MSC Orchestra Review

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Why so critical of MSC?

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Graeme2701
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Feb 2015

This was the third time that we have sailed with MSC, each time on a different ship and each time with the same verdict. Great. Quite why British reviewers generally slate MSC is beyond me. This is not Royal Caribbean, it is not Cunard, it is not P and O, it is MSC, it is an Italian Line, it has Italians on it. They are not British, they are Italian, they do not eat a full English. They do not queue. They are loud. They do not drink to excess. They push and shove a bit. BUT they do not wear football strips to dinner or breakfast or in fact at any time unless they are under 10. The Brits manage it though, grown men in football strips and shorts for dinner, classy. They eat good food and they like a few glasses of nice wine and they know how to behave.

Enough of the slagging off. To the nitty gritty.

After an overnight flight to Dubai on Emirates we were met a DBX by an MSC rep and taken straight to the ship. Arriving at around 1030 we were on board by 1115. People are right when they say you are not shown to your cabin but what is difficult about finding your cabin. First two numbers are the deck and last three are the cabin so 11187 is on deck 11 between 11185 and 11189 simple. Luggage is as per every other line delivered to your cabin, in our case within an hour of boarding. The cabins are perhaps on the small side but are absolutely immaculate and perfectly adequate for two people.

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Cabin 11

Perfectly adequate and kept immaculately clean

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