MSC Divina Review
dtdaniels
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s
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Sail Date: Feb 2018
OK, I'll start off with the ship itself, its beautiful. The staff are lovely and all seemed like they were having fun, despite the problem I shall now have a rant about.
Our 10 day cruise I can only describe as being hijacked by over 2000 Holistic Holiday makers. This meant that great swaths of the ship were sectioned off just for them, often to have lectures from “doctors” about the benefits of eating nuts or some such thing, half the buffet restaurant sectioned off for their Vegan lovers, yet they still wanted to sit in the section left for non vegans. This made the buffet section very crowded and we often struggled to find somewhere to sit, but if we walked through the section for the vegans there were lots of empty tables The whole of the “first sitting” for evening meal was taken up by the holistic holiday makers, so everyone else had to have the second which doesn’t do my stomach any good, but I can sort myself out, it was the people with children I felt sorry for. I heard one report that said that a lady from the holistic lot went into the handbag shop and threw all the leather handbags off the shelfs, also in the mornings there was a group that needed to be taught how to laugh, very loudly using a megaphone. We met a couple on the ship that were doing a back-to-back cruise, they said the whole ship was completely different from their first 10 days. I also spoke to several staff and they said the same thing and begged me not to think this was a typical cruise on the MSC Divina. If the holistic holiday makers want to all go on holiday together then book the whole ship, that way there will not be tensions between people because that’s what it ended up being on this cruise, there was a definite us and them feeling by the end on the 10 days, I have never felt that in any other cruise. I can only out this down to the fact that every day there was different parts of the ship sectioned off for the holistic holiday makers.
Ok that rant over, I will come back to the ship, the food is ok, but evening meals did often come out luke warm, we had to send it back some times only to have it microwaved and made so hot it burns. The service in the evening was ok, our waiter was a lovely man, very personable.
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St. Thomas
This port is for jewellery loves only, there is just the one street (a cab ride away) that seems to only have jewellery. I could not tell you if it is all expensive fake or cheap genuine but it holds no interest for me. We did visit a beach for the afternoon but came back sooner than expected as it was small, over crowded, loud and smelt of illegal substances
St. Kitts (Port Zante)
A lovely island that I would love to visit again. the port was a small town which I can only describe as authentic Caribbean character. We took a cab to Cockleshell Beach, its lovely, pretty much what I envisioned the Caribbean to be. The food and service in the Spice Mill on this beach is good.
I am clicking no on the excursion button as we did not arrange any with the ship, we did our own thing.
Barbados
Loved this island too, again we did our own thing and had a wander around the port briefly and then took a taxi to have a look around the island. There are some lovely views and nice people, again an island I would like to go back to
Guadeloupe
The port on this island needs repair, but I will not hold this against them. It is a great shame that we did not remember that this island is where they film the UK TV series Death in Paradise as we would have taken a trip out there to look around.
Miami
this was just the port we flew into to embark on the ship
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