130 Goodbye Carnival Destiny, Hello Sunshine | Carnival Cruise Line

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2012

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Lania Rittenhouse, VP of Product Development for Carnival talks about the transformation Carnival Destiny will be undergoing in 2013 to become Carnival Sunshine.

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0:16.4	Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:20.2	This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Basker. And I'm Doug Parker. Check out our cruise news at cruiseradio.net. On this show, New York City-based travel writer Craig Zabransky will review Puerto Lemont, the cruise port of Costa Rica. And Sturis, you around the cruise guy, will have cruise news for us. But first, hello, sunshine. Goodbye destiny, huh? Big announcement this morning, Carnival said they're going to basically take the destiny, transform it, give it a lot of renovations. And slap the words, Carnival Sunshine on the back of it. To tell us more, the VP of Product Development for Carnival Cruise Lines is with us, Lanya, Rittenhouse.
0:55.6	I should say welcome back, Lanya.
0:57.4	Thanks for having me.
0:58.4	Lanya, give us some of the highlights of this $155 million renovation.
1:03.1	Wow, this is a very exciting undertaking for us.
1:07.3	We are, like you said, just completely doing one large makeover of the ship and turning
1:12.3	the Carnival Sunshine into the ultimate experience for our guest. We have worked on trying to
1:18.7	deliver some of the new and exciting Fun Ship 2.0, bars, restaurants, and entertainment that we
1:23.8	recently rolled out on the Carnival Liberty. So we're folding those exciting new properties into the Carnival Sunshine,
1:30.4	as well as some of the new properties that we're going to see on the Carnival Breeze.
1:33.9	So with regards to dining options, we're going to see Guy's Burger Joint,
1:40.7	which is our new free poolside best burgers at sea, if you will.
1:46.7	Love them.
1:47.5	Yeah, love them, right?
1:49.2	So we'll be featuring guys Burger Joint.
1:51.4	We'll be featuring the Blue Aguana Cantina, bringing back all of our favorite Mexican favorites,
1:57.0	homemade, you know, burritos and tacos and all the toppings you could imagine there.
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