MSC Divinia

MSC Divina Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
MSC Divina

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 23, 2016

Ship: MSC Divina

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

UGH, where to begin? Just back from MSC Divinia cruise and we mostly felt this was a huge disappointment. The ship itself is beautiful ship, the pools were very nice, but that's about all the good things I can say about this ship/cruise. 

 

We were allowed to check in early, so we got at the dock at around 10:30 A.M, but check in was difficult, and it was 1:00 before we got to cabin. Our luggage did not arrive at our cabin until after mustard call. The staff with the exception of few could speak little to no English. The first night their was a single security light that we could not get to shut off, so I called the desk, and she basically said our cabin attendant

was gone for the night and we would have to wait until the next day to seek help with this light. I advised her we can't sleep with light shinning in our eyes and I did not care who came to help, but somebody needs to, she then advised me to cover it with TAPE..Finally after much complaining somebody came to help. The lighting in that ship will drive you insane.

 

As far as food goes, nice salad bar, LOVED BREAKFAST, but dinner was same everyday, and OMG, how do they cut steak the width of paper...REALLY, it was that thin. The first day, first lunch, I bit into hamburger and literally spit it out in front of everyone...I think it, No...I know it was BAD, prolly left from the previous cruise. Their pasta was awful, Pizza was good, and that's pretty much what I ate everyday while on this cruise. The chef never had side items to go with dinner, such as green beans, corn, potatoes, etc. Lunch and Dinner was pretty much a meat, no sides and or hamburger and hotdogs...YUCK! Several people were complaining. Desserts were the same every single day and not good either. Oh well, enough about the food!

 

One more thing about dinning, everyday, no matter at lunch or dinner the head staff would argue in Italian, to the point you thought they were going to fight..I am not even joking, it was a show in itself.

 

The staff never once come by to ask if we needed anything? Room attendant left garbage and cleaning supplies in hall by our room and others rooms, the entire cruise, we had to go around it each day in the hall. 

 

The pillows were awful, we had to get 4 additional pillows, and slept on three each...they were so flat. The bed was hard.

Balcony's were small!

 

We never understood a word the captain said each day. We never got our daily activities the first day, and cabin attendant would leave it each day at 9 p.m the rest of the days.

 

When you board this ship, you are on your own, don't expect any customer service. 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Paper thin steak, bad food..good pizza!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Entertainment was best I ever seen!

Service and Staff

1 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
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15 Comments

Mike921    8 years ago

Your review is spot on. We couldn't wait to get off the ship. We have been on over 30 cruises and we agree with you 100%. We realize it's never going to be perfect and expect somethings not to be that way.

Sean2102    8 years ago

Worst ship I been on to

Kristy2    8 years ago

My husband and I had a wonderful experience on the Divina! We can't wait to go back. The only issue we had were the rude passengers that were never pleased no matter what. It is what you make out of it. If you nit pick everything you will have an awful cruise.

jacquiert    8 years ago

Don't get me wrong, guys. MSC D is a great ship. The staff experience is the problem. I've been on more than 25 cruises and prefer longer cruises...not hiding from anyone just enjoying my retirement...

mrniehaus    8 years ago

I love MSC. I love the Divinia.

bilshup    8 years ago

I am on the boat right now for my 3rd trip and that has not been my experience. Quite the opposite. But then again 18 days on any ship is not my thing, unless I was trying to hide from somebody for awhile.

riverrat68    8 years ago

Jac, I can't imagine being on this boat for 18 days. I bet ya did feel like jumping and swimming to anywhere but there. I wish MSC would just train staff, and also get better food, that would make huge difference. It's hard to believe such a beautiful ship has no customer service...

riverrat68    8 years ago

Lesley, I am the most easy person in world to please. I go camping regularly, catch fish, cook on campfire, and live in middle of the Northern Plains, 4 hrs from a mall. I never ever EVER complain, and it takes a lot of bad for me to say anything negative, because I rather think positive. 

I do however expect minimum service on cruise. I expect some customer service instead of rude crew staff. I expect decent food other than pizza. None of this is exaggerated, I wish it were! I did state the positives, which were the ship is beautiful, the pools were great, and the entertainment was great. This was not an MSC bashing review!

 

I will stick with Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, or Holland America from now on. I wish I had read all the negative reviews before I had booked, I would have saved my money. 

 

If you like paper thin fatty so called steak with no sides and rude service, with service carts in front of your doors all week this is the cruise for you!

lesleywootten    8 years ago

I think this is a major over exaggeration. I think a cruise is what YOU make of it. And based on what you said about your 1st day /night there that you are very hard to please. You should be thankful that you received your luggage before bedtime rather than complain that you didn't get it until after muster drill. This is common among every cruise line. My gosh there are 6,000 pieces of luggage !

jacquiert    8 years ago

Riverrat68, so sorry about your experience. I wrote a review warning people not to cruise that line...that the experience is just awful. I did the TA last November...19 days on that ship from Spain. If I could have swam faster than the ship, I would've jumped overboard 3 days into the cruise. Staff is outright rude and they make you feel like they are doing you a favor. Lesson learned, if I'm lucky enough to get a free cruise and its on that shio, I'll run away and never look back.

riverrat68    8 years ago

I just want to comment to dtuck90. No this was not our first cruise, we have been on about 7. I do understand boarding normally is not done until 1, but we were told by MSC we could start boarding at 10:30, and so we showed up on time according to what we were told.

 

Yes, on all cruises we have repeat dinners, but not to this extent!!! Not steak the size of paper! No side items served on this boat..and I am not the only review stating this. 

 

As far as balconys go, Royal Carribean has huge balconys compared to some on MSC Divina. MSC Divina should not charge balcony price for some of its balconies because you can't even put a chain on them.

 

I will never cruise MSC again. I don't like wasting my money, and I expect more from a cruise than to just get by for a week.

jacquiert    8 years ago

I did the ta from Spain...18 days...last novembet. The experience was the worst I have ever gone through but the food was great. The ship is fabulous but I won't recommend this line not even to my worst enemy.

bbhellriegel    8 years ago

I agree with your review. The best thing to eat on this cruise was the pizza. The only entertainment was in the big theater...it was good. But there was nothing else.

dtuck90    8 years ago

Was this your first cruise? It sounds like it. It's an European ship what you expect? I've been on several cruises and on all of them we have never got to our cabin before 1. You shouldn't have went on the ship so early. Dinner is always the same and the balconies aren't supposed to be big.=

ChristinaZ1    8 years ago

Sorry you had such a bad experience!

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