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You said the bread was good so that's an improvement from November. The sourdough rolls were rock hard and after the 3rd night we stopped trying.

As one of the people being led upstream I can tell you it wasn't a picnic for us either. I'm convinced that was when I caught the bad head cold I came home with because that was the 1st time during the entire cruise that I was in the middle of a crowd. After that experience I cancelled my 2 MSC cruises for next year. I lost money but I am not about to gamble a few thousand more for poor service and grocery store wine while paying YC rates. I'm doing Celebrity this week and if the expectations aren't met then I will have to stop cruising for a while. Its sad. This will be my 31st cruise on over 6 lines since 1988.

I sailed this ship for Thanksgiving and them not having Sav Blanc the 1st day was a huge red flag for the rest of the trip. I also asked for a wine list....I'm still waiting to see it.

Hi, keep checking but I think they start about 6 months before.

@Essiesmom I agree with the playing of the long hair. I guess because they paid a lot for it they want to make sure it's still there because it seems people with real hair don't touch it but extensions or wigs are constantly being stroked like a cat. I mimic them by stroking my invisible long hair. It emphasis how they look when they do it.

So I was able to snag the unlimited dining package during the black Friday sale. Is there any way to make the reservations before boarding? I've tried calling the Captains club with no luck (I'm Elite Plus).

Ship: Constellation Length of Cruise: 6nights Cruise Sail Date: 12/22/23 Date email offer received: Do not recall Captain’s Club Tier: Elite Plus Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: Celebrity while onboard then transferred to agent Current Cabin: Aqua Suite Bid? Yes/No: Yes If YES - Bidding Details: Cabin Category: Aqua Sky Suite, Sky Suite, Celebrity Suite Bid Offer: $890, $695. $800 (barely above minimum bids). Notification Date: 12/12/23 (10 days before departure) Accepted / Rejected: Aqua Sky Suite (Accepted)

If someone is using their phone on speaker in public then I naturally assume they want others to be involved in the call as well. Therefore I chime in with answers, advice, snorts of laughter and plenty of questions. That is also an invitation for me to start playing Cotton Eyed Joe on my phone at full volume.

I matched to MSC gold but didn't receive a single loyalty related invite or gift.

Live reports from Seashore YC are still reporting bad service 2 weeks later. I cancelled my other 2 MSC cruises for next year and I booked RCCL in a regular balcony cabin and I will probably still have better service than my 1 YC trip.

I got off Seashore on the 26th with a head cold. Pretty much summed up the entire cruise.

I know right? I received my 1st and only BC offer a few months ago for a free inside cabin which I grabbed. I got the 2nd BC offer the other day and saw it was only $50 off. Why even bother?

@Best Cat Mom Unfortunately our cruise was very disappointing and we did not get the YC service that we had expected. This was on Seashore which is consistently getting bad reviews. This was my first MSC and now my last. I had 2 booked for next year that I cancelled because I'm not going to spend over $6k for a substandard experience and "hope" that it will be good.

@jean87510 we were docked until 9pm. But if the other bars were still open there is no excuse why YC bar would be closed. You pay extra for YC and they close the bar early? That's some BS.

Well I doubt the bar was still open after 2:30 since all of the crew packed up and left, regardless of what that paper said.

And the bar closes at 2pm. You cannot even get water.

Maybe they were fake cakes made out of cardboard.

I have 2 MSC YC booked for next year. Still deciding whether to keep or cancel.

I'll be on Connie for the Christmas cruise so I'm following along with high hopes. I just got off an MSC in Yacht class and was definitely disappointed.

We had a HUGE cake similar to this on Seashore but I don't know what happened to it because I never saw pieces of it anywhere and it wasn't offered.

The whole reason I booked MSC was after reading all the wonderful reviews on here!! Every single review I read that compared YC to Retreat all said the same thing. "Better service, great food, exceeded our expectations, etc", the total opposite of what we had this past week. We spoke to several passengers in YC that had sailed MSC before and they were all disappointed too.

This was the 2nd cruise after the TA, they had a 3 day before ours. It did seem like they were understaffed.

Never used a service elevator on Celebrity but they had a back door from retreat lounge that took you to the deck.

That's how Celebrity does it too. It was just so awkward going against the current to get to the exit point.

So disembarkation was a hot mess. We chose to walk off with our bags so our butler takes us and 2 other passengers down the elevator to 6. Then we had to walk against traffic all the way to the middle of the ship like salmon swimming upstream. We went right up to the front of the line and gen pop was a little salty about it. So I get to the point where I have to scan my card to leave the ship and the guy says something about $19 and "go see the guy at the table". Oh for the love of all that is holy!!! I asked at the table why I was called there but he didn't speak English. Or pretended not to. So what was the purpose of me entering my credit card info on the app before I boarded the ship? All the guy did was pull up my account and then dismissed me. MSC does some dumb crap. Seriously. But the elevator override worked great as well as the wristbands. No idea who the captain or any officers were because none of that info was provided. I'm used to the captain making a daily announcement but ours never did. There was a definite lack of communication on this ship that I have never experienced before. So overall I'm very disappointed about this trip but I still enjoyed it and had a good time. I'm doing Celebrity next month but in Aqua class because Retreat was double the price of aqua. Their pricing is ridiculous. I did place a move up bid, so we'll see.