Carnival Sunshine Review
Great staff and ports of call; ship was okay!
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My wife and I just got back from a 7 night cruise to the Western Caribbean (Cozumel, Honduras, Belize, and Costa Maya). We have taken taken 8 cruises in the past 10 years. We booked this cruise primarily for the ports of Honduras and Belize. (More on that later).
Carnival Sunshine was a smaller ship with all of the 2.0 upgrades. The retrofit of all of the upgrades created many tight spaces on the ship and really did not have large enough public spaces. The main lounge is the smallest that I have seen on any ship. This room doubles as a night club after 10:30pm. The dinning rooms were a little tricky to find as the layout of the ship did not allow people to walk on each of the floors. The food was very good in all places. Not sure why anyone would feel the need to visit the specialty restaurants and pay the extra money. Desserts need a little work... but you can always fall back to the Choc Melting Cake or ice cream.
The Limelight Lounge (Comedy Club) was not large enough. Every show was full and you had to be 20-30 minutes early just to have a seat in the lounge. This room does not make sense to me. The comedians could only face 1/2 of their audience as the people sitting on the sides had to watch on a closed circuit tv as the layout of the room was terrible.
Cabin Review
Interior
Our cabin was an interior room. We choose an interior room as we typically like the darkness of the inside staterooms. As with all interior staterooms space is quite limited and we did not feel as though this room was any different than the 8 previous cruises that we took. We rarely spend time in our room so this was not a huge factor.
Port Reviews
Port Canaveral (Orlando)
We took a private shuttle from the airport to Port. We arrived around 2pm and Embarkation was very simple. We were sure to have all of our paperwork in order and we made sure that our online check in process was completed in advance.