Durban MSC Orchestra Cruise Reviews

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Honest Cruise Critic5678
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

Why did we choose MSC Orchestra. We had booked on the new MSC Europa ex Dubai to Europe, its maiden voyage but changed as the Orchestra itinerary from South Africa to Italy was what attracted us at it included a 10 day visit & safari within South Africa including visits to Johannesburg, Cape Town & Durban. The overall value offer was very good. It’s the little things that make the ...
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Sail Date: May 2023

Cabin Type: Deluxe Balcony


What a nightmare

Review for a Trans-Ocean Cruise on MSC Orchestra

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adrian_y
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

We are currently on this excuse of a boat that you call a cruise ship "Cabin *81**" Previously we have travelled with Holland America, Celebrity, Carnival, Royal Caribbean and P & O Examples Dinner Ordered dinner and the vegetables were raw when we queried the head waiter he blamed the server The menu, well I hope your not paying the head chef a decent wage because he is not dishing ...
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Sail Date: April 2023

Cabin Type: Deluxe Ocean View (obstructed view)


Awesome experience

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First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

Hubby and I came to celebrate my 50th birthday. We had the best time ever. The balcony cabin a must..friendly Crew..good tasty food..clean rooms..live entertainment, Jayreed rocked the place with reggae music and in no time people were full on dance floor. Chico a drummer from Philippines was so entertaining..he played those drums hard..he was amazing, friendly, interacted with his audience, ...
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Sail Date: January 2023


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AntonEW
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

Tropical beach break from Durban . Nice roomy cabin on 15 th deck cleaned and quality linen with excellent TV and wide range of DSTV channels and bar refilled daily. Issues are restricted to Durban embarkation nightmare where passengers herded into enclosed tent for so called COVID document checks yet if ever this was a high risk viral vest pool in 40 degree heat with zero air most passengers did ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Deluxe Interior


Never again with MSC!!!

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skibum02
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

My family cruised on MSC Orchestra Dec 26th- Jan 9th from Durban with (planned) stops in Mozambique, Madagascar, Seychelles and Mauritius. I strongly caution prospective travelers to avoid this cruise and MSC as a whole after this disappointing holiday and will in detail describe our experience. BEFORE CRUISE: MSC website to manage your booking is vague in detailing how their packages work. ...
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Sail Date: December 2022

Cabin Type: Deluxe Balcony

Traveled with children


Worst cruise experience ever

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Cramermc813
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

MSC Review This has been one of the worst cruises I’ve ever experienced. I planned this vacation with MSC as a “cruise of a lifetime”, considering this was my wife’s first cruise experience. My expectation was clearly not met, not to mention the ship is old and the decor is grossly outdated! What my wife and I experienced with MSC Orchestra has greatly reduced our interest in cruising. MSC ...
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Sail Date: December 2022

Cabin Type: Deluxe Balcony (partial view)


The best cruise ever

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YADVIMEENA
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

We loved our cruise. We loved all the people we met there and also the staff were just amazing. The lady specifically that took care of us was exceptionally amazing. JUDITH. Even thr baby loved her. We even wanted to take her back home with us. The food was wow. We enjoyed everything to the fullest. Raja from the liquor store was also so nice and friendly. We loved his entertainment and music he ...
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Sail Date: May 2022

Traveled with children


Unexpectedly the last cruise of the season

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tonyfes
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

We chose this cruise because it was close to my wife's birthday. On the Sunday prior to the cruise our President announced the strict measures for gatherings and movement of people - we thought our cruise was cancelled and tried to contact MSC for confirmation not possible. MSC eventually notified us that the cruise was going ahead. On arrival at the terminal at 10.30 a.m we found that ...
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Sail Date: March 2020

Cabin Type: Suite


Lovely

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NMMavuso
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

We choose different destination from previous years, te cruise was lovely despite the harvoc we are going through in the world one thing that was so so horrible is that I booked 2 cabins and to be placed at 14007 another ar 12019 when later the next day after having requested that we are placed in the same floor then the is a cabin available when we have already unpacked-now that was not nice at ...
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Sail Date: March 2020


Money seems the prime objective of getting people to cruise

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Angela.Cromarty
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

We joined the cruise with friends. Just a weekend away ... and wanted to relax and have some fun. Everything is extremely overpriced. As we were paying in the region of R2000 pppn... we do expect quality. We paid for ALL our photos and got home to find most missing .. we were shocked. They were already horrendously overpriced.. then missing loads. The staff were obviously ...
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Sail Date: March 2020

Cabin Type: Balcony Stateroom

Traveled with children


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