MSC Divina Review

Still one of my favorite ships!

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on MSC Divina
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Sail Date: Apr 2023
Cabin: Deluxe Interior
Forward pool with moveable rooftop --
Always nice and warm inside!
Interior Room
Black & White Lounge
Cold chocolate "cake" (more like a mousse texture) - Delicious!!
Juggler at the show at night
Strong "muscle couple" at the show at night
Acrobats, basketball dunking, singers, dancers at the show at night
dancers at the show
Ocean Cay
Beautiful water and scenery at Ocean Cay
Musician in the Atrium
Costa Maya Mexico 
eating lunch at the Krazy Lobster
Krazy Lobster - Miami Vice drink
Snorkel trip from the Krazy Lobster
Costa Maya
The guide takes pics and sends them to you! We saw 5 or 6 sea turtles.
Costa Maya snorkel trip 
Schools of fish
Costa Maya snorkel trip
lots of coral
Cozumel

This was my 3rd time on Divina, all solo cruises. It's a good size: not too big, not too small, and you can always find a quiet spot to yourself or a lounge chair somewhere. I chose this one yet again because they were advertising a GREAT sale for solo cruisers! ** Thank you MSC!!! **

- And actually I did the 4-night starting on April 10, 2023 (Nassau and Ocean Cay) plus this 7-night back to back. -

There was no line at all when I got to the port for Embarkation, around 12:40. Went smooth.

Cabin Review

Deluxe Interior

Deck 11 Forward Room 11***

Very comfortable. Nice refrigerator.

Port Reviews

Costa Maya

I took a cab from the port to Krazy Lobster Beach Club. I had booked a snorkel boat trip in advance. Christian met me at the Beach Club and set me up with a table. When it was time to go out on the snorkel boat, he showed me where to go. There were 8 people on the snorkel trip. Our guide, Jared, was terrific. After a short ride, we all got in the water (including Jared) and saw lots of cool stuff!! Jared took underwater pictures the whole time, while helping and guiding us. We saw 5 or 6 sea turtles - two which were really BIG! There is still live coral, and we saw schools of fish. The water was not cold.

When we got back to shore, I spent the afternoon at the Krazy Lobster Beach Club. Ordered lunch, had a drink, sat out in the sun in one of their lounger chairs. Listened to their music, both live and piped in. It was nice because it wasn't super loud, like at other clubs.

Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve

Ocean Cay is AWESOME!! My favorite private island now. This was my fourth time here. I went over to the beach that is just past the Spa, and there was almost nobody there. Nice & quiet, scenic for pictures, and a float plane even came right up to the beach. *This is probably a rare event, but it was SO cool to see.

Go to the Food Court area early if you don't want to stand in a long line. Or walk right up to one of the many included food trucks for a burger and fries. Both are delicious.

Took a nice long swim in the lagoon, from South Beach over to North Beach. Saw lots of big and small silver fish / a few barracuda / and a school of fish came splashing by me like they were being chased! Saw a pretty shore bird strolling along grabbing fish from the clear water.

Always a great day at Ocean Cay!!

Cozumel

I took a cab from the downtown cruise port to Sky Reef. (Ask around to compare prices. I got 3 different quotes)

It's just past Chankanaab Park, so the snorkeling was really good. There is no sandy beach, but they do have lounger chairs in a sandy area between their restaurant and the water.

To get in the water, you walk out on their short pier, and climb down the ladder into waist deep water. I saw SO much stuff here, it was crazy!! There are purple sea fans everywhere you look! Saw some spiny sea urchins, a small sea cucumber, and some little Christmas tree-looking things attached to one of the fans. I was staying in the shallow part, taking my time, just floating along, you have to look close.

There was the biggest porcupine puffer fish I've ever seen! And a long skinny striped eel. Schools of yellow fish, some barracuda, needle fish, parrot fish, blue & green fish (I call it the Bahamas flag fish!!). I looked up two fish online, because I couldn't identify them. One was maybe an Ocean Triggerfish, silver with a fin on top and bottom. The other was maybe some kind of file fish (?): yellow with blue, flat looking, with a snout and an underbite. Really cool!!

Lunch was delicious too!! I got chicken nachos and a Dr Pepper. Service was great!

I asked when I arrived, if I could just order off the menu, and hang out to go snorkeling. They were fine with that. Otherwise you can pay one price that includes food, drinks, snorkel gear, a massage, and a tequila taste.

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