I have cruised with carnival, princess, and disney before. I really enjoyed my cruise with MSC this September 2014.

The first impression was "wowa... very fancy and i feel classy.." the embarkation process was very smooth. we got on board around 4pm and our luggage was by our cabin by 5pm. Very good.

the ship was HUGE!!!! but we did not feel any wave or turbulence, the entire cruise was smooth sailing. The ship was a little oddly designed. Deck five have the main restaurants, but that level is not through and through. In order to get to one restaurants (Black Crab), you have to go to up one level then to the middle of the ship, and go down a level in order to get to the restaurant. If you dine at Vila Rosa, you have to go to the end of the ship then go down to deck five directly. So that was a little confusing and took a while for lots of people to find out (we chatted with numerous passengers it seemed we all had the same confusion). Read more