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MSC Seaside Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 26

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
MSC Seaside

7 Night Eastern Caribbean & Bahamas (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 29, 2018

Ship: MSC Seaside

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 10218

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

My husband and I went for our 20th anniversary and we had an amazing time. So relaxing and beautiful.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
We went to the main restaurant once and enjoyed the food, but the buffet had such great fresh food and was sooo good that we opted for the buffet for every meal. The food was great! The only suggestion I would have would be to somehow label all the dining rooms surrounding the buffet so that you could remember where you were sitting. Also when my husband and I went into the buffet area it would have been nice to be able to say I will meet you in the “A”. Dining room, instead we spent a lot of time looking for each other and then we would have to find a place to sit. The buffet is huge! One other suggestion I would make.....Whenever my husband and I would get up to go back to the buffet we would often come back to our spot already being cleared off and somebody else sitting there. (The waiters were absolutely just doing their job). So we would often have to go up to the buffet one at a time so that we would not lose our table and end up having to search for each other again. (Maybe have tent cards that say occupied???)

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5
The theatre shows were amazing! They costumes were beautiful and the performances were top notch. The lounge performers were mediocre.

Children's Programs

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
The staff were always helpful. They could have used more “wait” staff around the pool area and in the lounges. I would often see other people give the waiter/waitress attitude for taking so long, but that wasn’t a customer service issue, that was a staffing issue. Poor staff were often unappreciated by the other people.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The size exceeded my expectations for a Cruise. Everything was perfect, clean, nicely laid out and a lot of storage. We would have loved an in room coffee maker. Even though coffee is available 24/7 at the buffet and you can order room service for coffee in the morning.... it would have been nice to just have one available. As well there are no drinking cups in the room so if you want a drink in the middle of the night you would have to go downstairs to the buffet to get a cup. We finally brought a couple of cups to leave in our room but housekeeping was too efficient and would remove them when they cleaned your room. (Just have to make sure to put them away somewhere so they know that you want them to stay in the room)

Ship tip

Bring a lot of fancy clothes. In the evenings about 80% of the guests were dressed in either semi formal or formal attire. My husband and I always felt under dressed in the evenings.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

4 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

3 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Had to be out of the rooms by 7:45am. Itotally understand why....they need to get ready for the next group, but I would have loved to sleep in for my final day.
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6 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

CruiselineSarah    6 years ago

Great review, I was on this same sailing! Tinalouise71, the evening shows were amazing. The best I've ever seen on a cruise ship and I'd recommend going to all of them if you can.

happycruising12    6 years ago

The shows in the theatre were great. Different shows every night but some similar acts within the show. They had different themed nights in the lounges as well. The had a white party. 70’’s party, Great Gatsby night. A lot of people dressed up for the white party and the Great Gatsby. My husband and I weren’t really into the themed nights at all but a lot of other people seemed to enjoy them.

Tinalouise71    6 years ago

Just curious, how was the entertainment on the ship? We the shows good?

GospelCruiser    6 years ago

Happy Anniversary!!!

RNS247    6 years ago

thx for the review

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