MSC Excursions

[jame_g]

MSC seems to have a somewhat limited selection of excursions for my cruise which is about 11 months out. Mostly city tours in vans/buses or walking tours. Do they generally add more excursions a little closer to the cruises? Maybe not all the vendor contracts go that far out?  Or is this likely to be everything that MSC will offer? 

[Beamafar]

MSC don't make all their excursions available to prepurchase;  they only offer a select few (with a 20% discount) for pre-booking. There will be a wider selection once onboard. 

[Cauzneffct]

I still don’t understand why they do that.   Maybe the typical MSC cruiser doesn’t book things until on board, but there’s no chance that i’d hold out hope that they’ll offer something I want rather than just book my own private excursion.  I’d figure that they’re missing out on a significant revenue stream by “hiding” excursions from pre-booking.

[Beamafar]

I gave up, a long time ago, trying to figure out why MSC do things the way they do.

[Mattnvick]

3 hours ago, Beamafar said:

MSC don't make all their excursions available to prepurchase;  they only offer a select few (with a 20% discount) for pre-booking. There will be a wider selection once onboard. 

I had no idea they did that Bea - is this for all of their cruises ?

[Beamafar]

7 minutes ago, Mattnvick said:

I had no idea they did that Bea - is this for all of their cruises ?

 

I'm not sure, TBH.  Certainly for our Oct/Nov cruise there are lots of excursions listed, but for Armonia cruise there were more offered once onboard.

[CruisingFox27]

I would say not all cruises, we've certainly been on cruises where there were no additional excursions available on board.Some itineraries just don't seem to have many available per port.