Balcony cabin midship was a little tighter than on the Crown Princess or Celebrity Summit -- you almost can't walk around the bed -- but beautiful, well-lit, good storage, and highly functional. You'll need most of the week to figure out how to increase the water pressure in the shower. Don't push; don't turn. Push-and-turn simultaneously. There are both American and European plugs at the desk; no plugs in the bathroom.

MSC's Gran Tour involved significant walking; we went inside St. Peter's Basilica, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum, and we saw Neptune's Fountain. They forced us all to eat lunch together which was not good.

The catacombs was a really interesting 30-minute experience. Everything else on this Mysteries of Palermo MSC tour was filler.

I wish this Neolithic Temples and Marsaxlokk Bay tour had given us more time two see both neolithic temples, and less time staring at the colorful fishing boats at Marsxlokk Bay. Walking Vittariosa was a delightful and unexpected bonus.

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I would recommend Grandiosa for rich people who can hide in the Yacht Club, and for poor people who can get a really good room rate and just want transport between cities and are content with buffet and dining hall food.However, whereas the Celebrity Summit assigns a permanent team of three to each dining room table, and the Crown Princess has a mixed staff, on the MSC Grandiosa it's just one guy handling all aspects of every table in his section, from serving wine to changing utensils, to scraping crumbs.

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