Rio de Janiero to Lisbon
April 8, 2022 16 nights
My first MSC experience was the Opera in 2004. I had a great, 5-day cruise from San Juan to Florida. The crew was accommodating; the cruise director, in particular. He remembered my name after we met.
I’ve been eager to sail MSC again, so when I saw a sailing from Rio to Lisbon, I just had to book it. I loved the ship, enjoyed wonderful ...
We chose this cruise as friends had been on it
Before and said how good it was. Having done many previous cruises with Royal Caribbean, Princess, P&O, Carnval and the first ever withThomson (Tui-now Marella), I was expecting exciting things: believing that Celebrity were the 5* cruise line (out of the Carnival owned ships). Currently onboard and whilst aspects of the cruise are good, there are ...
My husband and I chose this cruise for our Golden (50th) wedding Anniversary as we had cruised with Celebrity on Silhouette before and knew the suite that we wanted having stayed in it before so wanted to stay in this again for this special occasion as we knew the quality of the staterooms, food and staff efficiency and friendliness. We certainly were not disappointed as they excelled in all ...
Everything was perfect for this cruise, I could not it fault in any aspect.
Having last travelled with Celebrity to the Canaries in 2017 which was brilliant in every way, we thought the company would not be able to achieve such high levels of service throughout.
Well they did!
From the moment we boarded to our very last steps off the ship, the welcome, friendliness and sheer work ethic ...
Embarkation very chaotic
The room is very nice but the bed is small
Room staff very good
Restaurant - staff generally poor and not very helpful
-maitre D of the main restaurant is non existent
-food quality is hit and miss and mostly miss. not the same as Oceania or Regent
- the communication system between kitchen ...
Just got off from Anthem yesterday and already miss it!
Our last cruise was 3 years ago at Independence with extended family and we only booked this cruise 2 months ago wondering if it will be the same but it turned out to be absolute success. This time it was for family of 4 including myself husband and 7,11 years old children.
At terminal we were told it is about four thousand something ...
My wife and I chose this cruise purely because of timing. My wife works a lot in the USA and this week fitted in with her trip home in between various other family events. We would not have actually chosen this itinerary, but that wasn't really a big point of the cruise, we just wanted to get away and (mainly for her...) relax. We have also cruised with RCCI a number of times and have always ...
Short factual summary before my opinions: Queen Victoria was in good nick post-refurb with much outside painting going on. Passengers aboard numbered around 1550, and though there were definite problems with staff numbers – those at work were running around like the proverbial – there were no problems at all with staff helpfulness or courtesy. ALL staff at ALL TIMES were masked, passengers not ...
Covid tests
Pointless as we took covid home along with lots of people.
Had to have a Covid test at our expense this year (last year Royal paid) no more than two days before. We were booked at Lloyds pharmacy which is £30 each but when I rang up they didn't have any lateral flow test kits in and wouldn't know if they would have them for our appointment. So we used MedicSpot this time as ...
We chose this cruise as a 1 country short break to mitigate travel risks associated with Covid
Boarding was chaotic in Reykjavik as taxi drop off was at a crew reception area in a portacabin with no Rest rooms or refreshments
At 2pm a Silversea representative arrived with a nurse - documents were hurriedly collected including the required PCR results and the nurse checked for pyrexia. There ...