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We had our first Yacht Club experience in an Interior Cabin on Seashore (after 12+ MSC sailings) a couple weeks ago, loved it, was very surprised at how spacious cabin was and the amount of storage, lots of drawers, and enough closet space, and then there’s the whole Yacht Club thing. Enjoyed it so much booked Seascape shortly after getting home for husband’s bday in November when I saw a couple Yacht Club Interiors still sitting there. Be forewarned, it’s addictive.

I love the old benches with the engraved ship name, always took a pic, not on newer ships, just a “plain old bench!”

Perhaps some day our paths will cross. (I just read another post where you referenced your NYC subways, for some reason I thought you were from Europe.) Next bookings are Carnival in September and MSC November.

I have always used the MSC Agent without any problems but have of course read the horror stories! Have not used a TA for years, but would enjoy that 10% discount, just sorry you cannot tell me the excellent person you work with.

I know many people use TAs when booking a MSC cruise, I have always used a MSC Agent without any difficulty. I do my research ahead of time, down to the cabin i want and price it should be, then call in. Did so two weeks ago again, had my price figured out, Agents do seem to come upon the price differently, but we were only a couple $s off so all good.

Oh it will, act like you know exactly what you are doing!

@SpainAlien agree with jimbo, after you get off first ship as late as you can and make it to second ship, it could be they are not even looking at check-in times, I would just go into line and go with the flow, and then “if” your check-in time is mentioned you can play the “side to side” card, have fun.

We have done a side by side, MSC to Carnival Celebration. We stayed on first ship as long as allowed then picked up luggage and out we went, (when checking in on-line earlier of course tried to get the earliest possible embarkation time on the Celebration), put new luggage tags on, walked to Celebration (was doable for us, just watch out for various vehicles moving around, some sidewalk is available), and were able to get checked in and wait in lounge area until boarding started. Worked great. The specialty restaurants that are complimentary for your first visit are, when open at lunch time, complimentary for unlimited visits. At dinnertime you do need to check in on App. Pig Anchor/Heroes Lounge also has a complimentary dinner menu, really enjoyed it, fun place. Someone earlier did suggest Pig Anchor only complimentary first time, that was not true for us. And for Pig Anchor we did not check in on App, just lined up at entrance.

We were on the Armonia two or three times and daughter and husband with two children once when it sailed out of Miami. We enjoyed the ship and would cruise on her again. But she is an older type cruise ship so people have various opinions when sailing on her. We had Interior Cabins so have no insights into Aurea experience on the Armonia.

Perfectly said!

Good to know, thank you.

We too sailed from Barcelona, taxied to hotel near port (did not go into Barcelona) and then taxied to port next morning, was easy. We flew direct from Newark to Barcelona. Sailed from Rome/ Cive… also, harder to navigate for us, airport not close to cruise port. That was also Newark to Rome.

Let’s keep it a secret!