MSC Splendida photo review.

[TheCaveman]

Some random encounters...

 

 

 

 

WE saw this place on top of the hill, and decided to go there, or, find a way of getting there...

 

 

 

Wife taking a "selfie"

Edited May 19, 2014 by TheCaveman

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Found a city tour that will take us there...

 

unlike other city's, you had to purchase the tickets in advance, in the tourist office for this tour. Some people were waiting at the stop to buy tickets, and could not get on...

 

 

 

 

Some of the Munster Rugby team players walking there...

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Cant remember the place's name :o

 

 

It was Cathédrale La Major :)

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WE took the scenic route up the mountain

 

 

 

 

The above island is where they filmed The Count of Monte Cristo

 

 

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More random shots...

 

 

 

 

 

Getting closer...

 

 

 

We stopped, and had to walk up some steps to the Cathedral

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Basilica Notre-Dame of the Garde

 

 

 

WE had good vies from up here of the city...

 

 

 

 

Inside the cathedral

 

 

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scenic picks...

 

 

 

 

 

Our tour bus...

 

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Now it was a good few hours without an alcoholic drink, and we decided to head back to the ship, and relax by the pool...

 

 

 

The staircase...

 

After a few hours at the pool, we got ready for dinner.

 

Dinner was great, with all the courses. Our waiter is really good, and, service was fast, it was one of our friends birthday today, and we had a birthday cake delivered as dessert.

 

 

My drink of the cruise, double Jameson and coke, as it saved time to get 2 drinks each time, as it took less trips to the bars...

 

 

Starter...

 

 

Soup

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Dinner...

 

 

Can not remember what that is/was

 

 

 

 

 

The birthday cake being served... The waiter was great in the way he did the whole thing, it was one of those, you had to be there moments...

 

 

 

It was actually a really good cake...

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After dinner we went to the purple bar for a few drinks, whilst we waited for the Club 33 to open.

Finally we went up to the nightclub, and this is we're we had a really good time. Not sure what time we went to bed, must have been close to 3am

Now, on our first MSC cruise, we really did not like the way MSC allowed the night club to be open to all ages, as there was just to many kids on the dance floor. And some of them were like 2-3 walking dancing, etc, now as I am 6 ‘ 2 , I can easily knock them over, and I did not agree with the fact that kids are out that late. And, after 1am at night, most of the bars are closed, and, why are young kids not in bed?

 

But, now we knew what to expect, we just ignored all kids and we had a really brilliant evening.

There were a lot of teenagers on this sailing. And, quite often at the bar, they will ask you to buy them alcohol. But, after a few firm no’s, they stopped, for that night anyway

 

 

As we left the dining room, they were doing something, and told u to put these things on

 

we never found out why ???

 

 

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Day3

Genoa

 

The morning after the night before.....

 

Woke up, and all I can say was, what a night...

 

 

 

Was not in the mood for sightseeing. Wife and friends went on the hop on hop off bus tour, whilst I caught up on some sleep. (Ok, yes, I had a huge hangover)

 

 

This is where it is great to cruise with a group of friends, as, I knew the wife could go and explore the city, whilst I slept in, and not have to worry about it. If it was just the 2 of us cruising, I would have had to get up and joined her.

 

 

So, will now give you a tour of Genoa...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The aim was to try and find Christopher Columbus house, the dude who discovered America...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Found it....

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So, here it is, Christopher Columbus house

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More random Genoa pictures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View of Genoa from our balcony...

 

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Balcony pics...

 

 

 

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Once they got back from the city tour, we had a great lunch in La Verde restaurant, and went to lido deck for a relaxing afternoon.... It was a pretty lazy day, weather wasn't great and we just wandered around the ship.

 

We invited few friends again to our cabin for a sailaway, as they were staying in inside cabin and wanted to experience the sailaway from our aft balcony. We had few drinks and went for the dinner.

 

After dinner we went for bingo, no luck this time. Next we end up in Purple Bar and night club followed after that. That night we didn't stay very late, we were still tired from the night before.

 

 

 

Some drinks for sail-away...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dinner...

 

We ate in the MDR every evening, food was mostly great... No complaints...

 

 

 

 

 

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Tonight, i was drinking Jameson and ginger...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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After dinner, we went to the Purple bar, but the music was not to our liking, so we went to the plaza place...

 

 

 

Milkshake, with a shot of Jameson and Kaluha, amazing....

 

 

The one and only, Long Island Ice Tea.

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Dinner...

 

We ate in the MDR every evening, food was mostly great... No complaints...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi,

 

Caveman's wife here,

 

This was actually our lunch in MDR :)

 

Squid salad, Parma ham, Mussels soup, grilled veggies and...

 

absolutely amazing Nutella cake

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Will continue tomorrow ater work, with more photos and details...

[MotownVoice]

Egods my @$$ is getting fat just looking at these photos.

[soloadventurer]

Great review thank you re boarding time

[PathfinderEss]

Great photo's, thanks for posting.