Carnival Sunshine Begins Service From Port Canaveral

Port Canaveral’s newest ship, the updated Carnival Sunshine, is kicking off a year-round schedule of five- to eight-day voyages visiting destinations throughout the Caribbean, Bahamas and Florida

Carnival Sunshine is the first ship to have all of the line’s Fun Ship 2.0 bar, dining and entertainment additions which were added during a 75-day, $155-million makeover.

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Carnival’s three Port Canaveral-based ships will operate 200 three- to eight-day voyages a year visiting 18 tropical destinations throughout the Caribbean, Bahamas and Florida.

Carnival Sunshine will operate three different five-day eastern Caribbean sailings departing Sundays and including calls at Key West, Nassau, and Freeport; Nassau and Grand Turk; or Nassau, Half Moon Cay and Freeport.

Port-intensive seven-day cruises depart Saturdays to the eastern Caribbean and call at Nassau, St. Thomas, San Juan and Grand Turk, while week-long western Caribbean trips depart Saturdays and call at Cozumel, Belize, Mahogany Bay (Isla Roatan); and Costa Maya.

Two different eight-day eastern Caribbean cruises depart Fridays or Saturdays, and call at Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Thomas and St. Maarten; or Grand Turk, St. Thomas, Tortola and St. Maarten. Eight-day southern Caribbean sailings depart Fridays or Saturdays and include Curaçao, Aruba and Grand Turk.

For more information, visit www.GoCCL.com.