Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 15, 2023 #1 Share Posted July 15, 2023 It's "Holiday Road" tomorrow. Cruising the magnificent MSC Seascape out of Miami. Hope to escape the heat wave and effects of Saharan dust which is supposed to strike the East Coast. Use to be just hurricanes, now its dust. Read reports that the Chora Theatre shows are much better. MSC fired every cast member the beginning of June and replaced with another group that have garnered several standing ovations. Will try to report which are the best, not to be missed. Cruise Director is South African Benni whose 'trademark' is an alligator clap which crescendos into an alligator applause. Will start out the weeks entertainment at Le Cabaret Rouge. It seats 450 guests but only 150 are good viewing seats. It becomes more popular as the week progresses. Found the MSC collaboration with "Guinness Book of World Records" a bit lame which is held one evening in LCR. After exhausting one of these venues we love to stop by the Loft Cafe for more entertainment of a jazz quartet with Bruno Vincenza before bedtime. Hopefully things will be back to normal at the Port of Miami. Things will not be spectacular until mid 2024 when MSC opens its new Terminal AA/AAA, according to veteran port porter Clarence. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 15, 2023 Author #2 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Have learned something. It takes longer than 4 weeks to lose the weight from one cruise to the next. I only lost one pound from the last cruise. I'm doomed..... 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelwide Posted July 15, 2023 #3 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Let me be the first to welcome you back! Hope you find cool ocean breezes away from this So. Florida oppressive heat. Love following along. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigblue1952 Posted July 15, 2023 #4 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Love your observations. Hoping you have a great cruise and great weather. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare LMaxwell Posted July 15, 2023 #5 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Doing the hard work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules815 Posted July 15, 2023 #6 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Following along! Will you be in the RS again? Have a great cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 15, 2023 Author #7 Share Posted July 15, 2023 21 minutes ago, LMaxwell said: Doing the hard work! I lose count of calories after my first candy bar of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 15, 2023 Author #8 Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, jules815 said: Following along! Will you be in the RS again? Have a great cruise. Yes. DW will have it no other way. I’m doomed a second time. She has absolutely no consideration for my pocketbook. Edited July 15, 2023 by morpheusofthesea 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 15, 2023 Author #9 Share Posted July 15, 2023 If it makes anyone happy. No one has contacted us from MSC for cabin preferences, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgwest Posted July 15, 2023 #10 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Made my day!!! Another round of “Observations From The Poop Deck” to look forward to and enjoy!!😃 Rock on, my friend, rock on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relaxatsea Posted July 15, 2023 #11 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Looking forward to your review! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Best Cat Mom Posted July 15, 2023 #12 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Morph -- Thrilled that we have a YC veteran to tell us about current conditions. Enjoy as much as possible and share as much as you feel comfortable! 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 16, 2023 Author #13 Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Best Cat Mom said: share as much as you feel comfortable! 😉 I fear I will have to sugar coat some observations for the many with 'delicate constitutions'. Edited July 16, 2023 by morpheusofthesea 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Best Cat Mom Posted July 16, 2023 #14 Share Posted July 16, 2023 9 minutes ago, morpheusofthesea said: I fear I will have to sugar coat some observations for the many with 'delicate constitutions'. Sugar coat with your words, as usual -- there will be some of us who can guess your true meaning. LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelwide Posted July 16, 2023 #15 Share Posted July 16, 2023 1 hour ago, morpheusofthesea said: I fear I will have to sugar coat some observations for the many with 'delicate constitutions'. Then these people will just have to move on to other threads. 🥂🍾 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phred119s Posted July 16, 2023 #16 Share Posted July 16, 2023 14 hours ago, morpheusofthesea said: Have learned something. It takes longer than 4 weeks to lose the weight from one cruise to the next. I only lost one pound from the last cruise. I'm doomed..... Great. 😂😂 sailing Thursday on Seaside and getting on Seascape when you get off. No hope of losing the weight, I suppose. 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted July 16, 2023 #17 Share Posted July 16, 2023 1 hour ago, phred119s said: Great. 😂😂 sailing Thursday on Seaside and getting on Seascape when you get off. No hope of losing the weight, I suppose. 🤣 Please come back and report on the atmosphere on the Seaside 3 nite cruise. I will be doing that one in August, amid the Great Unwashed. EM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcpagejr Posted July 16, 2023 #18 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Happy sailing Morph... Look forward to reading your comments and observations. Been reading Genx review for this past week and it appears things seem to be getting back to normal along with new crew (coming back from leave)....Hopefully the staffs "A" crew is back on board!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phred119s Posted July 16, 2023 #19 Share Posted July 16, 2023 8 hours ago, Essiesmom said: Please come back and report on the atmosphere on the Seaside 3 nite cruise. I will be doing that one in August, amid the Great Unwashed. EM Ha! I’ll try to remember. We are all on that one to celebrate my child’s birthday. About half & half first time cruisers and previous cruisers. We typically try to avoid 3 nights on the weekends. It can’t be as bad as the lapse in judgement (it’s so cheap) that landed us on Carnival Liberty back in January, right?. Never again on Carnival… During the drive back, we decided to have the weekend birthday celebration though. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules815 Posted July 16, 2023 #20 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Happy boarding day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 16, 2023 Author #21 Share Posted July 16, 2023 It’s 11:15 and we are sitting waiting on the second floor holding area and passengers are still coming off the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelwide Posted July 16, 2023 #22 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Hope they are providing some bubbly to pass the time away. Something needs to be done with getting passengers off of the ship in a timely manner. Looking forward to hearing what the issue was today. More people hiding??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 16, 2023 Author #23 Share Posted July 16, 2023 4 minutes ago, travelwide said: Hope they are providing some bubbly to pass the time away. Something needs to be done with getting passengers off of the ship in a timely manner. Looking forward to hearing what the issue was today. More people hiding??? Yes bubbly being provided, 3 kinds of nuts in sealed individual cans. 5565 guests this cruise. No head butler this sailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P2l Posted July 16, 2023 #24 Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) 4 minutes ago, morpheusofthesea said: Yes bubbly being provided, 3 kinds of nuts in sealed individual cans. 5565 guests this cruise. No head butler this sailing. What will one do if one needs one's head butled? 😱 Edited July 16, 2023 by P2l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare morpheusofthesea Posted July 16, 2023 Author #25 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Heard more about the tragedy that occurred a couple weeks ago. Passengers started a riot outside Terminal C and police were called. Porters were on duty til 4am. Waters are very choppy in Governance Cut where the accident occurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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