The cruise was okay.

Item: MSC Grandiosa
Rating: 3
Author: kutefairy

MSC Grandiosa Cruise Review to Europe - Western Mediterranean

kutefairy

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 11

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

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7 Night Western Mediterranean (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 23, 2024

Ship: MSC Grandiosa

Cabin number: 10124

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 months ago

Review summary

Overall, the ship is new and clean, instateroom is spacious. Staffs are nice and polite. Food and activities are very limited. Very limited announcements and most of the time I can't understand what they are saying in English from the announcements.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

It was okay and smooth

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

We got great service with our wonderful waiter, Kim from the main dining room. He provided us with great suggestions. Buffet was Medicore with limited choices, like regular salad, breads pizza and dessert selections. It covers only water, any other drinks like soda, juices and coffee needs to pay extra.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

On board activities are kind of similar to hotel stay, it includes gym and pool. Everything else is extra charges very limited choices.

Entertainment

2 out of 5

The 30 mins night shows are mostly singing and dancing by the same performers. The only one we like is the BIZZARE, which is closed to the mini production of Broadway show.

Children's Programs

1 out of 5

My teenager daughter and nieces were bored for the entire stay. They wanted to go to the slides and rope courses on the top floor and was told they can only access with youth yatch membership. Only to the last day, they found it was opened to everyone, but it was too late for them to experience it.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Staffs are great and polite with greetings everytime we passed by.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabins were like a maze to find our room on 1st day. This is the most clean ship and the instateroom is quite roomie for 2 compare to the previous ones we did.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Bed and pillows are comfortable and very clean.

Ship tip

This ship doesn't give you any announcements regarding time changes when they dock at Tunisia, if you signed up for excursions thru MSC for the meeting point. Make sure you aware. Their arrival and leaving times always have conflict that shows on the cabin TV and their apps, it also changes in the morning. For example, the apps shows the arrival time to Marseille is 10 and leaving at 21:30 the night before, the next morning, it changed to 8:30 arrival time and leaving 18:30. No announcements made for this as well. So if you plan to leave the ship to explore the city on your own, please be aware.

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