Beautiful ship and a great cruise

MSC Seaside Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 45

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5
MSC Seaside

7 Night Western Caribbean & Bahamas (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 21, 2019

Ship: MSC Seaside

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 13242

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Beautiful ship , good food , drinks choices excellent, if not in a drinks package the cocktails wouldn’t be worth it

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Seemless

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
The fine dinning was Ok no great thou as we were on 14 days and ate there 4 times service was very attentive but food quality was disappointing, I’m sure if we liked seafood it would have been perfect, the buffet was better deck 8 had more choice than deck 16 ,breakfast was ok , donuts looked good but were terrible ,American bacon only , breads were amazing, only fried eggs or hard boiled eggs , continental breakfast choices were good. Lunchtime , was the best ,plenty choices , for me the ethnic area was the best as well has the carvery , breads and soups were very good , the sweets all look great but very bland . Noticed that they had mac n cheese and soft serve ice cream on deck 16 but none on deck 8. Dinner ;similar to lunchtime but a bit more limited due to the fine dining timings

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
The pools are seawater?? Don’t know the reason why that is? Fitness centre can get very busy in the morning

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Daytime entertainment was excellent, recommend everyone to get involved , nobody knows you and you bring the inner child out in you!!, the shows were good. For me the Peter punk show was better than starwalker but they were the best shows, the animation/pool entertainment team were excellent , best karaoke ever

Children's Programs

Adults only

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Madelena and ketut were the best waitresses for us

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Beautiful ship , great design apart from not being able to see the front of the ship, very clean but can see around the pool area deteriorating, I feel the main deck on 16 must be metal under the finish as it gets too hot too quick

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Very clean great steward , first time inside , it makes you get out of the room quicker as there is no point in lingering in it , no chocolate on pillow ( could have left a taster to get vinichi chocolate bar) and no towel animals , also not impressed that all movies had to be paid for , celebrity ship movies had free and paid movies

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5
It’s Miami ,great

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

4 out of 5
Too much hassle from local taxi drivers

George Town, Grand Cayman

1 out of 5
Too much hassle from local taxi drivers

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
Too much hassle from local taxi drivers

Nassau, Bahamas

4 out of 5
Too much hassle from local taxi drivers

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
Long long queues
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2 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

NJCruiseGuy    5 years ago

Seems like you had the same issue in every port. Just ignore the taxi drivers and keep walking if you aren’t interested.

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