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This is a clip from a late 1990’s documentary on the Carnival Destiny shortly after she was launched. The ship has since gone on to be renamed Carnival Sunshine. Features a very young John Heald. **This is a VHS rip…
The Carnival Dream and Carnival Sunshine (ex-Destiny) recently swapped homeports. The Dream jsut started her yearound cruises out of New Orleans, and now it’s the Sunshine’s chance to start with weekly cruises out of Port Canaveral. Here’s photos of the…
Just found this Carnival Sunshine promotional picture. What do you think of her exterior appearance? For what its worth, I hear her interiors are fantastic.
Seems like a normal distance to me. Not the alleged almost collision that the Italian newspapers would lead you to believe. Does it get dicey towards the end as she’s turning to port, eh maybe. But as COLOREGS (link in…
Locals in Venice are claiming that the Carnival Sunshine sailed too close to the shore when sailing by Riva Sette Martiri, to give guests a view of the famous Piazza San Marco. The above photo via the DailyMail shows how…
via Carnival: Carnival Cruise Lines today announced new ship deployments taking effect in 2014 in several key markets resulting in exciting new product offerings from Port Canaveral, Fla., and New Orleans. Carnival will now feature the widest selection of seagoing…
click for larger After suffering what is being described as a “minor technical glitch,” the Carnival Sunshine was delayed on her arrival to Messina, Italy. Fortunately no further impact is expected. Any small event on the Sunshine will be exacerbated…
Some bad news here for Carnival. CruiseCritic is reporting that due to ongoing construction onboard the vessel, the line is rolling some bookings. Contractors are needed onbaord the vessel to work full time in complete the work. The only space…
Couldn’t they have just done this and fixed her appearance? original source photo
Her are my thoughts now that she’s set sail. On a positive note, the insides look fantastic. Very bright and open. Lots of light colors used. Basically the exact opposite that Joe Farcus designed it with. You can view some…
The newly renovated, and practically new ship, Carnival Sunshine set sail on its “inaugural” voyage today. However, it seems not all the work was done in time. Pax were reporting that their cabins were not ready upon check-in. UPDATE: Cruise…
Here’s a really cool video done by Carnival showing the current status of the drydock of the Destiny in Italy.
CruiseCritic is reporting that the Carnival Triumph will be out through early June. She will remain in Mobile until the end of April/early May. Then she will sail to Freeport Bahamas to finish out all repair work. I’d Imagine that…
An odd choice, but exciting nonetheless. Carnival announced yesterday that the Carnival Conquest will reposition over to Miami in November 2013 to make room for the Carnival Sunshine (ex-Carnival Destiny) in NOLA. New Orleans originally lost the Conquest to Galveston…
Here is an exclusive render of what I think she will look like. This is purely based on the currently available deck plans.What do you think? click for larger
Carnival surprised us all when they announced that they will refurb, enhance, and alter the design of the Carnival Destiny. Oh and they are renaming her to the Carnival Sunshine. The $155 million ‘procedure’ (I think that word fits quite nicely) will…