Morgsmom

Yes, the Easy Plus is not free, per se, as you have paid for it in the fare (there is a stripped down fare that does not include drinks). However you can easily upgrade to the Premium package for the difference per person, per day. If you do this in advance (on the MSC website or through your travel agent) you will avoid the 15% service fee that you will encounter if you do this onboard.

Wow, I've been on the Divina 6x in the past 8 months; don't think she looks tired or run down at all (at least in the main guest spaces). Have I had a few cabins with sofas that could be replaced? Certainly.

They had some paper wones available for guest use

If you give them enough heads up (day before) they can arrange for something. Otherwise you will be limited to what's on island

Eataly was closed permanently on the Divina. As of last month they were enforcing masks during check in and while walking onto the ship at Port Canaveral.

Super easy peasy in the Caribbean. Since MSC dining times are later than other cruise lines to begin with most families traveling w/ kids will opt for early dining (which can be as "late" at 6:30). 2nd seating is 8:15 or 8:30. It's a 50/50 call if you get assigned late dining to begin with. In the chance that you don't, go to the MDR on embarkation day around 2pm (times will be posted) and change to late dining with the Maitre D'. In Europe, the situation and generally reversed with late dining being preferred (in my experience.)

No one can say as no one has sailed her yet 😉

Just to clarify, the cappucino would have a charge if you did not have a drink package. However, the food on display is free - pastries in the morning, sandwiches mid day, desserts at night. The gelato (on the "left" side of the bar) carries a charge.

If you book online you MUST book the same package, in which case you should book the lower non alcoholic package. You can upgrade once onboard so you MIGHT be able to just upgrade your wife as they will happily take the extra money (and the 15% gratuity on the difference). The whole point is that they don't want drink packages being 'shared'. As far as table mates, you can always un-link your reservations if you think it's an issue, then ask to be sat together once onboard on the first day. But since drinks are so hard to come by in the main dining room I don't think that having different packages for different staterooms at the same dinner table will be such an issue. (It's not like they leave the bottle of wine on the table as they might on a European sailing)

Hum.... the best answer is to call them and ask. You likely talked to the UK reps who may have their own rules. Likely it is end of business day the following day, but you never know. Tomorrow in the US is the 4th of July and a holiday, so MSC in the states will likely be closed.

Both Hubby and I have traveled solo on MSC on various cruises when the other couldn't accompany. It's certainly different than traveling with your spouse, but we each enjoyed our solo cruises very much. Gives you more time to talk to the crew!

And if people keep doing such things which cost the business time, effort and money (booking, cancelling, re-booking the same cruise) pretty soon the deposit WILL BE non-refundable.

I'm sorry, but YOU are the one who keeps changing your booking. It is not their job to keep changing things because of changed promotions. That's what they are - promotions. In the T&C they will likely say that they are for new bookings ONLY. Having the cruiseline jump through hoops to change things causes more churn in a system that is already flawed (MSC's IT dept, billing dept, etc). Off my soapbox for now. Yes, I get is a couple of hundred bucks, but most of us BOOK our cruise and don't look back.

If you go to crepe vendor in Paris you will get a crepe wrapped in paper to be consumed while walking about...

That's a dangerous move, in my opinion. It will take at least a couple of months to get your deposit back on the first booking. Is it worth it for a few dollars would be my question? You may end up worse off....

I think it's about $120 for one hour for either 1 or 2 people.

Just to chime in, it's not really an upgrade "fairy" if you are bidding for an upgrades. The fairy sprinkles her dust when you get upgraded by the cruiseline (for their own benefit)

Ship? Sailing? In Europe you pay the service charges up front so it could be that. More info needed to help.

Customs in Port Canaveral is VERY VERY easy for US Citizens. There will be a separate line for Canadians but that is fast.

WOW!!! You are an adventurous soul! Congratulations on your spontaneity and enjoy your cruise.

Remember that there are lots of folks bidding for those cabins - make sure that you have signed up for email communications as I've never heard of someone calling to get an upgrade. From my understanding any paid for upgrade would be at the fare difference between your booked cabin and desired cabin as it was at the time you booked.

Well DH and I are snuggly back in our cabins by 9 - 9:30 so I cannot at all speak on nightlife. (Though you'll see us walking the decks at 6:00am so I can give guidance on that 🤩). I do not think that MSC has sailed out of New York before (though I could be wrong) but I would imagine that there will be a lot of local tri-state folks on the cruise which would infuse a certain New York ambiance. (Whether it's Upper East side or Bridge & Tunnel is another story...) To me, Yacht Club on MSC > a balcony on NCL. But that's my personal opinion as we really enjoy staying in the bubble of the YC.

FCCs are not transferable to friends/family unless you did some weird booking that included them in the room and they either no-showed or you did a name change later.

Heinekin 0.0 is NOT included in the Easy package.

Pro tip: get 2x the Lobster salad and skip the bread 🙂