MSC Poesia Review

4.0 / 5.0
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Nice ship, good itinerary, noisy stateroom

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colbuck
6-10 Cruises • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Dec 2012
Traveled with children

MSC Poesia is a nice and elegant ship. It is spotless clean, definitely cleaner than average cruise ships.

I chose this ship because of the itinerary and was not disappointed. Due to high winds, the ship could not dock in Falmouth but docked two hours later in Montego Bay. At all the other ports the ship came on time and getting off the ship was a fast process, except for the tendering in Grand Cayman which went longer than expected due to strong winds. I had booked excursion with private companies in advance and all went smoothly. I would in particularly recommend the "ride and swim" adventure with El Barrio Dorca Ranch in Roatan which gave us the opportunity to go horse-riding on the beach in West End and taking a plunge in the lukewarm waters of West Bay. Having a flight in the evening, we booked an excursion with MSC on the last day which was highlights of Miami and shopping at Dolphin Mall: it was well organized and at a good price. MSC had also organized our flights and transfer from Miami to Port Everglades: that was very well done and luckily so as we would have missed the ship due to a very heavy delay in intercontinental flights (the ship actually departed one hour later than schedule to wait for us!).

Our stateroom was an inside on deck 11: it was fairly large and well appointed. The safe was large and the hairdryer very efficient. We did have a major problem with our stateroom, though: it as located next to a crew alleyway and we would hear crew going back and forth all night long. The point was that everytime a crew member entered or exited, the heavy door would slam, make our wall and my bed shake. After the first sleepless night, I went down to the reception to report the fact: they investigated it and called me up in the afternoon saying that they would lock the door of the alleyway and ask crew to use another entrance. As my daughter soon noticed, this did not happen and the door had no lock at all! However for the following 2 days, crew seemed to be more careful and the door would slam only occasionally.

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Cabin 3

Large room but too noisy beacuse next to cre alleyway. Stay way from it!

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