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MSC Seaside Cruise Review

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 49

Overall rating:

4.3 out of 5
MSC Seaside

7 Night Eastern Caribbean & Bahamas (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 22, 2019

Ship: MSC Seaside

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9080

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

We took the Eastern Caribbean 7 day out of Miami. The ship was amazing, not only was it beautiful, but also functional. It never really felt crowded, except embarkation day, but they all do when everyone coming aboard. We have cruised many times with Carnival and Royal Caribbean, this was much the same, but different. My wife didn't care much for MSC and I can see why, the European influence showed, however I really enjoyed it. I guess it's all in what you expect.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Food is good, better in the dining room, buffet seems to be the same thing every day, luckily they have excellent pizza.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Holy crap the shows are amazing. If you looking for a plot and series of events that makes sense, that's not them, but if your looking for an absolute amazing 40 minutes you have to check them out.

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
We had quite a few issues with our room steward. We called guest services and they treated us like we were crazy.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Hans down the most beautiful ship I've been on.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Cabin was great, didn't seem to have as much storage as a carnival cabin, but we made it work. The location was great for us as we spent a lot of time on deck 8 outside the Seaview lounge.

Ship tip

Go to the shows. They are a bit strange, but we'll worth the investment of 40 min.

Ports of call

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5
Seemed great, wish we had a bit more time here.

Miami, Florida

2 out of 5
Hate Miami, Port Canaveral and Tampa are much easier to navigate.

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Super fast, they somehow used cameras and we didn't even have to go though customs.
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4 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

FirstMateTom    5 years ago

Thanks for sharing

Sailo    5 years ago

@mikelmart I'm in 9049 and it's fore of ship port side so I'd imagine it would be somewhere close to same location.

mikelmart    5 years ago

Where was your cabin?

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