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We are back in our home state here in Brazil now and it's about the same as you say. An increase in Mask wearing but most aren't. At bars for the football? Zero masks. I'll keep an eye on the Anvisa website for any updates re cruises. Enjoy your time there.

We never used it as we were on a three night cruise but it looked like a walk in facility up some stairs as you enter the terminal building.

I have lived here now for 4 years and, although it has to be paid for, I find the access to medical treatment faster and more thorough than that in the UK. As for covid tests, as said above, many pharmacies such as Drogasil and labs such as Sabin offer rapid tests with results given between 20 minutes and 4 hours. I recently sailed out of Santos and I noticed there was an independant testing station within the terminal building. I don't know if the same is in the Rio terminal.

I concur especially here in Brazil where I have sailed with MSC the past three years. Tank tops, pool shorts, flip flops and baseball caps are a regular sight in the MDR sadly. To be honest I suspect that Brazil is treated differently and most of the standards we would see in Europe are ignored.

We had a leaflet in our cabin for our recent sailing in Brazil showing daily rates of $9.99 and $14.99. I don't know what the differences were as we had a prepaid package so didn't look too closely.

Just to say to keep an eye on things. We have a new wave in progress here now and there were 56 thousand new cases yesterday. We flew home from Sao Paulo today and masks are compulsory airside at airports and on the aircraft.

We got the sparkling wine, macaroons and the bar of chocolate this week on Fantasia. No gift though and the extra time given in the cabin on the day of disembarkation wasn't recognised along with priority for tenders.

We've just finished a 3 nighter in Brazil and there was no elegant night. They did do white night and flower power.

Yes we have only experienced this within Brazil too. We had the easy plus package so didn't really take notice of the beer prices, sorry.

We are just waiting to disembark from Fantasia after a short cruise out of Santos. We have lived in Brazil for 4 years now so it's our third cruise here. Very, very noisy and virtually impossible to get a seat at all around the pool deck and, as said above, extremely loud music is played all day around the pool. Music in the bars will mostly be sertaneja, forro or mpb. The couple of european musicians seem to have gone. The buffet is the same, very long queues and difficult to get a table. I'd recommend breakfast and lunches in the dining rooms where available. With regards to the buffet, only paper cups for coffees were available and disposable plastic cups were used for beer in all the bars onboard. Table service, if available, is very slow in the bars, instead you need to queue at the bar for one bar steward to input your order, you are then given a receipt to have to queue again to give to the bar tender. I don't know of this is all peculiar to MSC cruises in Brazil, it was the same on Preziosa in April, but we are doing a TA from Rio to Barcelona in March and if it's the same we will reconsider whether to continue cruising with MSC. It's a shame because we just reached Diamond.

Congratulations. I was 100 short of Diamond after a short cruise in April and updated my telephone number to get the extra hundred. It took an email from me but it got sorted on the end.

We are due to sail on her on 21/11 and would love to know what bands are on board. We have sailed a few times now to/from and within Brazil and there are a couple of bands and singers that seem to be regulars. Any general comments on the cruise itself would be welcome. Many thanks.

Thankfully I have been able to book a drinks package on our 3 night cruise in Brazil next month. Maybe because most cruises here this season seem to be 3 nighters with a sprinkling of longer ones.