I’m confident that you will have a great time in the YC on the Seascape. I was also worried about the negative reviews posted about MSC and specifically the Seaside and Seascape. My wife and I just got back from a B2B deluxe balcony on deck 12, fantastica experience. The only thing I would do different is book 2 separate cruises because I could have upgraded to the Aurea experience for the second week. The repetitive shows in the theatre weren’t much of a problem for us since it allowed us to check out the shows in La Cabare Rouge and we found these to be better for us.
We found the buffet food comparable to other large ship cruise lines, specifically Royal and Norwegian. We love a good cheese pizza and theirs was really good. I find that the people that complain the most are not willing to discover the timing of the operations of the ship with the passengers that are onboard that week. We don’t like packed and lines so we checked the hours of operation for what we wanted and adjusted our schedule accordingly. We personally loved sleeping in, grabbing a quick lunch, going to the port to shop, come back for early dinner and then go to the shows and be back for late night pizza and tea at 10.
We are early diners and the service at the 5:15 time slot in the MDR was amazing and the food was good. Again comparable to other large cruise lines. The food in the Butchers Cut was very good. When you book B2B you get a 30% off coupon for a la carte dining and I would spring for that definitely. Then go to the dining room in the YC for dessert (but I’m cheap to a fault).