sawyer68 Cruise Review on MSC Divina on Apr 08, 2017

Item: MSC Divina
Rating: 3
Author: sawyer68

MSC Divina Cruise Review

sawyer68

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 6

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

Sail date: April 08, 2017

Ship: MSC Divina

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Hey everyone. We had a great cruise despite me being ill. Spent most of the first two days in the room with a high temperature. This being our third Divina cruise I will compare it to the others. Being sick doesn't affect my opinion as everyone in the group felt the same. Ship was beautiful and clean. Shows were great. Darren needs a few new jokes. Haha. Had to fight to get reservation changed for the third time. Documents said late dining but was assured by our Msc rep, I booked directly, that we had early dining. Checked in and told differently. This happened each cruise. Had to spend 90 minutes in a lineup to get it changed. Staff were great with the exception of our dining room. They are under staffed. We didn't have room on our table to eat. They didn't remove empty plates from first course or the wine glass and couldn't get a drink of water. Had to keep telling him. Water please with no luck. The buffet at night was awful. Very limited choice I though. However was great during the day and breakfast despite the crowds. The pool bars were busy and people were frustrated. I didn't find that too bad myself but others were vocal about it to the staff. Need a few more servers I think. Chairs are reserved very early. Room was cleaned well each day. Great to see that the sports pub food is now free. It wasn't in the past. Disappointed with the main pool during the sail away as the area where kids play didn't have water. This caused the inside and outside pool to be crowded. Staff said it will be filled tonight. Don't make sense. Last two times it was filled when we got there and kids had a ball. Rear pool was closed as well on sail away day. Wasn't last time. I think it opened later in the evening. Muster stations need to have air conditioning on bust prior to the life jacket drill. We were sweating and it was stuffy. Older people seemed very uncomfortable. Still think the speakers are way too high in volume during the games etc. Maybe I'm old.. The medical staff were great and I was given meds for about a 100 fee. All in all I give it a 3 out of five. The previous times I gave it a 5 and a 4. I can see how first timers will go either way. I will still recommend the ship as the value is great and the good far out weigh the bad. Looking forward to the seaside next April 14. Already booked.

5 Comments

cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Thanks for the review.

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partybuddy781 7 years ago

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sawyer68 7 years ago

We had great service the first two times. This time however it wast good. Same server and same problems each evening. He needed a helper as he couldn't keep up. He was pleasant though.

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harlyri11323146 7 years ago

We cruised Divina 2/11 a party of 8 and had awesome dinner service, we booked Fantistica and requested and got early seating

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mateodavid70 7 years ago

Sorry you had to be sick for the beginning of your cruise. We had the same problem with our dining time preference. I think in the end we actually ended up liking having late dining after all. I'mâ glad we didn't have to go to guest services to change it, though. The Seaside sounds like it's going to be awesome.

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