There are many good things to say about this ship. Unfortunately, they are overshadowed by two things that will keep me from ever stepping foot on it again.

My husband and I and our two grandsons, ages 8 and 11, sailed from Port Canaveral on June 5, bound for Cozumel, Belize City, Roatan, and Costa Maya. We are all seasoned sailors. My husband and I have been on about 30 cruises on Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Princess, Disney, Carnival, NCL, and other lines. We have sailed on cruises in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Baltic, and Asia. Our grandsons have two Disney and two Carnival under their belts. So we know cruise culture and know how ships of various lines operate. We are not newbies.

Embarkation was fast and easy. We arrived at the port about noon and were eating lunch by 1 o’clock. I think paying for Faster to the Fun would have been useless. (Ditto for tendering. We were on the first tender out and did not have FTTF.) We ate lunch and went to our cabin. Reason number one I will never sail the Sunshine again. We had booked a balcony cabin 7243. It was that. It was also the smallest balcony cabin I have ever seen, even smaller than those in NCL. Moreover, the pull down bunk extended a full 18 inches over the main bed. I immediately asked my cabin steward to put up the bunk every morning. He did not seem happy about it but he did it. And I have to say he was the best room steward we have had since the 90's. He made up our room while we were at breakfast and while we were at dinner, the optimum way it should be done. It is not possible to function in the cabin with that bunk down. You bump your heads constantly and it just looms there! Read more