CruiseScrooge

I had a cabin number before and even the previous upgrade offer emails showed the cabin number. Now the upgrade offer shows my cabin as G0000. I have upgrade offer emails sent one minute yesterday apart. The first email has my cabin number and the next one has G00000. I have been on msc before and understand the bid system and that msc IT isn't bad as it was 5-10 years but it still is a hot mess.

Has this happened to anyone else? My inside cabin location wasn't very good in my opinion so i doubt they booted me for someone who insisted on having it.

I must be unlucky. The bowling alleys have always been messed up with at least one lane pretty much in disrepair.

MSC has supply chain problems in Florida for their food and drink. It is nuts it can 36 hours into a cruise and brands of booze, soda pop and some fresh fruits are already gone. One ship sailing from TX or CA is going to be the 3 stooges supply chain wise for a long time imho. I'm a fan but MSC has had years to get getter at customer service and I.T. and supply chain. I'll be on Mera out of NYC soon and i'm going on record predicting the supply chain will be a mess.

i don't like the cabins that are next to the cabin hallway and the elevator lobby. People are waiting for the vators and you open your cabin door and they can see all the way through your cabin. And your cabin is at the busy intersection of vator lobby and cabin hallway. I kinda think we are talking about the same cabins.

pints of milk, skim and chocolate milk during breakast hours. coffee, decaff, hot and cold tea 6-8 tea bag flavors, some artificial sweetner brands, coffee mate type creamer.

The families of the crew members who died or were severely burned in the NCL Norway explosion may have a different view on how well NCL maintains the ships.

You get your card as the csr's are processing your paperwork in the terminal. Often passengers are asked not to go directly to their rooms once onboard because they aren't ready.

You won't have trouble finding food. The ship has to have food available for the guests who stayed onboard from the last cruise. The regular buffet will be open also and busy as heck of course.

I kinda knew about transbridge. What i mean is i must have had a old link from covid time because every time i used it in the last two years it said no service. Now doing a web search i found it has service again. Two mistakes on one already booked cruise. Assuming the MSC Mera went out of Manhattan and goofing up with Transbridge.

Especially from N.J. or P.A.

I had to do elder care for quite a while and now that i'm cruising again i was disappointed to find out Carnival killed the tiny hidden away free fish and chips station on the Conquest class ships and put in a pay place. Norwegian and their O'sheehans/The Local pub is my choice. Costa,MSC,Carnival, NCL i've cruised but got the the other non luxury lines already booked or in the crosshairs.

Maybe the buffet food is all in one place because so many languages are spoken on the ships. I'd find it frustrating to have to go around thinking ok frittura di pesce is at the bow and is a tiny fish and chips booth on a ship in italy. I'd like to just walk by everything in one go.

Nope. What a mess it would be if strangers sharing a cabin on a themed cruise had to find each other.

That explains much. I was doing a real ***** on my last cruise. Now i'm thinking kids or drunks from YC were riding the elevators for 15-30 minutes at a time hogging the darn things.

When the juices need to be refilled the wait staff isn't exactly johnny on the spot and pouncing into action. They have a lemonade drink i swear is half battery acid at least to me. Mango and strawberry- kiwi come to mind. Water and ice are at drink dispensors. You can make hot or cold tea with i'd say about 6-8 varieties of tea bags. coffee and decaff. Creamer is the coffee mate liquid stuff in several flavors and occasionally some milk or cream in a small pitcher. A few artificial sweetners and sugar of course. Several people were doing cartwheels because there was Stevia sweetner. milk, skim and chocolate milk pints in buffet in 2 spots but easy to walk by without noticing during breakfast. grab one or two and but in your frig.

I haven't been on VV yet but it seems the dining system and specialty restaurants isn't very forgiving to solos or people in a group like a singles group who don't know if they might meet someone while on the cruise to have dinner with and so much is already booked when they try several days into the cruise.

The frig opens from left to right. Worst cruise evar. Needs more hard booze also.

I read it. I missed it. Thank you.

I'm going solo soon and my upgrade offer from balcony to YC email says it is based on 2 people. MSC and its woeful customer service and IT makes me nervous to put in a bid and maybe get charged for two.

I think some web pages or layouts have been redesigned the last few days. Anyway things just look different or new to me on web pages. Maybe POS and the image is just a placeholder while they change things.

I hate Msc's use of cookies. My mailbox is filled with my mock bookings and i have to gleem through them for the actual booked ones. And i don't fill in my passenger info when doing mock bookings. Oh i do forget to clear cookies or i'm bopping around using both regular and the inprivate/incognito bvrowsers sometimes.

Flying or driving or however i was getting there would be a big part of my decision over the holidays. I wouldn't want to get into a Planes, Trains, Automobiles or Southwest Airlines fiasco. I only travel by my own car during holidays.

Tables for two [used by one] are hard to get and sadly tables for two rarely are given to solo passengers. Why make one person happy when you can make two? Just to repeat ask to be seated with other solos or ask to be moved if you are uncomfortable. Nothing sucks more than being at a large table and your tablemates are family and friends who have a this is our vacation why the heck are you here attitude. Anytime seating can be great or a disaster. On the plus side with anytime seating you are usually seated very quickly because they can shoe horn you in while the large group collects dust waiting.