MSC Divina - Daily Blog 19 September 2021

[Lbsahm]

I’m sitting in my stateroom waiting to head to sea. 
Here are my thoughts about boarding. 
1) Come whenever you want. No one even looked at our scheduled boarding time, even if we were three hours early. 
2) Aurea Priority boarding didn’t mean a thing. 
3) First stop upon arriving is the metal detector. Stop number two was having someone check our Vaccination card and Negative (yay!), tests. Those two steps took ten minutes total. 
From there we queued up for a 15 minute wait for the “gate agent” to issue us our room key, scan our passports and take a photo.  He also scanned our vaccination records. 
Once the formalities were done we walked up the ship bridge and boarded. Total time I’d say was a half hour. 
Entering the ship a crew member scanned our room card and welcomed us aboard. 
A string of crew tried to direct us toward a photo station but we managed to break free and grab an elevator to our room, which was read, even though we were told rooms weren’t available until two pm. 
The room, a B2 Aurea balcony on deck 11 is nice. Nothing special to note about it. 
We headed to the buffet, grabbed a bite and wandered the ship for a bit, stopping to book a couple of massages at the spa. 
That’s it for now. Maybe more later….

[SeaBrz]

Awesome review and cannot wait to read more! Happy Sail Away!

[deliver42]

Been on the Divina twice. Great ship. Enjoy.

[green snakes]

Thanks for the info.  We we're sailing her in 3 weeks.

Please keep us posted on where we need mask (I hope only inside),

does the staff serve you at the buffet & how crowded is the ship (35%)?

  

[ChattTenn]

Have a wonderful cruise.  If Covid turns out negative (both vaccinated) we will be on her in October.

 

[green snakes]

Forgot to ask----how are they doing muster drill?  Like Royal with an app or do we have to stand on deck?

[rkacruiser]

Best wishes for an enjoyable cruise!  And, thanks for your willingness to take the rest of us virtually!  

[98Charlie]

23 hours ago, green snakes said:

Forgot to ask----how are they doing muster drill?  Like Royal with an app or do we have to stand on deck?

There is another live feed from a CC member (CLICK HERE) where she describes the muster drill situation. It sounds very reasonable.

[wgeddings]

Thanks!  We leave on the Divina next week (9-30).  Anxious to hear more and see the answers to questions asked above.  

 

Very interested about the boarding time.  Anyone else have recent experience and able to confirm that they did not check the "scheduled boarding time"?  I would hate to go and be turned away if your experience was a fluke but I would also like to board as soon as we get to the port.  We have a B2 balcony cabin too so loved the pictures!  Thanks.  

 

hope you have a great cruise and I will look forward to seeing more.  

[ddlb]

Hope your Wi-Fi is working OK!  We will be on the September 26 sailing. Could you possibly post the drink package price list since I don’t have the drink package and I’m curious what the prices are. Is your Wi-Fi working OK? What’s the entertainment like? Keep us posted thanks. First timer for the MSC!