We booked in August 2016 for a December 2017 sailing because, its a new ship, Italian food and crew (I'm Italian). Good ports of call.

Sanitary conditions were deplorable, it was not mandatory to sanitize hands entering dinning rooms like other ships.. At the buffet passenger handling food and putting it back. Food servers not wearing gloves. After a week my wife had severer diarrhea Doctor stated "she has a food borne illness". In the hospital after two visits she received an IV to replenish body fluids, stayed in bed 7 days. A THIRD OF THE CRUISE. It was standing room only at the hospital. It cost us $328.40 for the visits. MSC made a fortune at the hospital.

SMOKING ALLOWED at all the outside areas. Not able to use the pools, eat outside or just taking a walk on the deck because of the stench of cigarette smoke. (Second hand smoke is just as bad as smoking).Paid extra for a veranda never used it because of a cigar smoker from one of the other verandas. I complained to no avail. We never would have booked if we were informed smoking was allowed in all outdoor areas. They should have had a designated area for smoking not all of the outside areas. Read more