casino free drinks while playing was a fail. Sat for 2 hours at one machine and never saw a waiter at all. Lots of complaining about service in the casino. Had great embarkation and debarkation. Charleston has it going on. Wish they weren’t kicking Carnival out.
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Wonderful Cruise Vacation
January
Pros: Top Notch Service, Great Amenities, Excellent Staff
Cons: Use of Carnival App
Recommended: Yes
We had a wonderful time and look forward to another cruise in our future. The staff was second-to-none. Everyone was helpful, friendly, and concerned for our well-being. The ship, itself, was very good with lots of activities. The one down-side of this was that everything ran by the Carnival App. I took a vacation to get away from having my telephone in my hand 24 hours a day, but unfortunately, there was no way to keep up with scheduled events or schedule meals without the use of my phone. Gone are the days when I had a printed menu to look at for my meals or a printout of all of the events. That was very disappointing to me. The only other complaint, if you can call it that, was the shows were definitely below the standard of what I've come to expect on a cruise. The primary show never took place and the comedians they put in that spot were definitely not to my liking - vulgarity and lots of it. It would have been more pleasant had they had a back-up plan that was at least PG-13. Just personal preference. All else was wonderful, especially our cabin assistant, Cyndi, and the cruise director, Leon. He was spectacular.
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Christmas vacation
December
Pros: Leon, the cruise director was the best! Housekeeping was great! All the wait staff and entertainment, and all activity personnel was fabulous!!!
Cons:
Recommended: Yes
We had a fabulous vacation on the Carnival Sunshine!!!
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December cruise out of Charleston
December
Pros: Entertainment and friendly staff
Cons:
Recommended: Yes
The Sunshine Band was exceptional! They played everything from country to current pop tunes. Our highlight of the cruise. TJ brought allot of energy to everything he was part of.
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Review of Sunshine
June
Pros: Kind staff, Serenity deck, organized debarkation
Cons: Not a simple layout to the ship, esp for finding dining room. Very small bathroom stalls around the ship
Recommended: Yes
With the exception of the cons mentioned, we had a nice trip!
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