We have just returned from a 22 night B2B cruise.Our first MSC cruise was last month and this was no better (actually it was worse).

We were attracted by the Status Match scheme which catapulted us into their highest Black Card Status.

We immediately hit a problem when we went to confirm our request for a table for 2 had been received (it wasn't, just like last month). Salvatore, the obnoxious assistant Maitre'D was adamant that they only had 5 tables for 2 on the ship and had a waiting list of 100 couples, so we couldnt be accommodated. Read more