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we had snacks all day in tsl on Mera a few weeks back.

One thing they have in the restaurant is a ton of wines at the ready. Other drinks are per order and a wait. And a wait.

Welcome to CC and insights after one week.

I guess post 11and 12 first I've seen.

Lounge usually at least a solo in late afternoon into evenings. Laundry like washers and dryers? No Going to Le Muse, drop down to first encounter of pax decks, go to aft stairs, then up. Bathrooms right there too.

Makes sense now.

I guess we got lucky when we ordered a sausage pizza, not on menu, and got Jone's Dairy Farm breakfast sausage on pizza. They do offer a Supreme now with sausage but not brave enough to try. Just order the pepperoni and life good.

Apparently showing safety message after first day not a big draw.

Some of that true, others just hit or miss. As I said in a previous post, YC experience downfalls are not people generally, it is the system and setup. Captain John's review on newest ship shows improvements in next class as they have been doing, although slowly.

Right, there are a couple posts back a few pages.

I didn't spend a ton of time looking at all pay movie options or prices, but there were some for $4.99 a few weeks back on Mera. I thought that was reasonable but heck, even cheapo NCL gives around 100 ppv movies for free in Haven.

Under what conditions/offer was that from?

Don't recall what ship you are on, but Mera included internet was pretty good.

Does MSC have a Freddie level?

They actually used to have a ton of channels but vastly cut back awhile ago. They did actually add all the NFL games to in room tvs a few weeks back.

Right, Divina not around US. Our first sailing with MSC was Divinia. We have sailed twice but last was February 2022. All was good. Since first class with YC there are some things they corrected. Biggest gripe was no shade. They added a few umbrellas by pool. Walk to Le Muse. Not issue for us. We just walked down to first passenger floor, go aft, pop up to restaurant. Both times had a great time. Arthur was also on both sailings which only helps.

Having sailed MSC YC five times since restart, the first four dinners were good variety and quality. Last one, not. I see from Captain John's report they had the same menu we had one night. He's in Europe and we were US. I wonder if they are standardizing things as what I recall they varied. I saw reference to meals being Mediterranean inspired. Maybe some other area needs to inspire meals out of US. I also noticed our fridges had same contents. That also varied with Europe Pepsi, US Coke in the past. We had little glass coke bottles like Europe or Mexico. Thought that was odd. But bar had cans. Go figure.

They had elusive chocolate peanuts for check in. Our recent NYC nothing other than drinks. They finally budged from dark brown furniture in lounge. YC staffing is really the issue vs Haven. NCL goes with minimum and bare bones running them ragged. MSC staffs better numbers. Trolley of drinks is a great idea. Buffet looks great. That dinner menu same as what we had on gala night. Wasn't a fan of most. Too much seafood or things like duck we don't care for. Our fridge was identical to yours. Normally Europe was Pepsi, US coke. This was our fourth time on Mera and different from previous three. Fruit in room, we were told it would come, never did. Maybe a trial to reduce waste?? Not missed but if we had kids with they usually eat. When roaming ship we saw a note on a door 'no fruit'. Believe this was message asking for it and it was later in trip. Overall ship looks great. Have a good time.

It's 7:10 now so should be well into that cooler.

Couple other changes, ymmv. YC theater seating is now port side in the back. Butler still brings in regular line on right, not sure why changed. Soda used to be like coke zero and sprite zero in cans. In room it was coke zero in bottles and seven up zero in cans or regular sprite in bottles. Not an issue, just found odd compared to the past.

We had very good, even a couple excellent meals on MSC before. This trip was also in YC but not the same.

Well, at least the hotel has a cruise ship type toilet.

One other negative. If they have a crew party on the open deck way down the noise funnels onto your balcony, through glass, and into room.

Unfortunately no although it should be. If Diamond, 10 percent discount.

Was on trip before. I'd agree about the theater and steps. No hand rails and people coming in after lights turned down. Soft serve was like 1-5. Food, yes, subjective. I'd say buffet did have good variety but mostly starches no surprise. That movie channel would be TCM. They do have some color movies. Pool towels, they had a station starboard just before Bamboo doors. Staff was there long hours.