MSC Meraviglia Live Cruise 6/18 Yacht Club

[natrav89]

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding & honeymoon! Super excited to read your reviews. We are staying in YC Interior right the next sailing! (June 25-July 2)

[snmathe]

So our wedding day is complete. There was only one minor hiccup, but the rest of the day ran smoothly! 

 

I am now in full on vacation mode!! I am so excited for our Honeymoon. Tomorrow I will start packing and will be posting a lot more with things I am bringing and how I am deciding to pack.

 

But for now, enjoy some of our wedding photos 🥰

[marti2282]

Absolutely lovely!

[alyssamma]

On 6/6/2023 at 11:38 PM, snmathe said:

I am also an introvert

You are an ambervert

[Bgwest]

Happy for both of you!!!😃

[snmathe]

The wedding dust has settled and I have officially started packing! I have a little one at home so finding time to pack has been a lot more challenging than I thought 🫠

 

but nonetheless, I have packed a good amount so far! We are leaving Friday evening to start our journey. My husband and I are notorious last minute packers and I’m trying my best not to be packing come Friday 🤣 so far, so good.

 

I was able to pack majority of my outfits today. I always bring too many shoes and purses. So I decided to bring 2 dinner shoes, 2 sandals, and one pair of tennis shoes. I really do love to have options. But I know having an interior the room will be smaller so I’m trying to pack smarter this time. 
 

I also found the theme nights (I will post) and packed for those as well. I’m also going to link my snorkeling gear. We will probably try to snorkel on the private island! I recommend investing in your own snorkeling gear. Especially if you go on cruises/beach vacations a lot. That way you can snorkel pretty much anywhere without having to worry about the cost. And it’s a fairly reasonable price.

 

I’m taking one large suitcase and a makeup/hair product bag (gold bag). I will also have a duffel bag that has outfits for Friday-Sunday. We will leave this bag in the car. I’m going to also share the photos of what my suitcase and makeup bag looks like. That way if you’re in an interior room, you can see how much you can fit.

 

Lastly, I’m going to share my packing list. I love making this on the notes app on an iPhone so I can check off the items I’ve already packed. And I can see what I’m

missing. I’ll post this list as well so you can get some of ideas of what to pack!

[snmathe]

The countdown begins! We are leaving for Cleveland right now. Our daughter is staying with her grandparents. So we are dropping her off there. It’s going to be very tough for my husband and I leaving our daughter for a week.

 

however, it will be nice to sleep in! Saturday we are driving halfway to PA, and then Sunday morning we are driving to Brooklyn for our cruise 🥳

 

I will update Sunday morning about the drive and then Sunday night about our first day!

[RichYak]

Safe travels!

[alyssamma]

5 hours ago, snmathe said:

Our daughter is staying with her grandparents

You must have AMAZING grandparents...

[Kruizin'Kath]

Safe travels! Congratulations on your beautiful wedding and daughter!

 

[snmathe]

The day is finally here!! We are on our last stretch of our trip to Brooklyn. We drove from Cleveland to Mifflinville, PA on Saturday. It took us about 5 hrs (including stops) to get to Mifflinville. I can’t recommend the place we lodged at because it was very interesting with some very interesting people😅 let’s just say there was someone outside that was indecent and didn’t really phase him! But the room was clean. It was good for just one night.

 

My husband and I both agreed we wanted to get out of there as quick as possible. So as soon as we woke up, we loaded the car and left. It’s about a 2hr drive to PA. So originally we were going to leave at 8 and get there by 10. Instead we left at about 630 and will get there around 9.

 

Now with Yacht Club, you can arrive whenever! You don’t need to follow the embarkation time they give you. And I saw a review on Facebook how a yacht club group got there early, and they just waited in the yacht club area until they could board the ship. Which we are fine with doing. Or if we have to wait in our car until 10, we are fine with as well. We just don’t want to be in that hotel 🤣 

 

The drive through PA is also very pretty! I will post twice more today. One about embarkation and then later tonight about our first day/night on the ship ❤️

[Kteacher]

On our way as well, car service from western Ma. Driver brought someone to Meraviglia 2 weeks ago who loved the cruise 👍

[sbcs5390]

So excited to follow along! Hope you are settling down to lunch at The One grill or in the YC restaurant. It’s a beautiful day today on the Jersey Shore so I am sure The One deck will be hopping for sail away!
 

I’ll have an eye out for the ship later! I usually can see it go by each Sunday now. I had such a nice time in April and am excited to return in October with my family. Love living vicariously through these posts until then!

[CTGirl74]

How was the traffic leading up the terminal?

 

I've seen accounts of the traffic on other threads, but I'm curious how it is when arriving a bit earlier as you are. We're cruising from Brooklyn in October and booked a car service. We're in CT and Google Maps says it's about two hours; however, I've heard people say add an hour just from the last mile or so up to the terminal. We're leaving home at 7am and should be there by 10am. Since we're in YC, I'm not worried about having to wait around until we board.

[snmathe]

Embarkation was so smooth and easy! We decided to park and pay. Mostly for convenience. The parking was a little confusing, there were a lot of people yelling at cars. But I understood why. We arrived around 8:50. They had the traffic of incoming and out coming guests. There were a good amount of people coming in at this time and I was shocked. We didn’t run into any traffic at all either.

 

after we parked the car, we made our way to a blue tent. It’s right by the parking lot. It says Yacht Club on it too so it wasn’t hard to miss. They took our suitcase there and then we had to cross the street and go into a corner to wait maybe 5 mins. This place was hard to find though. They also don’t call yacht club parties loud enough so you really have to listen. They also only take 3-4 parties at a time. We were lucky and made it in the next group. We bypassed the check in line and went to a special yacht club line. It took about 5 mins for them to check our passports and go through security.
 

Then you are whisked away to another private yacht club area to do a more in-depth check in. This process took maybe 10-15mins. This is we’re you get your coveted yacht club wrist band and sail card. By the time we were done, it was around 940. We went into a waiting area to get on the ship. And immediately the A+ service started. It wasn’t time to board the ship just yet, however I had a butler come up to me and ask if I wanted my bracelet to be put on. And then got me a drink.

 

We were waited on and it was perfect. We knew we were going to have to wait a little to get on the boat because we arrived early. But we were fine with it. We just wanted out of that hotel 🤣

 

We got to board around 1030. So about ab 1 1/2 hrs from start to finish. But keep in mind we had to wait for the boat to be ready. So far our day is going great and I’ll update on our first day tonight!

[snmathe]

8 hours ago, Kteacher said:

On our way as well, car service from western Ma. Driver brought someone to Meraviglia 2 weeks ago who loved the cruise 👍

I’m loving everything so far!

[Kteacher]

1 hour ago, snmathe said:

I’m loving everything so far!

Embarkation was a little chaotic for us, but we are trying to go with the flow 👍

[xcell]

Congrats on the wedding!

 

You are going to have a great time --especially in the YC.

 

May I ask, how much was parking?  And this was the Brooklyn terminal?

 

 

[LImom]

Parking for the Meraviglia at the Red Hook Cruise Terminal in Brooklyn is $45 per day.

[jean87510]

Hi going to follow as we are on here next June for my daughter's college grad trip in the YC.  Can you take pictures of the YC seafood lunch day as I can't find any online and wanted to get my daughter pumped up and ready?

[sbcs5390]

2 hours ago, jean87510 said:

Can you take pictures of the YC seafood lunch day as I can't find any online and wanted to get my daughter pumped up and ready?

They haven’t been doing this on Meraviglia, unfortunately. 

[snmathe]

Sunday

 

This whole day was spent trying all the food 🤣 

 

when you first get on the boat, a butler escorts you to the yacht club lounge. There, you have a bunch of canapés and light hors D’oeuvre . The Yacht Club lounge changes these selections about 5 times a day. We were there around 11 and had the finger food selections

 

it was delicious. After that, we went up to the yacht club pool deck on deck 19. Up there we had our first lunch 🙈 the food was amazing. The views were awesome too.

 

The food was fresh. And my husband and I didn’t have one bad meal. After that, we had our second lunch in the Yacht Club Restaurant. 

 

My hubby and I both had the charred octopus soup. It was decent. Then my husband had the homemade pasta and I had the Tournedos which is beef. We both really liked our entree. The best part of cruising is trying food you’d never eat elsewhere. So even though we didn’t love the octopus soup, we were both glad we tried it!

 

Next, we went up to our room for our emergency drill. They never called our deck which was weird. And then when we went down, they just told us to

forgey about it….so we never did the drill. Very odd. But after that, we went up to the Sky Lounge for the sail away. This is an adult only section and such a cool bar. It has panorama windows and you see everything. We got the best views of departure.

 

They announce when you’re about to go under the Verrenzo bridge. I’m going to be honest…it freaked me out 🤣 so I didn’t get good pictures. It was kind of trippy. But I know my husband was taking pictures so if I can get some from him, I’ll post! But it was cool until we were right under the bridge.

 

next, we did more eating 🤣 we went to the top sail lounge for afternoon snacks 

 

the finger sandwiches are hit or miss. It’s really your preference on what you like on them. We also had to try the pizza so we went to the main buffet to get that.

we are on deck 15 which is where the buffet is so it was nice. I will say, I’m glad we are in Yacht Club because a lot more peaceful and relaxing and not as crowded. When we went to go get the pizza there were a lot of people and I just felt very overwhelmed. 

next, we got ready for dinner! I decided to get dressed up and really enjoy myself. But before we made it to dinner, we went to the yacht club lounge for appetizers! I didn’t enjoy these as much. My husband got pizza and I got a ton of butter with a little bit of toast. My husband loved the pizza bites though

 

The dinner in the Yacht Club lounge overall was decent. 

For our starters, my husband had the duck and I had the tomato soup. We both loved it! We then both got the dumplings and they were decent. For our entree, we shared the risotto and both got the veal. The risotto was too fishy for me so I couldn’t eat it. But if you like that you will love it. We both loved the veal but it was pretty chewy. My husband got the chocolate cake for dessert

we ended the night kind of early. We were both so tired. We got one more round of drinks and then ordered pizza for room service. And ate and watched Parks n Rec to end the night ❤️

 

[snmathe]

12 hours ago, xcell said:

Congrats on the wedding!

 

You are going to have a great time --especially in the YC.

 

May I ask, how much was parking?  And this was the Brooklyn terminal?

 

 

It was $315 total

[snmathe]

2 hours ago, jean87510 said:

Hi going to follow as we are on here next June for my daughter's college grad trip in the YC.  Can you take pictures of the YC seafood lunch day as I can't find any online and wanted to get my daughter pumped up and ready?

Yes I will if I see it! I heard they do this on port days when there’s not a lot of people on the ship. But I will ask tomorrow!

[jcpc]

Loving your review.  Thanks so much for doing this.