MSC Istanbul Cruise Reviews

Being our first cruise my wife and I have nothing to compare with, we searched reviews and noticed a mixed bunch of comments, mainly good. We are not sure how reviewers could score one or two stars. The ship , only launched in 2013 was Amazing, every part of the ship was like being in a five star hotel. We embarked in Istanbul, arrived at the port around 10.30am, embarkation commenced at 11am, ...

It was our first cruise and we are already keen to book the next one. We did the one week cruise out of Istanbul and really enjoyed the ship. It is clean, beautiful and has a wide range of services that we enjoyed. We though the food was pretty good, we were in the Villa Rosa restaurant, and a good range of options. Drink prices were same as a restaurant so really consider the drinks packages, ...

Having read all the reviews on MSC Divina before going, we felt it useful to give our perspective as well, albeit from a first time cruiser slant. Embarkation: This route is circular, and it appears you can embark at most stops, although the majority of people embark in Venice. We (and about 300 others) embarked at Istanbul, where everything seemed well organised, and we did not have to queue ...

Boarding in Izmir took 1/2 hrs because we waited for landing passengers for sight seeing.at 10.30 we received our magnifica cards ,our cabin was ready.Magnifica is a beautiful new ship and our 10th deck inner cabin was sufficient in size.We put our two suitcases into wardrobe and there was enough drawers to take in all our goods.We had applied for the first seating and we got a table for 2 at ...