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sidari

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  1. A report on FB claims the ship has been sold to the Aliaga shipyard for scrapping.
  2. With MSC who knows if they will even tell you, Virtuosa will sail all next summer from Southampton instead of Grandiosa.
  3. There will be people who are not aware of it especially First time cruisers.
  4. I don't wonder anything about MSC any longer having +20k in points.
  5. The daily service charge is not included in the US prices nor are the port charges as they are in the UK. We had a booking via a US travel agency for a Miami cruise but had to cancel, our deposit was refunded within a few weeks.
  6. The New Tier rumour has circulated since about 2015, some people have over 50,000 points, MSC need to up their game.
  7. Once again MSC showing that the Left hand still has no idea what the Right hand is doing! Re the 3 plus 4 nights and 7 nights.
  8. If you booked via a TA they would have put the package together, Aurea no longer includes a drink package nor the massages that used to be included.
  9. Be aware that the aft lower deck may be out of bounds while heading through the Southern half of the canal, when we sailed from Venice to Dubai on Orchestra the boat deck was locked off after we left Jordan and wasn't available again until we reached Muscat in Oman due to threat of pirates from Somalia.
  10. We sailed on the Poesia 2012 TA from Barcelona to FLL, we also sailed on the First Divina TA in 2013 from Venice to Miami, MSC cut the cruise a day short so they could bring the ship in to port with no other ships there, over 1,000 US guests left the ship rather than stay onboard in Miami for two days. I believe Poesia had sailed winter itineraries from 2006 from FLL .
  11. The value appears to have gone out of the packages these days, looks like we will go back to buying as required in future.
  12. Just read on a friend's webpage that drink package prices are due to increase from August 1st in the UK. No idea if USA will follow suit.
  13. The shipyard was closed Saturday due to the smoke from a large forest fire close to the border of Italy and Slovenia.
  14. Sea trials take place from August 5th, the ship will then go into Palermo shipyard before the second part of sea trials on the way back to Monfalcone shipyard.
  15. The top has the head of a snake.
  16. Well, MSC offers you to BUY flexibility (Aurea) and even flexibility plus attitude (YC) 😇 Perakcruiser ... You may not be aware but we have sailed 10 times with MSC on 7 ships at least half in Aurea so we are well aware of how they work, paying more should not mean the service received below that level should be worse.
  17. A post on the original thread on FB asks that it is not shared because MSC have not officially announced it.
  18. Sadly this is one of the issues (Dining) that let's MSC down badly, far too inflexible and a could not care attitude by a number of members of staff. Sloping shoulders is not a good trait and instead of dealing with the issue there and then staff pass it off to others who they know cannot or will not help.
  19. Remember a Xmas cruise on Costa Deliziosa that was increased by two extra days w hitch initially caused some panic until I noticed my other half had booked an extra two days off work, there was no extra cost but the itinerary changed five times prior to sailing.
  20. Booked from Abu Dhabi to Genoa should be interesting, have sailed in the opposite direction on Orchestra from Venice to Dubai.
  21. Exactly the same on Meraviglia, though they did have a pop up bar which only had drinks for the Easy package, if you had Premium you had to go and get your own. The speakers in front of the Aurea area were booming out music all day so if you are in that area you get no piece. Sailed on Seaside twice and the sundeck and bar for the Aurea area is far superior to the Meraviglia class which as Hamrag says is a shambles.
  22. Seems crazy to issue points after 10,000 because there is no use for them.
  23. We sailed on the first Mii sailing of Seaside in one of the Aft Aurea Suites, a few months later we sailed in one of the Deck 9 forward Aurea cabins with the larger balconies, had no issues other than the storage problem of the smaller wardrobe. We turned up at any time for Dinner and never had to wait and were seated by the windows at the back of the ship. At the time Aurea came with a drink package that we had upgraded to include the minibar, the Top 18 with it's bar was great. Not sure that the value is there now without the drink package.
  24. John ... They are about as useful as a Chocolate Fire Guard ... 😂
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