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I agree with those who ask why in the world would we want to disembark one day early. Well the reason being is that we are doing a back to back cruise out of different countries. Cruise #1 starts and ends in Barcelona. Cruise #2 starts and ends in SouthHampton. Now my wife and I are well seasoned travelers and cruisers, so we did know exactly what we were signing up for when we decided to see if we could actually pull this off. Debark in Barcelona starts at 7:00am...our cruise departs on the same day out of SouthHampton but not until 8:00pm at night plus we gain an hour traveling from Barcelona to London....so it is totally doable...but then we thought...what if we spend an extra day in Malta as opposed to spending a day at sea and so that is why I asked. THe ship does embark and debark out of all of the ports except for Valetta, Malta. This is why we asked....but probably should call MSC to verify. Yes, we know it is crazy to try this...but we absolutely love crazy adventures 🙂

Just checking to see if anyone knows if this is permitted. We have sailed the Med many times but this is our first ever cruise on MSC. We leave out of Barcelona and cruise for 7 days. Last day is a sea day and day prior to that is Valeta Malta. Do you know if it is possible to debark the ship in Malta (I know I may need to call MSC but checking with the hive mind first in case anyone has done this in Europe) prior to the final destination of Barcelona?

Yes...we are very adventurous...part of the draw for us to do this is to see if we can pull it off...first leg in the Med...second leg in Northern Europe...just something different to celebrate our 30th anniversary.

Hello everyone....long time cruiser, but first time on MSC. We are doing a unique back to back in December. Our first cruise on the world Europa ends at like 7:00am and then debark. Our second cruise starts in Southhampton on debark day but at 8:00pm....don't worry...if we miss the ship we will have plan B...but I am trying to figure out if there is an early debark for early flights. Plan is to leave Barcelona no later than 1:00pm (we lose an hour going back to heathrow so that helps, plus the flight is short)...I am only asking as I do not know the debark process for MSC...especially since we wont have any status....also, would it help if we upgrade to a suite from a get off the ship early suite privilege? Thanks for all of your help!!

Not sure if this helps, but we were determined to go on this cruise…and it disappeared…we are still going to med for Christmas. MSC Poesia is there and we are on Dec26-Jan5 out of Genoa. I know it’s not NCL, but if you have already booked flights and stuff…maybe you can just incur change fee and adjust to another line. Just a thought. We have never sailed MSC before so this will be a first for us.

For those with flights already booked…we just changed our cruise to the MSC Poeisa out of Genoa on Dec 26-Jan 5 in western Med. I know it is not NCL but maybe that will work if you still want to visit Europe this Christmas

Quick question to see if anyone may have any information. My wife and I were looking to book a cruise on the Epic this Christmas since it was doing an extended stay in Europe this year (there were listing it as being there from December - April). Now all of a sudden all of those dates are greyed out. I can understand a few of the cruises selling out....but that entire time period is greyed out now only a week after it was showing all available. I called NCL to see if I could book directly, and they told me that they are not showing the Epic at all for those dates. They also said it may be a glitch in their system, but three days later it is still the same. Does anyone know if they cancelled their winter European season on the Epic, or did everything really sell out? Just curious.

We had a medical evac. We had already passed Cancun, but had to turn around and meet the coast guard 15 miles off of Cancun. We lost about 2.5-3 hours of time doing that. Combine that along with the fact that due to propulsion issues, the Vista cannot sail at full speed …this we were late. We barely made our flight out of IAH by 2 minutes, and we had a 2:30pm departure

I am in one right now…11221….no noise at and I think part of the gym is above me. Gym is on 12 for reference.

Just checking in with everyone….it’s been about 4 years since we have been on a carnival ship. We are currently on the Vista having a great time. Just out of curiosity….normally we get a ship pin and some sort of trinket gift for being platinum. Has that officially stopped now? We haven’t received any as of yet so I am just asking to confirm. Thanks

We have been in port in St Lucia all day today on the NCL Epic. The MSC seaside has Ben pretty much stopped just off of the island all day (we saw it when we were arriving as well as when we were on our excursion). It really hasn’t moved, and it is too far out for tendering operations. Just wondering…for reference, our port day in St Lucia when we saw the ship stopped all day was Wednesday, Dec 28.