The cruise was nice

Item: MSC Seaside
Rating: 3.9
Author: moniquelong

MSC Seaside Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

moniquelong

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 40

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5

7 Night Eastern Caribbean & Bahamas (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 03, 2019

Ship: MSC Seaside

Cabin type: Suite

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

It would be very nice if you guys could actually have a night club for teenagers a dance night club. More bowling lanes and more arcade games to do stuff. The teenage Clubhouse was way too small one TV not enough activities or TVs for people to play video games. This was the most to disappointing thing because I Picked thisnship especially for my son

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Good

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

The desserts were horrible every single night I have to say. Food in the buffet was not good. Regular desserts like chocolate chip cookies apple pie’s normal desserts would’ve been nice

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

The zip lining was something we expected to do that’s why I booked on the ship and it was closed because the weather the entire trip. The pools were way too packed

Bowling

1 out of 5

Having only two lanes with thousands of people on a cruise ship is ridiculous. You have to add way more lanes

Entertainment

5 out of 5

This was great

Children's Programs

2 out of 5

The teenage club it was so small I can’t believe that you expect to have a ship with a whole bunch of teenagers on it and have them fit into that little room. That was the most disappointing thing of the ship to be honest. Also that there was only two bowling lanes we never were able to get onto the bowling lanes. I booked this cruise because they said there was a teen night club there was no nightclub for teens for dancing that was extremely disappointing

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

The staff was amazing absolutely amazing very kind very nice very helpful always smiling now this was the best at the ship

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

The room was clean. The only thing that we saw that was pretty gross was the back of the bunkbed was disgusting. On the side reeling it really needed some good clean looks like a lot was put back there and the material of the upper bunk bed was very dirty in the back we could see it from our bed

Ship tip

Expect a lot of people not to speak English a lot of Europeans but everyone’s pretty nice the boat is beautiful. Just expect a very very busy boat a lot of people

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Ports of call

Miami, Florida

4 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5

It wasn’t for me

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Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

4 out of 5

Excursions were great snorkeling and hanging out at the beach

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Philipsburg, St. Maarten

4 out of 5

Saint Martin was absolutely gorgeous. I just don’t think that the ship gives enough time to hang out on the porch. It’s very disappointing I would’ve like to stay here a lot longer

Thumbs Up 4

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5

Absolutely gorgeous. Very disappointed that we did not stay on the island longer to ship does not give enough time at ports. The only bad thing that I want to complain about is getting from blue lagoon Island back to Port. Making everyone wait in the hot sun for at least 45 minutes to get on the transfer boat was horrible it was so sad my son almost fainted in the heat and the bartenders weren’t very nice about helping out people that were about to pass out

Thumbs Up 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

3 Comments

joseph763 5 years ago

Next time go a Disney cruise .. more kid oriented if that’s important you

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Kristiscraft 5 years ago

We wouldn’t bring our kids on this boat. We had seen the layout and it’s definitely not a Norwegian Cruise boat.

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moniquelong 5 years ago

I really enjoyed the ship we actually are booking for next year. It would just be very nice if someone could really look at the comments in the lower ratings on certain questions about the entertainment or food or kids clubs so things may be could be changed a little bit for the future years

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