MSC Meraviglia Review

Bigger most definitely NOT better!

Review for the Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
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ilovegoldens
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jun 2017
Traveled with children

I don't like to be completely negative in my reviews, so let's start with a positive:-

It's a beautiful ship.

That really is the only thing I can think of in it's favour. We embarked Meraviglia as a family of 5 at Barcelona. We have cruised over 20 times - 4 of which with MSC so I think have a fairly balanced view. Knowing it was a new ship we expected a few teething troubles, but this was in a different league. It took an hour for embarkation with a chaotic boarding process. Once onboard, we were impressed with the look of the ship - which is typically bling. Cabins are average size both in cabin size and balcony. We made our way to the buffet - which was an immediate disappointment. Pizza, pasta and very little else. Salads wilting and little or no vegetarian food. No clean glasses and the food was at best lukewarm - this was the norm overthe whole week. The pool area is nice, but during our week long cruise we experienced 3 fights over sunbeds, which on one occasion turned very nasty between two families. The sunbed situation is a bit of a powder keg I must say, as by 8am each morning the best situated sunbeds all had towels on them - and stayed this way for most of the day while the owners were on trips, they only returned to the sunbeds at about 4pm. The pool staff did nothing to discourage this. On the one sea day we had, which was incredibly hot, ALL the sunbeds throughout the ship were taken by 7,30am, which meant that many of the passengers did not get one. Some had a couple of beds each, as they had claimed one in the sun and one in the shade. It was a ridiculous situation we have not ever seen before on any cruise line.

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