MSC Divina Q&A by a teenager

[mackin101]

Hi, I'm 16 years old and I just came off of the MSC Divina. I started this thread so that you can ask questions about it and I will answer them from my perspective of the cruise, a 16 year-old's perspective. I can also answer general cruising question. This has been my 9th cruise and I have been on Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, and MSC. Please feel free to ask anything about cruises.

[Giantfan13]

Hi, I'm 16 years old and I just came off of the MSC Divina. I started this thread so that you can ask questions about it and I will answer them from my perspective of the cruise, a 16 year-old's perspective. I can also answer general cruising question. This has been my 9th cruise and I have been on Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, and MSC. Please feel free to ask anything about cruises.

 

Thanks for your offer to help other cruisers. We were also on the Aug23 sailing, and as a 68 year old, I'm sure we had different views of most things on this sailing. I have already given my impressions, I'd really be interested in yours.

 

What did you enjoy most, and least, about the cruise?

 

Were you the one hanging out with all the other teens pressing all the buttons on the elevators? (no, I'm just kidding you). In fact we felt most of the kids, teens included ,were very well behaved and we hardly noticed them at all.

 

Cheers

 

Len

[maureencruiser]

Did you have fun on the cruise and did you like the food? :)

[mackin101]

Sorry! I posted a review somewhere else and I forgot to actually write a review here. The ship went to St. Maarten, San Juan, and Great Stirrup Cay. I can't say anything about excursions booked through the ship because I didn't go on any. I highly enjoyed the food, although it wasn't super hot. The pastas and pizza were my favorite things. I found that the fish was always overcooked and my brother said that the steak that he had was tough. The buffet food was equally good, but there seemed to be a lack of senior staff working there. It would be hard to find cutlery or dishes and you had to fight to get in to the food. They also didn't refill the food as often as it should have been. The service in the dining room for breakfast and lunch was slow and it could take up to 2 hours to have a meal. I loved the teen club. There were a lot of international cruisers, so there was a lot of cultures and different languages. Although they didn't do much in the teen club, it was still a lot of fun. The night that they did the pool party was the same night as the Michael Jackson tribute show and at the same time, so that wasn't very fun. The shows were wonderful, with lots of singing, acting, and acrobatics. The costumes and staging were done very well. For the shows that had a tribute or had a story line, they used a sound system and the actor would mouth the words. The rooms were nice, though my bed was broken for half of the week and we had to call a senior maintenance staff to deal with it. The beds were hard and the pillows were lumpy. A great part about talking with people on the ship was that they would actually listen to suggestions, which seems impossible with other cruise lines. Overall, I really enjoyed the cruise and I think that it has been my favorite one yet.

[modes]

Thanks for your thoughts and yes the pillows are horrible.

[riclop]

Thanks for your review.

[maureencruiser]

Thanks for the info, sounds like you had fun.