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I have posted 11 nights of the YC Dinner menu from Divina in the Caribbean here:

To reuse the words of a wise person -- because they are tooooooooo nice. 😁

Not just interlopers of the One Pool deck, but interlopers of a cabana? How could a butler not figure this one out?? I hope it is just a matter of time. (If they have been granted "special access" to the YC, that would also include the restaurant, no?)

Update on Divina YC staff: Tiziana Piccaluga - current YC Director Guiseppe (Pepe) Terminiello - now in Brazil Mehmet (Le Muse maitre d') - on board, leaving 13 May Simone (Head Concierge) - on board, leaving 10 May Hubert (TSL bartender) - left 18 Apr, will be on Bellisima beginning 4 Aug Susmita (Le Muse Assistant Server) - left 18 Apr Ismael (Le Must Assistant Server) - leaving 24 Apr Still on board as of 18 Apr: Rudy (Head Butler) Kaoutar (Concierge) Dwi (Butler) Elvin (Butler) Richard (Assistant Butler) Jehwell (Assistant Butler) Ashish (TSL Bartender) Astari (TSL Butler) Warsha (Le Muse Host) Glenn (Le Muse server) - leaving sometime in July Ryan (Le Muse Assistant Server) Kumar (Le Muse Server) Antonio (Le Muse Chef)

We saw this on Seaside last year, along with a "sunglass cleaning station" near the door to the elevator for when they were not circulating to provide the service:

Yes, someone else reminded me of that area yesterday. We don't frequent the One Pool deck often so I totally forgot about it!

Gelato is no longer "free" for any guests. However, I've heard some people say that in the afternoons the butlers sometimes bring cups of it to the One Pool deck. Also, there have been reports that sometimes guests can get free gelato at the counters as well. We only had it back in 2018 when it was still free. Haven't asked for it since then because we rarely have sweets.

We've been to Venice, Florence, Rome, Lucca, Bologna, Lake Garda, Genoa, Naples, Verona, Pordenone, Aviano, Sacile, Dardago and a whole bunch of small villages around the Dardago area. There are still so many other places we've yet to visit in Italy. Greece is on our list, but we don't want to be too near the Black Sea while Putin is still an ongoing threat. We're sticking to the Mediterranean side of Italy for now. If you give me your email address, we can chat more. 🙂 Did you happen to have Onel as your server on Euribia? He took great care of us on Divina last year and I've heard that he moved to Euribia.

My opinion is Divina has less, but that's from our YC perspective. The Seaside (and maybe other ships do as well) has a open area off TSL that encompasses the entire front of the ship and the starboard side of it is smoking. We find that much more offensive than the One Pool smoking area, mostly because we don't use the One Pool. The other consideration with Seaside is if your cabin is on the starboard side towards the front, the smoke can easily waft back and be detectable on your own balcony. The other places never touch us, since we can easily avoid them. And I agree totally with you -- one smoker (of any substance) is one too many!

We had the pleasure of her excellent service as well. Our gain is hopefully not at a cost to her.

It was great meeting you both! I hope you find another MSC YC cruise to enjoy -- and hope we happen to be onboard with you. 😉

So are we. 😞 Unfortunately, our boys left for college already so they are not living with us right now. (That's our euphemism, it doesn't hurt as much.)

You are absolutely correct. I totally forgot about that area. It's right where you come out of the YC elevator that takes you up to the One Pool deck. They even had a pop up YC tent to cover the first tables there this past sailing. We just walk right past it because the bar and buffet are on the other side past the pool and hot tubs. Thanks for the correction!

Some overall thoughts about this cruise and MSC... We counted 5 languages used in the announcements on this cruise: English Italian Spanish French German This is the same as we encounter on an international flight so one way or the other, we're going to hear multiple languages. Not an issue for us at all. More practice for us. Others may find this annoying. I guess those people don't like it in Europe either. Also, most announcements are only in the public areas of the ship. Only important ones -- muster, safety issues, the captain's announcement of our propulsion issue -- are piped into the cabin. And there are not a lot of annoying extra announcements -- about bingo or trivia or art auctions or whatever -- like we had on NCL. Divina does not have wristbands, just cruise cards. For elevators, the cruise cards can be used on some elevators for YC override. We mostly used the override when possible. It was really nice during busy times to not have a "local" elevator that stopped on a bunch of floors. Once we got on and there was an elderly couple already on who looked concerned. We told them that we wouldn't use the override and they seemed relieved. MSC beds have been an issue for us, as have most hotel room beds in Italy. When I wind up with my elbow, arm, or other body part in the "hole," it's quite annoying. Richard did a great job of tying the mattresses together for us. The gap was minimal and I never woke up because I was stuck and couldn't turn over. Our experience with the beds and the junior butler's handling of them varies on each cruise, but so many other good things about MSC out weigh this not-so-good thing. Besides, going home to our own bed makes disembarkation not quite so end-of-the-world for us. Divina has tub-shower combo units in regular YC rooms (at least, all of ours have been that way). We always hear people complaining about the half shower partition and how the whole bathroom gets wet. Welcome to Italy! We've had this plenty of times in various Italian cities. We don't stay at Ritz or Four Seasons type hotels, so maybe those don't have the same set up. But when you see a drain in the bathroom floor in a hotel, you can bet that water is expected to go everywhere. We just laugh and say that the dolphin was in our bathroom again. We received 2 newspapers each day: the Wall Street Journal I requested and also a USA Today. Not sure why. I only read WSJ and tossed the USA Today when BCD did not pick it up. We had 2 kids in YC this cruise. At least I think there were 2. I never really looked at them, just heard them. When they are outside our cabin making too much noise, we usually just talk to each other really loudly using adult language. That gets the parents to all of a sudden realize where they are and hurry their kids away from our cabin door. 🙂 We had been booked on Divina's transatlantic back from Europe to Miami that was scheduled for November of this year. Just a few days before we sailed this cruise, we heard that it had been cancelled. During the first few days of this cruise, our travel agent worked with MSC to get us rebooked on Seaside's transatlantic instead. The new cruise is 1 night longer and one month earlier. It was also priced over $5K more on the website. She got it for us at the same price as our cancelled cruise. And we still have over $1K of OBC from her for the cruise. I highly recommend using an experienced MSC travel agent to book your cruises with MSC. We were onboard so it would have been tough to work out the details on our own and would have taken time out of our holiday. Instead a few emails back and forth was all it took. (Thanks @Georgia_Peaches for the referral to your great agent!) As I posted the Daily Programs for each day, I noticed that every day (except one, can't recall which) there was a note about YC at the top of the front page clearly saying to stay out if you're not a YC guest: Interesting that this statement includes barring entrance to suites as well. We did have one time at either a breakfast or a lunch that a couple tried to enter Le Muse. They were promptly escorted out. We were not up in the One Pool area enough to ever notice any interlopers. We met some great people on this cruise. Thanks for the great chats, especially about music, to @Cathy in Boston and her spouse! Thanks also to T and J for collecting supplies for BCD. Sorry that I cannot find your CC name "in NM." Hope you're enjoying your next cruise now! We also saw a few casino "guests of the ship" who were not very respectful to the staff and to other guests. Nothing that another round of drinks couldn't fix for us, though. The social media site roll call was organized by a great couple who were fun late-night at TSL, though I don't think they're on CC. Lots of YC people booked future cruises while on board, which is a good indicator of how much they enjoyed this sailing. Finally, a garage update: BCD gave out 9 cars this cruise. Five were the same design as last cruise, which he called Gen (Generation 2). On the last cruise, he had a Gen 1 design that he scrapped and replaced with Gen 2. On this cruise, he made some Gen 2 and then developed a Gen 3 model. He gave out 4 of the Gen 3 models on this cruise. Gen 2 used 10 cork muzzles, while Gen 3 uses 16. gen 3 takes longer for production but, as I understand it, the significant aerodynamic advantages are worth it. 😁 The Gen 3 is the bottom left in this image from the ones we have at home: Yes, BCD has continued to work at home with the extra supplies from when we're on board. 🙂 Thanks again for following along. If anyone has more questions, I'm happy to answer. Ciao, ciao!

Day 12 -- Disembarkation Disembarkation information left in cabin: As we left TSL early this morning, we asked the night concierge if Le Muse might be open an extra 30 minutes since we were delayed getting into Miami. He speculated that maybe it would be, but could not be certain -- and at 2am, there was no one to call. We figured we'd get there at 8:29am just in case. Coffee and Baileys arrived after our short nap LOL and we proceeded to get ready for the day. As we prepared to leave the cabin to go to Le Muse, we checked the time and it was already 8:30am. We checked the concierge desk, they called Le Muse and verified that it was already closed. 😞 The concierge held our carry on luggage near the desk while we had some breakfast snacks of cold cuts, cheese and fruit in TSL along with 2 rounds of mimosas to await disembarkation. We also had 2 more tip envelopes and 2 cars to distribute. Missions accomplished! Here is Elvin with his car: Our flight was at 1:30pm so we were not in a huge hurry. And this was just as well since Dwi told us it was quite crazy in the line to exit the ship. She said that many people had decided to self-carry their luggage and walk off because of the delay and that there were all these families in line with 4 or more suitcases, baby strollers, etc. We chose to leave just at 11am and were escorted to the front of the line. Tiziana and Elvin took us down, with Tiziana holding back the regular line for us, looking like a police officer on crowd control. Simone was standing just past security giving out hugs to YC passengers before they took the ramp to shore. As I hugged him, BCD said that I'd better hurry because people were getting angry. Yikes! When we arrived to the luggage claim area, we grabbed our bags and entered the customs line at ~11:20am. A half an hour later, we'd made it to the doorway to the customs lanes. We asked the gentleman there who was directing people to specific lanes about facial recognition. He said that at today's "morning meeting" they were told that they would not be using facial recognition today so they removed all the equipment that had been in place for it. He never said why or if it was just our terminal C or the whole port. But he said that the machines had been there ready for us. I know that there is a lot of speculation about ships that have stopped at Cartagena and ours did stop there. He did make it clear that someone made the decision to not use facial recognition, and the machines were not "down." We took a shuttle bus to the Miami airport that was offered to us at the rate of 2 people for $15 instead of taking Uber as we usually do. We were on board at 12:58pm enjoying a round of PDBs: By 10:30pm, we arrived home and began the countdown for our next cruise -- 149 days until a 14-day B2B on Seascape out of Miami. Thanks to all of you who've followed us on our sailing. I hope that it has been helpful and maybe a bit entertaining. I know that I have learned so incredibly much from CC over the years and have been pleased to try to pay it back here. I have some overall comments that I'll post next to close the thread...

Day 11 concludes... At noon, the captain announced that the ship was having propulsion issues and would be late into Miami tomorrow. He estimated the delay to be about an hour and advised guests to consider their plans for disembarkation, especially flights. He said that he'd give us another update later in the day. When he did, I think the estimated delay was still an hour. Our flight was after noon so we were not overly concerned. After BCD had completed his last car and we changed for dinner, we arrived at Le Muse the latest of our entire cruise -- 9pm. The place was still fairly full and did not close until 9:30pm so I'm sure more people arrived after us. Glenn and Ryan's section is in the back so we can't see all the way to the entrance. Tonight was Italian night and the tables were festively dressed. There were only tables in the middle of the floor at the time we arrived so Warsha put us at one of the those and said to just wait a few minutes for a window table that was opening up nearby. Ryan has always chilled flutes for us so our champagne stays cold, not that it has a chance to get warm with how quickly we enjoy it -- so Warsha had to tell him not to bring them yet. Soon we were at said table and reading the menu with our champagne: What a great menu for our last dinner! Everything we ordered are favorites of ours. We switched to the Gabbiano chianti for our meal: We both started with beef carpaccio: Then we both ordered the lamb for our mains: We chose to share the ossobuco, skipping the risotto because we enjoy asparagus best when we're eating it, not later on: And then a nice bowl of spaghetti carbonara appeared once again for BCD: Tonight we ate extremely well and left extremely late but there were still a few other tables occupied. True European dining habits were found on this sailing -- guests that dine slowly and enjoy their food with lots of conversation throughout the meal. We returned to TSL for our last evening there and found that we had missed Hubert's singing. 😞 But we did see a few videos and he was superb again. We stayed there for nightcaps until nearly 2am -- even though we'd lose an hour of sleep. We had a wonderful last evening aboard la Divina. Day 12 and disembarkation (nnnnoooooooooooooo) is next...

We just disembarked Divina a few days ago. The YC Library is no more. It has been replaced by displays of items available from the shops on board.

There are not any smoking areas in YC. There is still a smoking area in the casino, in the forward area of the casino on the port side. The smoke from the casino wafts up the staircase and is sometimes noticeable in La Luna Bar, which is directly above the casino. Also, the port side of the aft adults pool is a smoking section. When you walk back to Le Muse on the port side on deck 15, you may encounter smokers there. I think the starboard side of the main pool also has smoking as well. When we walk outside, we always walk on the port side of deck 15 since the door to enter Le Muse is closest there. You could walk an inside deck to Le Muse to avoid all the smokers as well. There is a Cigar Bar on 6 that is completely closed off, though a bit seems to seep out if you are near it. I believe it is next to the Effy jewelry store. If you get bothered by the smoke, perhaps you can soothe yourself with a nice souvenir. 😉

We had the pleasure of the Ercan/Anna team on Seaside in September 2023. He was great at accommodating my GF needs. I hope he is still on board for our 14 September cruise later this year. If you can find out, I'd really appreciate it! Wait, let me rephrase... "Find out if he is still on board 14 September." 😁

Day 11 -- Sea Day The day dawned as another bright sunny morning on the sea, and unfortunately our last full day on board for this voyage. Le Muse closed at its normal time of 9am so we made it there for breakfast: You may notice the tall glass of water with ice on the left. BCD prefers this to a room temperature small glass. Early in our last cruise, he had requested it at breakfast and lunch. Since we have nearly the same staff in Le Muse, someone has told new-to-us servers to bring that for him. Our champagne is the same -- host Warsha is quick to tell staff that we require champagne at lunch and mimosas at breakfast. The service has been superb for us. (And I should add that everyone who remembers us from the last cruise and treats us well were not necessarily tipped by us last cruise.) We had our usual MSC Express for BCD and two six-minute boiled eggs with bacon for me. Mehmet stopped by to say his usual greetings and we were talking about how thrilled (not) we were to be packing later. We said we'd console ourselves with a pizza during the process, though I'd just be picking the toppings off the crust. He asked if I'd like a GF pizza and I almost fell off my chair. He stepped away, made a quick call and came back to tell me that he'd have a margherita pizza for me at lunch!! We agreed on a time and I floated out of Le Muse to get to the rest of our day. Since this was our last day, we knew from past cruises we'd be quite busy. We hurried to casino to cash in our various receipts, picked up envelopes from the concierge desk, verified people's names and spellings at the desk, and ran back and forth between the cabin and the desk as we realized we needed paper bills changed to properly stuff each envelope. When 12:30pm approached, I dragged BCD back to Le Muse (the tips can wait! I have a pizza coming!!). We had champagne and I barely glanced at the menu: BCD began with the capri salad: I had a simple GF salad, but I don't think I ate much of it since I was saving room for PIZZA: We switched to the Gabbianio chianti after the salads. BCD had ordered pasta vongole for his main. I recall a CC thread about dry pasta with only one clam. This had 3 clams with shells for garnish and a nice dollop of clam sauce. No clam-gate here: My GF pizza arrived and I was delighted with it, especially the crust. Don't judge this image too harshly. Trust me that if you are GF, you would be quite pleased with the pizza: I enjoyed the crust so much that I asked Glenn to save the ends of the slices for my dinner. Tonight was Italian night and I knew there would be sauce for me to enjoy with the crusts. We left Le Muse to return to our cabin to continue our work on the tips. BCD also had one more car to finish for delivery later today. Here is the passage on deck 15 from the Jungle Pool to the elevators that are just outside of YC. The doors are labeled for YC only even though the elevator area is outside of the YC sanctuary. It does keep those elevators less used by the rest of the ship and more "hijackable" by YC members: Day 11 concludes next...

Day 11 Daily Program...

Correction -- I will try my worst!!

Ggggrr... I will try my best going forward, I promise!!

Day 10 concludes... Tonight was White Night and it was later in the cruise than we've ever experienced. We arrived to Le Muse around 8pm and it was a relatively calm restaurant at that time. We enjoyed some champagne and looked over the menu: BCD began with dumplings: I ordered the salmon to start: We switched to Mirrasou pinot noir for the main course: Ryan always wants a picture of himself to send to his fiancée (who was his girlfriend on our previous cruise -- progress!): BCD chose the lamb for his main, while I had lamb-envy because it was not GF: I opted for the salmon with extra vegetables. Salmon again? Yes, because I did not get enough of salmon quite yet. Glenn skinned it for me because -- well, of course: We shared the risotto, with "snow" on BCD's not-quite-half: Lots of nightcaps in the TSL followed, as time was running low for such fun. Treats were in the room (image taken the next morning -- that is not sunlight coming into our cabin when we retired from the lounge!): Day 11 is next...

Day 10 -- Roatan We slept in today and even changed the coffee and Baileys to 8am. Arrival in Roatan was scheduled for an early 7am. As a result, Le Muse breakfast ended at 8:30am, which is just too darn early for us. We're always in a rush to make a 9am closing. The One Pool buffet closes at 10am (every day, I think, no matter what the port schedule is -- at least on this cruise) and we made it up there at 9:45am. The bar area was peaceful, as most had probably gone out today or at least been up earlier than us. Some images of the buffet area on Divina, which is the same on Fantasia and likely the other Fantasia-class ships, smaller than newer ships: This last image has the herring rollups in the left-most position. Someone asked about them another another thread so I made sure we included them here, though I can't recall who to tag. Sorry! We both ordered egg white with bacon and cheese omelets: We did notice that the potatoes on the buffet differ in "type" -- sometimes they were cubed, sometimes sliced, sometimes spears and sometimes the hockey puck variety. We had considered going out today since we've never been out at this port. We've only travelled here once and it was pouring rain that day. After spending an hour in the shade of the One Pool table, we were so overheated that we scrapped that idea. Oh well, maybe next time... We returned to the peace and air conditioning of TSL. We saw Dwi and Richard and thanked them for the wonderful room decorations. In TSL, Hubert told us that he had received his next contract assignment with his disembarking instructions. He will be on Bellisima in Asia beginning 4 August. Ashish, the other bartender, will remain on Divina until July. No idea who will be with Ashish beginning 18 April when Hubert departs. After some time in TSL, we walked to Le Muse on Deck 7 -- it was that hot out on deck. The cold champagne in Le Muse was refreshing as we checked out the offerings on the menu: I started with the salmon, which I had also ordered as a starter a few nights earlier where we'd forgotten to get a picture. It looked and tasted the same (yummy!): BCD started with the burrata: Today the mains included the prawns that are not our favorites so we both ordered burgers, my first of the cruise. No pictures, but imagine mine as GF -- no bun, no fries. Not worth an image. BCD's was served as previously shown days ago. We had the Altos malbec to accompany our mains: Then we headed back to TSL via Deck 7 once again. The heat from the morning still lingered with us. Day 10 conclusion follows...