MSC Splendida Review

Enjoyable family cruise

Review for the Western Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Splendida
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sthelder
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Apr 2013
Traveled with children

We are back from our MSC Splendida cruise (6 April to 13 April) and Italy tour this week. Personally would rate this cruise as 4 out of 5. The itinerary was Genoa - Marseille - Barcelona - Valencia - Sea day - Tunis - Civitavecchia and back to Genoa.

It was my DD3 first ever cruise and the three of us very much enjoyed our cruise together. We didn't go with high expectation, and were pleasantly surprised in most aspects.

1. Embarkation and disembarkation

Cabin Review

Cabin 6

8248 is in fact an accessible aft balcony and we were allocated this cabin by the cruise line when our cabin was upgraded from the oceanview cabin we booked.

It is obviously spacious and has fantastic aft view, the special facilities (such as rail in the bathroom and lowered hangar behind bathroom door, extra door width etc) should be able to meet the needs of people require mobility assistance. Our DD3 loves those feature, as she could hold on to the rail during bath and her stroller can easily go in and out of the cabin.

The room was not spotlessly clean (it's so big that there were corners not clean thoroughly), but sufficient to impress even my DW (who likes to keep things clean, neat and tidy).

We did find a cigarette butt on our balcony once (we are non-smokers), though we didn't notice our neighbour smoked on their balconies, my guess is it was probably thrown by someone from a higher deck and it got blown back down to our balcony.

We didn't hear loud engine sound or lounge music (right below our cabin is the deck 7 aft lounge) or feel excessive movement in our cabin. The only disturbance was when the thrusters were used in port. Which was not really a big issue, as we were more often than not already up by then.

We also mostly used the lifts or stairs at the aft to go to the MDR and buffet. Only need to wait for lift to go kids club or disembark and walk to the theatre, so the location could be both convenient and inconvenient (for people who do require mobility assistance).

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