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LucaWSV Cruise Review on MSC Meraviglia on Apr 28, 2019

MSC Meraviglia Cruise Review

Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 20

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
MSC Meraviglia

7 Night Baltic (Copenhagen Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 28, 2019

Ship: MSC Meraviglia

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

The ship is really nice. There are so many things to do... But there are a lot of things that are really bad: -Welcome back cocktail: We got an invitation for the welcome back cocktail with the Captain which was planned for 11 AM. We arrived at 10:30 and we're already able to sit down in the bar after the crew checked our cards. 5 minutes later one if the managers came and kicked us out of the bar because they still had to do some preparation. At 11 AM we were able to get in the bar again after they have changed absolutely nothing. Than the manager said that the captain isn't able to come and that a new ship is build at the moment. THAT IT WAS!!! -Safety drill: Before the safety drill we saw on the safety channel that we don't need to bring our cruise card if we have an MSC for me bracelet. So did we. When the crew wanted to scan our card (which we didn't have with us) they said they need our card. After some discussion they said that it is okay. 50 minutes later they began with telling how the lifejacket work in FIVE!!! different languages. We never saw our own lifejacket because they are at the assembly station but nobody told us... - Everything is 18+: A lot of things are 18+ for example: -Karaoke ,-Quiz ,-The absolute top location of the ship The problem is that you can't see it anywhere before your cruise and even if you could this still is pure discrimination - Disembarking: At MSC you get an sticker for your luggage and your cruise card with a certain color. Than you get told when you have to be at Wich place to leave the ship with a small group of people. So did we... We were in the Casino at 10:40 (we had to be there at 10:45) at 11:05 I decided to ask at the reception why nobody is coming. There they told me that our group already left and we should just leave the ship too. -Excursion: We made 2 excursions in ST. Petersburg and the first one was the worst I ever made. The information about the excursion was that we will explore the metro system of the city and spend some time at the nicest market hall if the city and can try some things there. After that we make a photo stop at a cathedral. What actually happened: We spended 2 hours in the metro system where the guide told us to be careful EVERYTIME there were stairs... And said every 20 seconds to be careful with the doors of the trains... Well, she got a point there because if the doors close you can do nothing about it. 6 People tried to stop a door from closing Wich didn't work, so somebody got lost. Then the guide wanted to know if everybody is still there but forgot how many people we are, so we just left. After that we went to the market hall where the guide told to not to buy anything because the quality is very bad... We had 15 minutes minutes time. Some people tried to use the toilet but was impossible to use it.. it was just a hole in the ground with an 1 meter high door. And at the end of course we haven't done the photo stop. As you can see there are a lot of bad things. Bad at this point I also want to mention that a lot of things are great. For example the partys and most of the normal staff.. I want to give special thanks to Asman and Septian Sektadi which were just great. All in all I think this was my last MSC cruise in the next time...
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3 Comments

LucaWSV    5 years ago

I understand that it looks like it was all bad, Wich it definitely wasn't, but these are the things that were really annoying and I never experienced before...
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LucaWSV    5 years ago

What exactly is unclear to you? For me it is discrimination if they forbid things for minors without ANY reason why. Even if you ask them why they just say that each ship can decide it itself...
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ryanaubin    5 years ago

Discrimination? Right... I mean no offense, but your review is highly, highly subjective and I would argue just over all complainy. I gained no insight from it at all.
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