Tour language: Multilingual - to be confirmed on board

[conquesodor]

Hello! I know there are excursion specific boards, but my question is about booking a "multilingual" tour through MSC. I will be sailing MSC for the first time later this year in Europe and some of the tours offered state that the language is "Multilingual - to be confirmed on board." As an English only speaker, I'm curious how this works. If I'm on a bus with 50 other people, is the guide repeating everything in multiple languages?

 

Thanks!
Ken

Edited March 11 by conquesodor
clarification

[Mark_T]

3 hours ago, conquesodor said:

I'm curious how this works. If I'm on a bus with 50 other people, is the guide repeating everything in multiple languages?

 

Yes, that is exactly how it works.

 

Typically just two or at most three languages though in my experience, and it wasn't really a problem. 

[conquesodor]

Thanks, Mark. That's good to hear.

[perakcruiser]

9 hours ago, conquesodor said:

I will be sailing MSC for the first time later this year in Europe and some of the tours offered state that the language is "Multilingual - to be confirmed on board." As an English only speaker, I'm curious how this works. If I'm on a bus with 50 other people, is the guide repeating everything in multiple languages?

They plan to have one bus for French, one for Spanish, German, Italian... English is always included as lingua franca. Sometimes they have not enough guests for a "Spanish bus", so they have to put the Spanish speakers on the English only bus.  So "to be confirmed on board" is just a phrase the MSC lawyers put in so you cannot complain. Not relevant for English speakers apart from cruises in South America (I guess) or Japan/China. 

[alserrod]

16 hours ago, conquesodor said:

Hello! I know there are excursion specific boards, but my question is about booking a "multilingual" tour through MSC. I will be sailing MSC for the first time later this year in Europe and some of the tours offered state that the language is "Multilingual - to be confirmed on board." As an English only speaker, I'm curious how this works. If I'm on a bus with 50 other people, is the guide repeating everything in multiple languages?

 

Thanks!
Ken

 

 

MSC will offer six different languages and will try to offer a different bus (or several languages) for each language.

In case of not being enough for "one bus, one language" they can join two ones in a same bus.

In addition, they aren't saying "which" languages you will have available. Thus in case of not having a minimal.... if they finally do not offer a language they aren't lying at all

 

 

Which cruise will you do?

 

 

[conquesodor]

Thanks for the information!

We will be on MSC World Europa later this year, Nov 25 to Dec 2. Beginning and ending in Civitavecchia.

[alserrod]

3 minutes ago, conquesodor said:

Thanks for the information!

We will be on MSC World Europa later this year, Nov 25 to Dec 2. Beginning and ending in Civitavecchia.

 

 

If you need information about Barcelona, I have posted a lot of in the seciont "ports of call"  but do not hesitate to ask for it.