Carnival Sunshine will return to service tomorrow after being out of service because the first week of January.
The cruise ship’s day out of service was a part of a scheduled dry dock. Older cruise ships go into dry dock each three years for routine upkeep and to maintain the vessels operating in high type.
Along with routine upkeep, a number of elements of the ship acquired full refurbishments. This consists of the water park, ropes course, mini golf course, jogging observe, and all flooring of all open decks.
New movement lights have been added to visitor cabins and the on line casino acquired a number of upgrades together with a brand new host deck on the Promenade Deck.
Carnival Sunshine’s first cruise again will likely be a five-night crusing from Norfolk to The Bahamas on February 11, 2025. The cruise will go to Freeport and Bimini.
The cruise ship will homeport in Norfolk for all of 2025 crusing largely six- and eight-night cruises to The Bahamas and Jap Caribbean.
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Since Carnival Sunshine has been in service 1996, the ship goes into dry dock each three years. The ship made historical past in 1996 being the very first cruise ship to ever be bigger than 100,000 gross tons.
In 2013, a two and a half month dry dock noticed the ship rework from Carnival Future into Carnival Sunshine.
The earlier dry dock in late 2021 noticed the ship obtain the brand new pink, white and blue hull design to associate with normal resort and ship upkeep.
You possibly can see Carnival Cruise Line’s full ship dry dock schedule right here.