Cruising during the pandemics on MSC SEASIDE in the Med Sea (May/June 2021)

[HeinBloed]

So - the blog has been completed.

 

Day 1 of the cruise starting with the embarkation:

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-11-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-12-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

The voyage started actually with a pre-cruise

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-0a-auf-dem-weg-zuron-way-to-msc.html

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-0b1-auf-dem-weg-zuron-way-to-msc.html

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-0b2-auf-dem-weg-zuron-way-to-msc.html

 

and some more personal words, to explain why we did not start two month earlier on MSC GRANDIOSA:

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/03/msc-grandiosa-2103-28032021-march-21-28.html

[HeinBloed]

Day 2 in Genoa, Italy:

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-2-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

 

Day at Sea 3

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/seetagday-at-sea-3-auf-deron-msc-seaside.html

 

Day 4 in Valletta, Malta (meanwhile replaced by Marseille, France)

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-4-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

 

Day 5 in Syracuse, Italy

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/05/tagday-5-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

 

Day 6 in Taranto, Italy

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/06/tagday-6-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

 

Day at Sea 7

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/06/seetagday-at-sea-7-auf-deron-msc-seaside.html

 

 

Day 8 Disembarkation in Civitavecchia, Italy, and dinner in the Vatican

 

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/06/tagday-81-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/06/tagday-82-auf-deron-msc-seaside-in.html

 

 

Return journey on day 9

 

https://heinbloed-msc.blogspot.com/2021/06/tagday-9-nach-derafter-msc-seaside-in.html

 

Cruising during the pandemic... I consider it a perfectly acceptable risk that I am taking.

 

Much is being done on board to keep me healthy. It could be a little more.

For example, neighbors in the corridor have been isolated, and so have our cabin stewards and butlers. But that should have been communicated more openly to test ourselves every day, for example, and not only on day 6 of the trip when the crew detected the symptoms on day 2.

 

I found the shore excursions more problematic. There were really great ones, like in Syracuse and where the guide also saw his duty and just the opposite in Taranto, where the guide did not care whether parts of her group would not come along and would therefore automatically be excluded from the re-embarkation if you follow your own rules.

 

However, what was new for me was the prison fever of the crew, who had only been on the job for a month and were not allowed to go ashore.

 

I have never seen it so openly that conflicts are carried out openly in front of guests, and guests are no longer in the foreground.

 

And yet I booked again.

 

Cruising is just too good to let go. Until October on the MSC MAGNIFICA.

[HeinBloed]

 

Correction of the collage for Day 6...

[dritan]

Great - look forward to reading this - even though I suspect I won't be going on the MSC Seaside after all in August due to living on Plague Island ;-(

I first read your blogs year ago when about to go on NCL - so great to see you blogging again!

[dexddd]

Looks like Robert Balla is on.

[HeinBloed]

39 minutes ago, dexddd said:

Looks like Robert Balla is on.

 You are right!

[vagabonda]

It looks like the ship was empty, is that true?  I am sailing in 10 days and hope to find limited capacity.

 

Giovanna

[HeinBloed]

1 hour ago, vagabonda said:

It looks like the ship was empty, is that true?  I am sailing in 10 days and hope to find limited capacity.

 

Giovanna

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