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Wait, you sure you weren't at EWR with outdated tech? I was shocked when we landed at EWR and walked off plane. Thought it was different airport. You held back they are tearing down the old and putting up new. Years ago when we flew to LHR the Iceland volcano was affecting many flights and worried about cancels. Backup was Cunard seven day over there. Last fall on Prima we had two days in Iceland and interesting how they use all that thermal energy.

Have a great time. Safe travels. Hotel has cruise ship toilet for practice. The pooch is sad again but not sure who owner is if other place only allows carts.

Saw those reports too. We just sailed Mera and snacks there every day. We sailed Mera then Divinia b2b right after startup. Very different experiences even under those circumstances.

News to us after eight trips about any free laundry.

Quiet. That is why we have no ncl bookings. And no, the free at sea charges are because fdr implemented them and the free movies were low on upcharge list imo.

we had snacks all day in tsl on Mera a few weeks back.

One thing they have in the restaurant is a ton of wines at the ready. Other drinks are per order and a wait. And a wait.

Welcome to CC and insights after one week.

I guess post 11and 12 first I've seen.

Lounge usually at least a solo in late afternoon into evenings. Laundry like washers and dryers? No Going to Le Muse, drop down to first encounter of pax decks, go to aft stairs, then up. Bathrooms right there too.

Makes sense now.

I guess we got lucky when we ordered a sausage pizza, not on menu, and got Jone's Dairy Farm breakfast sausage on pizza. They do offer a Supreme now with sausage but not brave enough to try. Just order the pepperoni and life good.

Apparently showing safety message after first day not a big draw.

Some of that true, others just hit or miss. As I said in a previous post, YC experience downfalls are not people generally, it is the system and setup. Captain John's review on newest ship shows improvements in next class as they have been doing, although slowly.

Right, there are a couple posts back a few pages.

I didn't spend a ton of time looking at all pay movie options or prices, but there were some for $4.99 a few weeks back on Mera. I thought that was reasonable but heck, even cheapo NCL gives around 100 ppv movies for free in Haven.

Under what conditions/offer was that from?

Don't recall what ship you are on, but Mera included internet was pretty good.

Does MSC have a Freddie level?

They actually used to have a ton of channels but vastly cut back awhile ago. They did actually add all the NFL games to in room tvs a few weeks back.

Right, Divina not around US. Our first sailing with MSC was Divinia. We have sailed twice but last was February 2022. All was good. Since first class with YC there are some things they corrected. Biggest gripe was no shade. They added a few umbrellas by pool. Walk to Le Muse. Not issue for us. We just walked down to first passenger floor, go aft, pop up to restaurant. Both times had a great time. Arthur was also on both sailings which only helps.

Having sailed MSC YC five times since restart, the first four dinners were good variety and quality. Last one, not. I see from Captain John's report they had the same menu we had one night. He's in Europe and we were US. I wonder if they are standardizing things as what I recall they varied. I saw reference to meals being Mediterranean inspired. Maybe some other area needs to inspire meals out of US. I also noticed our fridges had same contents. That also varied with Europe Pepsi, US Coke in the past. We had little glass coke bottles like Europe or Mexico. Thought that was odd. But bar had cans. Go figure.

They had elusive chocolate peanuts for check in. Our recent NYC nothing other than drinks. They finally budged from dark brown furniture in lounge. YC staffing is really the issue vs Haven. NCL goes with minimum and bare bones running them ragged. MSC staffs better numbers. Trolley of drinks is a great idea. Buffet looks great. That dinner menu same as what we had on gala night. Wasn't a fan of most. Too much seafood or things like duck we don't care for. Our fridge was identical to yours. Normally Europe was Pepsi, US coke. This was our fourth time on Mera and different from previous three. Fruit in room, we were told it would come, never did. Maybe a trial to reduce waste?? Not missed but if we had kids with they usually eat. When roaming ship we saw a note on a door 'no fruit'. Believe this was message asking for it and it was later in trip. Overall ship looks great. Have a good time.

It's 7:10 now so should be well into that cooler.

Couple other changes, ymmv. YC theater seating is now port side in the back. Butler still brings in regular line on right, not sure why changed. Soda used to be like coke zero and sprite zero in cans. In room it was coke zero in bottles and seven up zero in cans or regular sprite in bottles. Not an issue, just found odd compared to the past.