bigcrtt03 Cruise Review on MSC Divina on Dec 02, 2017

Item: MSC Divina
Rating: 4
Author: bigcrtt03

MSC Divina Cruise Review

bigcrtt03

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Reviews: 5

Helpful Votes: 40

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

Sail date: December 02, 2017

Ship: MSC Divina

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

This is our fourth cruise on the MSC Divina. That embarkation process went very smoothly. We checked at about 3 p.m. there was really no line at all, the US custom employees as well as MSC employees very were very courteous and helpful. They verify your ID and the reservation take your picture issue you a sign and sail all very efficiently. They have two kiosk on this ship where are you can activate your sign and sail card this is great so you don't have to wait in line at the service desk and it decreases time with check in. After that we went to our room dropped off our carry-on luggage and went up to the buffet for lunch. Shortly after that we went down for the muster drill. The problem there was by the time we got back to our rooms got our life jackets and got to the muster station the drill was over. Their needs to be more time between the announcement and the actual drill. The ship is very clean and beautiful and the rooms are spacious. One thing of note you will need to bring your own pillow as theirs are very flat. My wife and I find the mattress to be comfortable. A complaint some people have is you have to have a card and place to activate your room lighting when did interior lighting is on there's also a small light outside your door that comes on to let your cabin Steward know you are in the room. The do not disturb and clean the room sign also fit and this activation slot as well as in the slot outside your door, we use at to alert this room stored as to win the room needs to be clean and when we are in and do not want to be disturbed. This worked very well for us. The lightning in the room is good except for the two lights beside your bed do not light up very well and have no dimmers on them so it would be very hard to use them to read at night in bed. You would have to turn the main Lighting on which might disturb your partner if they were trying to sleep. We had a balcony stateroom which was very spacious with a lot of storage for our clothes. The room has a couch a chair and an ottoman as well as two twin beds that can be converted to a king size bed. The couch does not convert into a bed. I think on cruise lines that a convertible bed might be a safety issue. There are a lot of areas on the ship to enjoy Mini clubs, bars restaurants a beautiful Spa area as well as a nice gym. Everything everywhere it's clean and nice. They have an outdoor Court for sports basketball soccer Etc. They have a nice Disco for your dancing pleasure. They have wonderful European coffee in most of the bars great expresso and cappuccino. And I find that the coffee served in the dining rooms to be very good as well. The Italian gelato is great it's only served in one place on the 14th floor. We tried to eat our breakfast and dinner in the formal dining room although the choice of food is much more limited there compared to the buffet. We find the atmosphere to be nicer there and the meal was much more relaxing. The ship was very full and the buffet can be very hectic most of the time. The formal dining room is only open for lunch on sea days. Overall we find the buffet food to be good . The American food has gotten a whole lot better since our first cruise on the Divina in 2013. But the Mediterranean food was better. It seems they're trying to change it some for the American taste. Although I think Americans only make up about one quarter two one third of the ship's passengers. I wish they would have left the Mediterranean food as it was. I spoke with a few European guest on the ship that said they like the Mediterranean food on the MSC European cruises better. But I have to say that the hamburgers and hot dogs have gotten a whole lot better since our first cruise. The pizza is still good but they changed the pepperoni if not as good as it was, It was good quality Italian pepperoni before. Why do they have to go and mess up a good thing just to save a buck here and there. The food in the sports bar is not a up charge this is nice. It's a place where you might be able to catch at football game. They only have ESPN 2 and a Caribbean version of ESPN so you won't get to see that Big Ten championship game between Ohio State and Wisconsin what a bummer. There was a NCAA football game on that night the one featuring the University of Miami of course . You can catch an NFL game as well as soccer games in the sports bar have a appetizer, Burger or fish and chips. It also has a mini bowling alley in it which is which is a nice touch. There's a nice big movie screen out on the main Lido deck but there needs to be better and more movies out there. We don't need to watch full length info commercials about MSC. Much less advertisements about MSC, we are already on board the ship you don't have to sell it to us. The evening entertainment was good especially the Michael Jackson salute and the show called witches were both excellent. Although a comedy club would be great. Europeans don't like comedy? The main attraction I find on this ship is that I get to relax a lot and that's what I go on vacation for so it works out very well for me. We we're on a back to back Cruise this process went very smoothly. We disembarked from the ship well except MSC lost one piece of our luggage. We will see how that goes, we did purchase the travel insurance. Overall we had a good experience on the Divina and it was a good vacation. I hope that cruising with MSC will continue to be enjoyable .

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Gwbigdog 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

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cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Thanks for the review.

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Thomas4 6 years ago

Nice to see that you enjoyed your vacation. Hopefully I will experience the same in a few weeks😃 can’t wait to be there😃😃😃

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