202 Carnival Sunshine Review LIVE Pt. 1

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We are aboard the newly transformed Carnival Sunshine this week. We talk to Carnival CEO, hear passenger reviews, and info on the new Carnival Sunshine.

This is part one of a two part broadcast. Follow along on social media at #CCLSUNSHINE.

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected]

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0:15.0	Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com mobile studios aboard the brand new carnival sunshine.
0:22.6	This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskard.
0:24.6	And I'm Doug Parker.
0:25.6	Make sure you're following along with our social media hashtag CCL Sunshine.
0:29.6	We are back in the med.
0:31.6	This time aboard Carnival Cruise Line's brand spanking new ship, Carnival Sunshine.
0:36.6	What they did is basically gut Carnival destiny, put it in dry dock in Italy, and it came out as Carnival Sunshine, and a gorgeous ship it is.
0:45.3	Doug, with all the changes, is the ship bigger now?
0:47.3	The passenger count on this ship is 3,06 folks, so yeah, it did get bigger because they added 186 additional state rooms. They also
0:56.1	added a half deck and a partial deck to the ship while it was in Drydog. There's actually so
1:01.0	much material to cover while we're in the Mediterranean that we're doing the Carnival Sunshine show
1:05.3	in two parts. So on this show, we'll talk to President and CEO Jerry Cahill. Nancy Streter from the Family Travel Network will stop by, as well as Travel Writer Chris Owen. And from his radio show, Traveling, Paul Lasley, will talk to us. But first, senior editor of Cruise Critic UK, Adam Coulter is here. Welcome back to Cruise Radio, Adam. Hey, good to be back. I think it's safe to say we're all enjoying the ship. What are your first impressions?
1:31.0	Well, you know what? This is my first time on a carnival ship. I have had a look around breeze. So I got a view of what carnival ships were like, these new Funchhip 2.0s, the new changes that have been put in place. And what's really interesting to me is this whole backstory about sunshine,
1:46.9	the fact that this was an old ship that has had the biggest refit,
1:50.8	a unique refit, no one's ever done this.
1:53.2	And I've got to say, I, as I say, I haven't been on destiny,
1:57.0	but it's very hard to tell where destiny ends and where sunshine begins.
2:00.5	I mean, this really is an impressive refit.
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