However, there are times where - especially with cruise lines - we need to work with travel providers to gain early access to a product. 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. Carnival has never spent so much overhauling an older vessel, and we can't think of any other line that has, either.

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