My husband and I are both first time cruisers. We chose to book our cruise on MSC Splendida mainly because of the itinerary. We want some Mediterranean sunshine and Neither of us had previously visited Tunis, Malta or Sicily. These destinations sounded more inserting to us than some of those offered by the Royal Caribbean ships in the Mediterranean.

Before we embarked we were quite nervous because of some of the poor reviews regarding the ship. However we both had a fanatic cruise with MSC and did not experience the problems we read about.

Embarkation was incredibly simple. We checked in online before we left and so the process of receiving our cruise cards and getting on board was very quick (a matter of about 5-10 minutes). As soon as we embarked we were pointed in the right direction to our cabin by friendly staff. Read more