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MSC Opera Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 25

Overall rating:

1 out of 5
MSC Opera

14 Night Eastern Mediterranean & Black Sea (Venice Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 14, 2015

Ship: MSC Opera

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 7059

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

If you're an experienced cruiser, you will be greatly disappointed. If its your first cruise, you will be unfairly turned off. If you are expecting great food, excellent service, outstanding entertainment.....don't choose European MSC. They are a HUGE disappointment. Food is cold, bland, poorly cooked/served in buffet. Seated meals are VERY slow, as in 45 min one day to get breakfast. Took 20+ min to flag someone/anyone down for drinks and another 20 to actually receive. If you go to bar to get drinks (due to lack of service) you get poor attitudes. Entertainment is very poor...one duo the male played polka music on a elec keyboard while the female played mariachi?? WHAT?

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
very poor, bland, little choice, same

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Very poor to no service

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
typical cabin. clean, very small bathroom. Decent, unobstructed view.

Ports of call

Venice, Italy

5 out of 5

Bari, Italy

5 out of 5

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

5 out of 5

Constanta, Romania

3 out of 5
very little so see/do...not worth a visit

Sochi, Russian Federation Did not visit port

Fairly new city. Nothing but hotels to see and talk about.

Istanbul, Turkey

5 out of 5

Mykonos, Greece

5 out of 5

Santorini, Greece

5 out of 5

Cephalonia, Greek Isle

3 out of 5
City destroyed and rebuild in the 50's. Not much to see/do

Dubrovnik, Croatia

5 out of 5
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