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OK, including the entrance fees it is a different story, I thought it only was the shuttle. "Interesting" they raised the entrance from 4 to 40 Euros. Celebrity is a different story, if you not book their excursions with 50% off during Black Friday sale 😉

Sorry, I did not see any and I am not sure if they allowed to enter the port area. You better check the situation when embarking.

Wow, that is crazy expensive for 17 or 18 km. Best is to walk away a few meters from the port and then show you negotiation skills. Not too easy as the people there see cruise passengers as idiots or at least very easy victims.

With our last two MSC cruises in November 23 and May 24 in mind, I have to say that it went down to zero in Europe also 😞 Celebrity (!) provided a lot of great music in January 24. Europe goes goes down the drain in so many ways, really sad to see.

That is ambitious, you better take taxi. Otherwise it is a 1 km walk from the port exit to the bus stop (Garibaldi-V.Emanuele) and then 25 minutes by bus number 16. We got off in Bari a few weeks before, it was most relaxed, but I cannot tell you when disembarking started, we were sleeping at this time and at 11:00 it was totally straightforward. But it was very early.

20€ per day is the usual "best" offer in all markets I have seen. That does not mean, that a 10 € per day does not exist, but nobody should expect to get it.

Absolutely not.

Absolutely impossible. MSC will never rethink this. And the problem port is Southampton, not Rotterdam, because it is not a Schengen port and causes all kinds of trouble. But UK market is too important I guess.

The "No" in my reply was related to "Maybe that's changed" 😉

No, cruise ships never dock at the new port, always tender to the old habour far away. Since many many years.

The mini fridge has beer, water and soft drinks, for wine it is best to help yourself, that means bring unfinished bottles from dinner to the room. Espresso is cheap (around 2 USD), cappuccino is expensive (around 4 USD).

As you know you cannot call them, you mailed them and have to wait. Sometimes they react, sometimes not. Five days is not really long.

Absolutely no problem to change his card to your room. Do this BEFORE he gets his kids bracelet. The kids bracelet is mandatory, has nothing to do with these bracelets you can buy. Yes correct, done this many times. I am not sure about the Mera, but you are aware that the European Championship starts next weekend and soon after the Copa America? Usually MSC uses the theater for the matches then and no more regular shows. If the shows continue, booking with the app one or two days before should be enough. Pretty hard to make the decision for myself, impossible to say what is best for you 🙂

In Europe the gratuities are included in the price because they cannot be removed. You have to pay them before boarding otherwise no boarding. As long as they are not mandatory in the US, MSC maybe will not include them to show lower prices.

Welcome to the first world, USA.