CARNIVAL SUNRISE FULL

Here’s what to expect.Įditor’s Note: TPG always tries to pay full price for any travel its staff takes and usually doesn’t inform companies in advance of our plans to review. If you’re a Carnival fan, you’re going to love the new Sunrise. But the changes (which include the addition of a snazzy new waterslide complex an adult-only top-deck escape multiple restaurants and more cabins) go a long way toward making it one of the most alluring ships in the Carnival fleet. After testing out Triumph-turned-Sunrise on a quick getaway to Bermuda over the weekend, we’re not yet ready to call it as-good-as-new. To put the $200 million price tag of the Sunrise overhaul in perspective, Carnival only spent $420 million building the ship in the first place (although when adjusted for inflation, that number jumps to about $640 million in today’s dollars).įor that sort of money, you should expect some major changes. A massive makeover of Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas earlier this year cost a “mere” $115 million. That’s $35 million less than what Carnival spent on Sunrise.

Royal Caribbean’s just-announced makeover of Oasis of the Seas, billed as its biggest ship overhaul ever, is expected to cost $165 million. It was rechristened Thursday at a ceremony in New York.Ĭarnival has never spent so much overhauling an older vessel, and we can’t think of any other line that has, either. To make the point, it has given it a new name: Carnival Sunrise. The revamp of what until now has been known as Carnival Triumph was so massive - significant areas of the ship were completely gutted and rebuilt - the line basically considers it a new vessel. That’s how much the Miami-based cruise giant has spent over the past few months overhauling one of its oldest vessels in one of the biggest cruise ship makeovers in history. Can a 20-year-old cruise ship be made new again? Carnival Cruise Line is betting $200 million that the answer is yes.

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