MSC Europe - British Isles & Western Cruise Reviews

Mostly pleasant experience. The restaurants are well stocked with varieties of food options, both at the fine dining and buffet market place restaurants. Loads of onboard activities and entertainments. Helpful and knowledgeable staff. Modern amenities everywhere. The lifts, the booking system, the bar service are all automated. The only complaint I have is the lack of live TV service. The ...

Hi, I'm an experienced cruiser who tried MSC for the first time Thanksgiving week out of Southampton, England. MSC acknowledged Thanksgiving day in its daily program, but there was no celebration dinner in the main dining room or buffet. I've read many negative things about MSC, most of which I did not experience. One of the nice things about MSC is that they status match (I received Gold ...

We had sailed previously on MSC Preziosa in the Caribbean which was just a glorified bus service picking up and dropping off people at each port which we found odd as no other cruise line seems to do this. This caused congestion at every port getting on and off. The food on board was at best average and the portions in the main restaurants very small. And once the staff found out that you ...

We chose this cruise as it represented very good value and convenient from Southampton. We also liked the idea of sailing on a brand new mega ship. All in all we had an excellent time and enjoyed the facilities and service on board very much. It does get busy at times especially in the buffet restaurant but this is to be expected on a big boat and to be honest it was not that bad and we did not ...

I like MSC Cruises and I'm not a part or full time snob. I pay a fantastic price and feel you get more for what you paid to be fair. The ship is clean although slob passengers seem hell bent on wrecking the ship, mass stains on furniture etc, MSC do a great job keeping it clean and very presentable. We have been treated to excellent shows every single night, well last night was a bit ...

Done over 40 cruises over 5 cruise lines MSC up there with the best. We had 4 days of bad weather over the 7 nights even that couldn’t dampen our enjoyment. You can’t do much about the weather cruising North Europe in the winter but we had a wonderful day in Brugge as well as Hamburg. Tried to do Rouen from la Havre but got washed out on the way to the station. Already done this port ...

Not a fan of big ships but chose this cruise for the itinerary. Thought with the port visits we could deal with the number of passengers. Ship is very nice and kept clean. What it suffers from is lack of staff serving in lounge areas for ordering drinks and receiving them. Long delays! Also being able to find a seat was also an issue - especially on sea days. Due to a storm in the English Channel ...

We picked this repositioning cruise to take advantage of a visit to Jordan, in particular Petra. The deal looked too inviting to resist, but how we wish we had. It all started to go downhill when we received an email from MSC at 3pm the day prior to boarding advising us that "with your safety and wellbeing in mind, we have taken the decision to slightly amend your cruise". This 'slight amendment' ...

We generally sail the Caribbean and wanted to visit another region. We arrived at South Hampton the morning of sailing with a short 1.5 hour drive to port with plenty of time to spare (8PM sailing). The embarkation in a wheel chair was a bit cumbersome, never the less ok. We didn't partake in any of the outdoor amenities due to weather, cold and drizzling. The live entertainment was very good ...

Chose this cruise to experience luxury cruising on a budget. This cruise gave us the ability to experience small ship luxury features while still being able to access large ship entertainment, facilties and interaction with thousands of other cruisers if we wished to. We stayed in a deluxe balcony (YC1) with a front facing cabin. The Virtuosa Yacht Club is an exclusive enclave of around 160 ...