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MSC Seaview Cruise Review

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 36

Overall rating:

2.8 out of 5
MSC Seaview

16 Night Msc Grand Voyages (Rio De Janeiro To Barcelona)

Sail date: March 28, 2024

Ship: MSC Seaview

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 11129

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 7 months ago

Review summary

Not an experience I wish to repeat. Unorganized, not clean

Embarkation

1 out of 5
Utter confusion. Took 3 hours. For some people with priority boarding, it took longer!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Meh, at best.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Not a lot to do. I did enjoy the dance classes. The games were silly. The pools were too deep to stand in, but too small to swim in. The gym was really good.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Bizzare best sums up the nightly theatre experience. One night the show was even called Bizzare.

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
The staff was friendly and appeared to be hard working. But as much as they appeared to be cleaning, nothing really got cleaned.

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
The "yacht club" forced everyone else to mostly use one set of elevators. The marketplace buffet was disgusting. Multiple times, I reached for a clean plate from the stack, and got a greasy, unwashed plate. The clean napkins had crud on them. The tables were always dirty, even after being cleaned. The chairs were just filthy, in need of shampoo.

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5
The size and layout of the cabin was fairly typical. But I had to sit at an angle on the toilet, because it was partially obstructed by the sink. There was a layer of dust on everything, and it never went away, despite being cleaned every day. The telephone was covered in something. I had to clean it myself, just to make required call after watching the safety video. My.sheets.were.never.changed.during.the.entire.16.night.journey!

Ship tip

Don't dismiss other people's negative reviews, thinking that just because they had a bad experience doesn't I will have a bad experience, I'm not that fussy, they had unrealistic expectations, blah, blah, blah. I had read/watched the reviews and thought it couldn't be that bad. It was worse.

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

4 out of 5

Salvador De Bahia, Brazil

3 out of 5

Ilheus, Brazil

3 out of 5

Maceio, Brazil

3 out of 5

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

5 out of 5

Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Was better organized and didn't take too long. I was so happy to be off the ship.
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6 Comments

javawoody     7 months ago

Sorry you were disappointed

Gwbigdog     7 months ago

Thanks for sharing

HeavySeas     7 months ago

Thanks for sharing

ericbran     7 months ago

Thanks for sharing MSC.I hope they look at the reviews and learn to step their game up to help them be a better company..

Zod14     7 months ago

So sorry that you didn't enjoy the ship and the cruise. However, I am not surprised...a lot of bad reviews about MSC

cruising2004     7 months ago

Sorry this cruise was a disappointment.