To begin, I’ve sailed >5 times on Disney, Norwegian and Carnival so I have some cruising experience.
That being said, it is hard to give an accurate rating to MSC because of their amazingly low prices. One should almost EXPECT to get “nickel and dimed” to death. The problem was that this “penny pinching” sorely distracted from my cruising experience.
For example, passengers are offered ...
My four children shared two cabins on the MSC Seaview in the Yacht Club so they weren’t bunking in with us. We were assured by MSC that “everything” was included. They couldn’t stress this enough. Yet they can’t get icecreams, or have any free inclusions in the games arcade. As they can’t drink the included alcohol this seems unreasonable. The staff are lovely and the rooms whilst not big are ...
MSC Seaview - HORRIBLE, RACIST, SEXIST.
MSC Cruise line is horrible. It was a waste of my time and money. Dealing with the reception and excursion staff is a little difficult because the communication with the MSC head office is not good, therefore lots of the staff don’t even know what’s going on. My assumption is that the problem is corporate and a lack of training. The cleaning and waitstaff ...
We chose this cruise as we had a weeks holiday before meeting family for another part of our trip and the dates and location of the ship fitted perfectly.
We have been on cruises for over 30 years and have sampled many cruise lines over that time, and have changed our style of cruising as our kids were little/grew up/had kids of their own.
This was our first with MSC, and i had not read many ...
We jumped on the cruise as the temprature was to warm in Mallorca. We tried the most upgraded class available which was Aurea as this should have priorities. When embarking the ship - no pri. Only pri for extra cost was free seating time during dinner. My daughter has nut allergy and we ate at the specialty restaurant and informed. They served dessert with nuts and we needed to give treatment on ...
We started from Mallorca. The liner stopped not where it was indicated on the tickets and we ran for an hour under the hot sun to be in time.
The first 5 days were normal. Nothing remarkable. The pools were really full, it was impossible to swim because of the crowd of people. The ship is not designed for such a number of people.
On the 5th day at dinner, my boyfriend was served raw steak ...
I'm a very experienced cruiser, with more than 40 cruises, sailed with all big companies, etc, and cruised before with MSC.
I only bought this Atlantic crossing (Barcelona/Rio de janriro) because i thought was really a good price, US 3000 + 500 US onboard credit for a Suite with Aurea experience.
Check-in were smooth , although in my reservation and MSC app the embarkation time was ...
Just returned from a 7-night Mediterranean cruise (started from Marseille, FRANCE) - 2 adults/2 young kids
Pros:
- Ship is modern and well designed
- Deluxe Balcony room was a positive surprise and we enjoyed the room a lot (size and shape)
- Kids Waterpark was impressive.
- Experience at seafood/fish specialty restaurant Ocean Cay was very good
- Breakfast and lunch in main ...
We booked a cruise through Avoya Travel on the "MSC Seaside", departing Marseille on June 3rd, 2022. On our arrival in Marseille on June 1st, Avoya Travel emailed me to inform us that our cruise had been cancelled! We had to decide within a few hours whether to accept a booking on another cruise, with a different itinerary on the "MSC Seaview", departing a day later, or take a full refund. We ...
Family with 2 kids (10+12), Fantastica cabin category.
The ship had only 50% utilization, but the buffet-restaurants were absolut full!
Too many people, bad service, food was below average.
Dinner was nice, food was ok, on the service-managment they could also work more!
We expected much more than this for the price…
Embarkation was well done organized: from arriving to arriving ...