Sunshine Dry Dock May 8th-20th

Sunshine Dry Dock May 8th-20th

Someone on another site asked about the Sunshine going in for dry dock in May...

Per JH: Yes indeed, she does go in then for 2 weeks dry dock and will receive a great makeover and new carpets and lots of cleaning etc. She will look amazing when she comes out and heads to Charleston. Cheers and please do ask me if you have any further questions

It was also mentioned she will have the American Table menu by November....

Excellent!

We board Sunshine for her Journeys cruise on May 30, so she should be in tip-top shape.

Thanks for posting!!

Awesome news! Thanks for sharing. I'll be on her on the first cruise from NYC in June.

All good news EXCEPT the American Table. While I enjoyed our cruise last FEB I will say I did NOT enjoy the ship. It's old and showed it, even with the multi-million dollar upgrades. Adding more cabins/staterooms simply takes away from public areas and it showed,.

Yay!! We sail May 26, so she will look nice and spiffy clean for us!

Great News

she will be as fresh and clean. we lucked out for this trip

We will be sailing June 15 out of Norfolk so this is exciting, not that we weren't already excited lol.

Does anybody know if anything will be added? Perhaps a mini-fridge for all the rooms?! :D

Or will this just be a thorough cleaning with new carpets/paint?

Really? Already?:eek: Wow!!!! Seems like she just went through her big refirb. Guess it's been a few years. I am bad with timelines. :o

Is she going to be in Charleston full time after her refit?!

I thought American Table was supposed to hit early this year, like next month or March? Not til November now?

We sail her in April just before dry dock. All our other cruises have had American Table, so if she doesn't switch before then we will experience our first of the old menus. Both other ships we went on switched a matter of weeks before we boarded, we seem to attract the new menus.

Really? Already?:eek: Wow!!!! Seems like she just went through her big refirb. Guess it's been a few years. I am bad with timelines. :o

This!

She just had a full makeover at the end of 2012. You would think a ship without 2.0 like Valor would come before sunshine.

This!

 

She just had a full makeover at the end of 2012. You would think a ship without 2.0 like Valor would come before sunshine.

It is... The Valor is going into Dry Dock in April

Is she going to be in Charleston full time after her refit?!

I wish! Sunshine is moving all over the place. She will port in Charleston, Norfolk, New York and who knows where else in the next year or so.

Charleston is getting Ecstasy full time shortly when Fantasy moves to Miami.

Is she going to be in Charleston full time after her refit?!

For a few months anyway, then up to New York before back in Port Canaveral I "think" by the end of the year.....

We aren't going on Sunshine until November, but I am looking forward to the American Table menu. I happen to be one who really likes that menu. I had it on Liberty last year and I loved the beef Wellington that isn't available on the old menu.

I also liked being able to get mashed potatoes and broccoli almost every night. Lots of good things for me on that menu.

Woo hoo that is awesome news for us! We are taking her out of Charleston on May 21! So her first cruise after the makeover! So excited!

I'm still hoping they put a mini-fridge in all the rooms! :D

Can't wait to board in October!

I asked John about Sunshine going into dry-dock .... here's his reply:

John Heald

January 19 at 11:57am

Yes indeed, she does go in then for 2 weeks dry dock and will receive a great makeover and new carpets and lots of cleaning etc. She will look amazing when she comes out and heads to Charleston.

Im going on the cruise the week before she goes into dry dock. We get back to canaveral May 8th. How will that affect our cruise? If at all....

i am booked for the Sunshine in Jan 2017 out of Port Canaveral so she is definitely doing back there at some point.

I may a minority but I have no idea what you people are talking about. We sailed on the New Years cruise last month out of Port Canaveral and absolutely loved the ship.

I thought they did a nice job with the decor and renovations . Really no complaints.

I also appreciated not cruising with 5,000 other passengers. The Sunshine is a nice size and should be a benchmark for other new ships

I asked John about Sunshine going into dry-dock .... here's his reply:

 

 

John Heald

January 19 at 11:57am

 

Yes indeed, she does go in then for 2 weeks dry dock and will receive a great makeover and new carpets and lots of cleaning etc. She will look amazing when she comes out and heads to Charleston.

So it looks like just a "touch up" dry dock. No mini-fridges in our future :(

Thank you for the info!