Hamburg MSC Magnifica Cruise Reviews

English friends chose the line and the cruise although after reading the reviews (prior to the cruise), I'm not sure why. Now that the cruise is over, I'm really, really happy that they chose MSC and the Magnifica! Our cruise was the 12 day from Southampton to Le Havre, France then on to Spain and then back to France and on to the Netherlands and Germany. Let's start with the embarkation and ...

We saw this short cruise as a quick getaway for the Easter weekend, with the cruise section going from Hamburg to Southampton.Having cruised from / to Hamburg before we’ve seen all of the main sites, therefore decided to fly direct from Birmingham to Hannover and stay there for a couple of days before moving on to Hamburg and boarding the ship. Hannover is a fairly compact city with some ...

MSC seem to attract a lot of mixed reviews and this worried some of our group who had never cruised before. There were 8 of us and I have now travelled with MSC 3 times and highly recommended this cruise line. I have sailed with P&O, Cunard, Royal Caribbean and NCL and I think MSC is my favourite, with NCL a very close second.. I was concerned some of our group would be disappointed after reading ...

This was my third cruise with my family (my wife and 2 children aged 10 and 7) and my second with MSC. After the great time we had on board the Fantasia last year, we looked forward to our cruise this year. I picked this cruise for the itinerary (Germany, Scotland, England, France, Belgium , the Netherlands) and the good price. We were not disappointed. 70 % of the passengers were probably ...

Having read the reviews prior to our cruise we were surprised to find the opposite. For example everyone complained about massive amounts of noisy children...our cruise only had a handful of kids, our son being the only English speaking one! Most of the passengers were grumpy elderly Germans or middle age Russians, so the nightclubs were deserted! check in was fabulous, we were in our rooms within ...