Choose for the price and ports, but what a mistake. I'm sure you have read about the terrible food, but that just doesn't do it justice. All meat is served cold and raw, including bacon and hot dogs. Dinner always includes a (venomous) Cuttlefish and Squid salad (?) or some kind of (hopefully worm) under prepared fish, that I was was to scared to order.
The staff is friendly and attentive and ...
It looked like a good deal BUT,! the food overall was poor, only ever warm to cold never hot and very small portions with no potatoes or veg to bulk it up. The wine was only two types offered as they had “run out”! Breakfast was a nightmare, you were literally jammed in and couldn’t get out. I asked for English breakfast tea, first they took ten minutes to get the tea, then another ten to bring ...
My girlfriend and I have cruises with other cruise lines before and thought we would give msc a try mainly due to the itinerary. What a mistake.
It all started with booking. We purchased on msc.ca. The purchase of the cruise was fine but we came to learn we could not book any excursions online or shuttle transfers since the website did not work. Why launch a site if it is not ready!?!!? Online ...
- No sport facilities (i.e. only 1 ping pong table with no racket)
- Everything always close (i.e. all pools are close at 9pm, cinema open from 5pm to 7pm lol)
- Bad food
- Virgin island destination swapped with St Lucia (announced only onboard, no compensation)
- Terrible food at restaurant
- Some of my shoes and shirts were stolen
- Unpleasant crew members
- Every single ...
We were looking for a Christmas/New year cruise and this seemed to fit the bill. Big Mistake. Cabin was a little small and could do with more storage. Balcony was small compared to other ships. The pillows were particularly uncomfortable.There are tea and coffee making facilities in the cabin and hairdryer provided though it's a bit weak. The housekeeping was not to the standard of other cruise ...
We chose this cruise to get some winter sunshine and we were lucky as the weather was excellent, with just one day of rain. We flew from Gatwick and the organisation at the airport was superb ( bags dropped off and we didn’t see them until we got to our cabin on the ship). Embarkation was quick and no problems, unfortunately our problems then started to occur. Our arrival at the port was later ...
Pros =
1) Service at the dinner - Waiter always friendly
2) Service and cleanliness on our Room
3) Pre paid internet was 4gb for 4 devices and it was cheap comparing with other cruises that I´ve made
4) Pre paid digital pictures was very cheap. I got in the end a pen drive with 120 pictures taken during the cruise and it costed 90 euros. During the cruise, they were charging 30 euros ...
We chose this cruise because it was advertised as a great cruise.
The ship was marvellous. The food was only just acceptable.
Tea and coffee in the buffet was always cold. The attitude towards you was more like cargo than passengers. Complained to manager but it fell on deaf ears.
Getting off the ship at each port costs €18.99 each and you have to pay it no matter what. This is for the ...
1st time cruising was so looking forward to it, Ship itself is lovely
Balcony cabin very nice
Staff very nice
goldern lobster restaurant very nice ( but small portions )
DOWNSIDE : No celebration party on leaving Southampton. as its just another pick up port for passengers, felt like we sneaked away from all ports.
All Excursions are expensive & totally a waste of time. i.e.: ...
Just looked very nice from photos of which the decor was but the service was not at all great. The entertainment was really bad the shows were the same every night but with different costumes. Staff not at all friendly some actually rude. Staff in restaurant not at all friendly enough to hold a conversation or even get to know your name. Thought the food in restaurant was very simple no coffee or ...