Dock B

Pacific Princess 2015, the Princess 50th Anniversary cruise that recreated their 1st cruise fifty years prior. There was a mid-cruise brunch in the MDR. The maitre d’ wore his footy pajamas!! It was very fun and matched his personality. The passengers were not in their pj’s.

Click the link provided, then scroll all the way to the bottom to find their info on shuttle to the port.

“Captain Bye-bye’s” real name is Captain Tuvo.

When in a hotel, we count the number of doorways to get to the closest emergency stairs and to the alternate exit. In the event you had to duck low or crawl to get to an exit, the number of steps would not help but you could still feel the doorways. DW and I need to do a better job of finding secondary (the “hidden” stairway exits) when on a cruise ship and knowing how to get there, in addition to the main stairs. Once, on a Princess ship, they had pax using both the main stairwells and the “hidden” ones for muster drill. Unfortunately, only the main stairs & elevators were available after drill.

@Best Cat Mom loving your review—thank you for taking time to share with all of us. We’ll sail Divina this coming December in YC as our 3rd MSC cruise. Our cabin is 2 doors aft from yours, 15026. Anything we need to know about the location (noise, interlopers…anything positive or not-so-positive). We won’t try to change rooms but if there is something to be aware of, this will give us time to moderate our expectations if we need to. Regardless of anything, we plan on having a lovely, relaxing time in YC!! I thank you for your insight. PS: got any photos from the auto garage yet?!?

I’m not absolutely positive regarding this comment but my guess is the “bye-bye” at the end of the announcement is from Captain Tuvo (I think he’s your captain). Captain Tuvo is Italian so if the announcer’s accent is British, then the CD also utilizes Captain Tuvo’s signature sign-off. I agree with your assessment regarding most all CDs: it really doesn’t matter to me who they are and there are very few who I’ve had direct interactions with and/or who are memorable, regardless of the cruise line. Again, thank you for sharing all of the information about your cruise with us!!

Now, if I was in a YC lounge right now, I would order a salted caramel espresso martini to wake up then maybe I wouldn’t make silly mistakes!! And @FamilyAtSea.travel, really enjoying your thread…thank you so very much for taking the time to post!

Thanks for catching this while I had time to fix my mistake! I had just been reading the Celebrity thread then switched to MSC thread…without switching my brain too LOL

What about having the comped specialty dining for lunch so you can continue to enjoy dinner in Yacht Club?

Roscoe, Do you happen to know what time of the day SWA will begin selling these new dates on 3/21? I have done a lot of googling as well as searches on the SWA website to see if anyone has noted the time for past schedule openings, but I haven’t found anything. Thank you!!

Maybe someone in YC would swap their Toblerone for the prosecco!!! We did give ours to a couple we met in YC and they too were super appreciative.

Whenever we finally get to cruise Cunard and a masquerade evening is part of the schedule, I plan on wearing the necktie I bought in Venice that depicts the cityscape…even if it’s not a proper tie for a black tie evening, it sure would seem to be a proper tie for the theme!

I’m Mrs Dock B and I heartily concur!! I’m from Alexandria and only eat gumbo when south of there!

@DaKahuna thank you for the written ship-tour explanation, as our review of the deck plans were not as clear as your description! We’ve been on Seaside and Seashore, but their layout is different enough from Divina that we wanted further input—we really appreciate your help! Now just waiting on the travel agent to return DWs call… Enjoy the rest of your cruise!!

@DaKahuna if you have a moment to offer an opinion, DW and I would really appreciate your insight. We are considering a Divina cruise in YC (this will be our 3rd MSC YC cruise) and would like a cabin as far aft on deck 15 as possible. I realize there are a couple of HC cabins there so we wouldn’t get one of those. My question is: are these YC cabins too close to the public elevators or the pool area where we’d be disturbed by noise? Thank you for your thoughts and for your review.