perakcruiser

Great story, I enjoyed to read because it is so different from the usual reviews. And the Preziosa is still my favourite MSC ship.

Yes and yes. By the way it is the same company that handles the Oman Air upgrade bids. The minimum bid there is even more ridiculous.

The WHO approvel is not really important when it comes to national requirements. That is why I only accepted Biontech/Pfizer as it is by far the most accepted vaccine.

UK includes not just gratuities, but also water and even coffee. And all taxes and port fees.

Unfortunately very difficult to compare as the UK price has so many things included.

Obvioulsly not, but a Ryanair ticket sometimes costs £10 and sometimes costs £500. Sometimes Interior sells out fast, sometimes Balcony, sometimes YC. Prices change so often and are totally flexible, not much sense to compare one exact date/ship/cabin/category/promo. I have seen a Fantastica Balcony cheaper than a Bella Inside. If you like price for a special route and ship and cabin, a balcony for £763 for example 😉 , just grab it.

Yes, of cause no problem. Your friend maybe want to add the UK address also for the US pax to keep things simple. Anyway MSC will not send any documents per post.

Very nice review! After 20 years searching somebody found edible egg Benedict on board MSC, great. What a surprise, they are hidden in the YC. In my opinion, egg Benedict is the worst thing on board MSC.

As the They are in a Bella inside (at the bed lamp on the wall), so they really should be everywhere.

I am familiar with that problem, but the sports rights world is so complicated nowadays that it is close to impossible for hotels, cruise lines, sport bars to cover everything. Anyway there is the streaming package with which we can solve the problem for ourselves.

MSC (as most other non-US cruise lines) is setting the punishment for cancelling a booking so high that in almost no case you get any advantage by cancelling and rebooking. Maybe because of legal reasons this is not so easy for the cruise lines in the US market, so only in the US market the things are different. As @Homosassa said: Part of the way MSC maintains its fare structure (what some people label as cheap cruises), is by tightly controlling fare churning by the booked passengers. Why should they help you to reduce your fare? At least they should annoy you a little bit and make things complicated 😄

Before the 5% were not available for all bookings. I never understood which category was not available from the wide arrange of MSC "Last Minute" and "Holiday Breaks" offers. Anyway I think it still will not be consitent.

Checked my last travel document for our cruise end of January 2022. It is on page 2 (details page) of the booking confirmation. Passengers: Name, DOB, MSC Club Member Gold, Card number. And on the cruise ticket it is directly on page 1: Passenger Name - Gold Voyagers Club Member But the membership number cannot be found on the cruise ticket.

Yes, I only one time got more than 5%, because we usually book very late. And the 5+15 was also not available on the specific cruise except that mentioned one time. Anyway, no matter how they call it, we just check the price, if we like it, we book, if we dont like it, we dont book.

Certainly. If you enter the ship without the OBC voucher from your travel document PDF the staff at the future cruise desk can do nothing for you. And the correct VC status needs to be stated in the travel documents also, otherwise it will be difficult to get the perks.