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Review for a Europe - Western Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
GOIN2C
10+ Cruises • Age 70s
Sailed with husband,daughter and 2 friends.
This was our 55th cruise. 6th cruise line, returned from 04/04/2019 sailing on MSC .meraveglia
The ship is lovely, staff was wonderful, especially Jonathan, my room steward. ( Balcony Stateroom #13150, Aurea experience), was kept perfect at all times. Jonathan was kind, courteous and one of the best I’ve ever had.
The room needs more ...
Read MoreSail Date: April 2019
Cabin Type: Aurea Balcony Stateroom
Traveled with disabled person
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
Swandi n Meow
10+ Cruises • Age 50s
I have been cruising with other companies before so this is not my first cruise experience. But this is my first and last cruise experience with MSC. Pros and cons:
Pros:
(1) Beautiful interior - swarovski crystal stairs make it perfect for photos. The giant LED gallery on the 6th floor ceiling also stunning.
(2) Cabin - my interior cabin has pretty good space and got tidy up very well ...
Read MoreSail Date: March 2019
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
Roundy78
10+ Cruises • Age 40s
OVERALL
This was our first cruise on MSC so we were excited to try a new company after a couple of friends had recommended them. The ship itself is nice enough but found the many staff members to be quite rude. We visited some excellent ports. Food was decent. Most shows were dreadful. We had a couple of good party nights where we could dance until late. As it was winter the indoor pool and ...
Read MoreSail Date: January 2019
Cabin Type: Fantastica Inside Stateroom
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
TransOceanTwo
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s
Cruise in NEITHER a 1 nor a 5...realistically closer to a 2.
Best NOT to view this as a cruise ... better to invision as a hotel with meals and transportation to locations.
Ship has 5700 passengers and a crew of another 1500.....word to the wise!
Ship passangers are 80 percent Italian. Large groups of Chinese. Also Germans, French, Japanese, Russians and other nationalities. Very few ...
Read MoreSail Date: January 2019
Cabin Type: Bella Inside Stateroom
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
brianrjenkins
10+ Cruises • Age 60s
Ship is beautiful
Captain and senior staff should be fired!
Ship was filthy
I have never been on a cruise ship where they weren’t constantly spraying sanitizer on your hands. NOT ONE TIME did I see anyone spraying hands with anything! People all over the buffet coughing etc. on 3rd day of this floating bacteria petry dish and already one of our group is sick with diarrhea and vomiting. ...
Read MoreSail Date: December 2018
Cabin Type: Aurea Balcony Stateroom
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
mdj101
10+ Cruises • Age 40s
We picked this cruise after watching various videos of her online. It was to celebrate my mothers 70th Birthday and the price was great, especially as they don't charge for children which means we saves on 2 people! We chose three balcony cabins with Fantastica Experience.
First impressions were excellent.
Myself and my wife had managed to gain BLACK tier status in their loyalty programme ...
Read MoreSail Date: April 2018
Cabin Type: Fantastica Balcony Stateroom
Traveled with children
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
barry.katsof
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s
We chose this ship as they put to us in writing and advertise swell that they have a GPS tracking system for young passengers. As we were travelling with a very active 3 year old this was important to us as we feared that he would dart off into an open elevator and off he would go leaving us on the outside ! When we got on the ship we asked were to get the tracker and were told that it was not yet ...
Read MoreSail Date: March 2018
Cabin Type: Fantastica Super Family (2 Balcony Staterooms)
Traveled with children
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
enjoy8888
10+ Cruises • Age 70s
Chose this ship based on the dates I would be in Barcelona and it had a good itinerary. I am a seasoned cruiser having been on over 30 cruises so I had a lot to compare. MSC bombards you with staff selling different packages when you board. You have to pay extra for everything, room service, sauna and more. We boarded at 1:30pm and didn’t meet our room steward until 7:40 when Ihad to look for ...
Read MoreSail Date: March 2018
Cabin Type: Aurea Balcony Stateroom
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
Bilbo766
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s
I think if this was our first cruise ever, we would have thought this was an OK (not great) cruise. But we’ve cruised before with Holland America and Carnival which had given us certain expectations that MSC fell far short.
We picked this cruise because we liked itinerary. We wanted to see as much of Europe as we could in a short period of time spending the least amount possible on ...
Read MoreSail Date: February 2018
Traveled with children
Review for a Mediterranean Cruise on MSC Meraviglia
smitty41
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s
We have just returned from a one week cruise on-board the Meraviglia we travelled in a group of 7 adults family & friends age range 46-86, 2 of our group had walking difficulties & sometimes needed the assistance of a wheelchair, we had 3 balcony cabins.
(1) The good points about our cruise, The Ship is fantastic, we you first step aboard it is quite breathtaking, it really is just like a 5 ...
Read MoreSail Date: January 2018
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