We just came back from our W. Med cruise July 10-17, embarkation from Genoa. For the entire cruise, sunny everyday and hot! We also sailed MSC Musica on July 18-25 the following week. Please see other review.

Background: We are a family of 4, DH & myself are in mid 40s, DS 14 and DD 12 and have cruised RCCL, NCL & Princess before. This is our 8th cruise and this is the 2rd MSC cruise. We cruised with MSC Lirica in the Caribbean a year ago and the Musica next week. We are very active people and everything we did DIY; we did not join any ship excursions. The reason we chose this cruise was the itinerary (everyday is port day) and of course my 2 kids sail free! Departure: We flew from YYZ to MUC then GOA and arrived around 2pm the day before. Took a taxi (cost 30E) from airport to the Novotel hotel. On July 9, everything was on strike in Italy so there was no public transit until after 6pm. We walked all the way to the cathedral and went to McDonalds for dinner, as we were very tired with jet-lagged. After that, we took the metro back to our hotel. Just right next of Novotel, there was a gas stn and we picked up a 6x1.5Lt water for 1.99E. What a deal and we brought it to our cruise.

Embarkation: Was very smooth in Genoa with no line up. We were in our cabin guided by a white-glove attendant to our cabin before noon. The whole process took less than half an hour. Read more