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MSC Grandiosa Cruise Review to South America

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 17

Overall rating:

2.3 out of 5
Verified Review
MSC Grandiosa

7 Night South America (Santos Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 16, 2024

Ship: MSC Grandiosa

Cabin number: 12125

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 months ago

Review summary

Our first and last cruise with MSC. After 34 cruises with NCL, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Princess, Holland. We love cruising and due to service, quality of food and hospitality management this was the worst cruise ever. We cruised with other 3 couples and they all got sick and sorry, was their first cruise.

Embarkation

3 out of 5
Slow and confusing

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Unhealthy crowded Buffett, serious cleaning issues: no one spraying our hands, , dirty pieces of food around serving trays, one chef making omelets at once for customers, sharing pieces, dirty tables and floors very few staff. No service by the pool, no waiters. Had to go on a long line order drinks from all bars on the cruise, give our name and be yelled at when drink was ready. Awful!!! Main dining room breakfast no eggs benedict, only one type of omelet(ham and chees),almost raw bacon, watery yogurt. Fruits on this cruise:wartermelon,melon,orange and banana. No kiwi. mangos,pineapple,berries etc. Main Dining staff was nice but overworked and happy to leave that ship with terrible, unhealthy and unsafe food.

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Main pool Music is soooo loud. DJ at adult area pool only played the same loud music everyday, we couldn't relax or read a book

Entertainment

2 out of 5
Shows are like high school play. The "special" show was not special at all.

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Zero to none. Thanks Caio Menezes, he gladly helped us almost daily trying to open our cabin door and helped our request to leave sliding door of our balcony shut in order to get a cool cabin after cleaning our cabin. He also sent us a bottle of wine and canapes

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
Very dirty Buffet, cabin cleaning improved after tipping, no toiletry, no wash cloths or tissue. Common bathrooms are no as clean as expected. Bottles, cocktail glasses all over the floors

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ports of call

Santos (Sao Paulo), Brazil

3 out of 5

Buzios, Brazil

3 out of 5

Salvador De Bahia, Brazil

4 out of 5

Maceio, Brazil

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
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7 Comments

Emi67     26 days ago

I had nearly 20 cruises in the last 20ys, most of them with MSC and NEVER complain about food !regarding the Cleaning issues I suppose it was just a matter of how you consider CLEAN, and honestly after pandemic there is a lot of people that is going maniac about it, mainly the pluri-vaxed, unfortunately for them…

cpd407     28 days ago

Sorry, you had such a bad cruise. Thanks for sharing

cruising2004     7 months ago

Sorry you and your friends had a terrible experience.

Gwbigdog     7 months ago

Thanks for sharing

PerkyGranna     7 months ago

Do people ever consider they could be getting sick from all the germs on the airplanes and, in turn, they are the ones spreading the others getting sick? Hmmm. Food for thought.

HeavySeas     7 months ago

Wow....thanks for sharing

javawoody     7 months ago

Did you get sick?