Family cruise on MSC Seaside

MSC Seaside Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

tmac1052

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 32

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 16, 2019

Ship: MSC Seaside

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Beautiful Ship, easy to navigate. Our 6 grandsons loved the cruise. Theater shows excellent!! Waiters excellent. Negatives were Bar service (5000 customers aboard, if you can't provide top service, Don't offer drink package incentive). Cruise industry is changing, less attention to customers, more attention to getting more people on ships.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Quick service, attendant could have more personality/ or at least smiled

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Food was very good at main dining area and buffet, service was great. I had six grandsons, the waiters made us feel at home.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Activities were good

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Theater shows were excellent, our family of 12 loved them all. Great production team.

Children's Programs

4 out of 5

I had 6 grandsons ages 9 and under, they had many activities, but there was enough things to do on decks, my grandkids didn't use the kids program much, but it was available if needed.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Waiters at main dining were outstanding, taking care of our group of 12 every evening at 5:15 seating.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Ship's layout was good. Cleanliness around pool deck could use improvement keeping up with dirty plates/glasses.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Just average

Ship tip

Beware of poor bar service. We had a drink package, but average time waiting at bar was 20 minutes for service. not enough servers, day 5, ra. Out of straws and bar server said he didn't have any.. customers getting tropical drinks and no straws. Never saw a supervisor monitoring service.

Thumbs up

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

No excursion, but spending time at bayside ma4ket is awesome

Thumbs Up 6

San Juan, Puerto Rico Did not visit port

Only night time available, not great for families

Thumbs Up 0

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Did not visit port

We stayed on ship

Thumbs Up 0

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

4 out of 5

Went to simpson bay, was ok. We originally signed up for orient bay before cruise, got our excursion ticket and it said beach outing but didn't say where, the person at excursion didn't know what beach we were going to, because we found out due to hurricane, orient beach was closed.

Thumbs Up 1

Disembarkation

4 out of 5

Just ok

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