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The free airline offer is not even Free and is nothing but hassles.

Another Drug bust on MSC Opera.

Link

Magnifica, Davina, Seaside, Orchestra, Preziosa...

Did they hire the website guys to be in charge of the security?

Make sure you lock the luggage when you get on/off the ship.

My eticket of mid May cruise also says 12 drink voucher. Knowing how incompetent it is with MSC's software enginner, I take it with a grain of salt. It's probably someone forgot to change the template and it generated that line.

Costa doesn't really provide extra value to MSC considering they are already buying a lot of new ships. MSC wants to expand to the luxury market with a global reach. Buying Costa doesn't make sense.

It really depends on what kind of issues you have. If you wanna switch/cancel/book cruise/room/excursion, they would be able to help you. 

Anything account related, promotion related, price related, website glitch checkin issues, you will have an uphill battle to fight with the US customer service. Seems like anything that requires the Main office from Genoa is lost in translation.

I am doing a mock booking for 2021 cruise, this BS about winter sailing is still up there.

MSC's website is programmed by high school kids. There are so many bugs and glitches. I have no idea how it went through testings.

same here. No followup, and no response from email.

So much for the HR reward.

I have 10% applied, and the discount dropped after I updated passenger information.

Called them and they said there are hundreds of bookings like this and the booking would need to be manually adjusted.

She said it could take two weeks as my booking is in Dec.

If I don't get it fixed by 4/21, I would need to cancel and rebook with coupons.

I used to use UK's 3 plan and Orange Mundo sim card for traveling in Europe. Mundo starts charging maintenance fee so I stopped using it. I still keep UK's 3 sim card. You can top up when you need to use it. Buy add-on when you need to use it. 5GB for £15 is what I usually get. Most of the time I am only getting 3G speed.

Now I just use Google Fi, $20/line + $10/GB data. I get full LTE speed and cap at $60 Max per month. I don't need to worry about overcharge and I can pause the plan when I come back to the States.

https://fi.google.com/about/international-rates/

I am walking from the Grand Hotel Savoia.

You can check this map for reference.

check ebay.

So I made 3 bookings with 10%. I went to the website to do the web check-in to fill in passport information.

Bang, all 3 bookings got repriced and the balance due went up with 10% dropped.

Dealing with MSC is nothing but frustration. Called the CSR and they said there are hundreds of bookings like this, and they will need to ask the Main Office to reapply the code but it would take some time since my booking is months away.

Worst case I would just cancel and rebook again and hope that they don't pull this stunt after final payment.

Try here:

https://www.msccruisesusa.com/en-us/Web-Check-in/Web-Check-In.aspx

There should be a link to download eticket

ya, even my 2021 booking shows that same line. 

I have always been able to put 1 as deposit and login to use another one to lower the balance. 

try incognito mode maybe or clean cache.

I had a beg bug issue with an AirB&B in Santorini ($250/nt room.) I and my wife both were bitten and immediately showed big sores with itchiness.  

I found a couple live one and took pictures to report to AirB&B. 

Couldn't sleep at all and have to move at 3 am. Tried washing and drying all the clothes, but still manage to have a couple got into our house. Took me a month to eventually kill all of them with Diatomaceous Earth.

Now I avoid putting or opening suitcase on the carpet of the hotel floor.

I don't automatically tip tour guides or drivers that bring me from point a to point b. That is included in the excursion. Unless I know they make close to nothing, then I may give them a few bucks.

I usually only tip when they show exceptional knowledge or go an extra mile in helping me. 

The world is big. I am not going to stay in Florida just so I can visit some similar islands multiple times for cheap. Most of the islands are quite boring to me. 

Just get a new coupon. I used it to book 3.

51 minutes ago, AerynSun_JohnCrighton said:

I thought the MSC site says E tickets won't be given till 20 days out? 

When it comes to MSC website functionality, what they say is usually irrelevant.

I can print eticket 70+ days before cruise. 

ya, my e-ticket in may also says 12 drinks voucher.

It's probably just incompetent IT guys forgot to change the template that generates these e-tickets.

1 hour ago, NLH Arizona said:

Then how would you explain that MSC only got one award, when some folks on here say they are so much better than NCL?

I think the consensus is that MSC YC is comparable to Haven, but generally, NCL has a better product. MSC is less known in the US and they don't have that many offerings here. There aren't that many US members on the MSC board. 

The itinerary is boring. Most are going to a secondary city in Japan for a couple days.

Nagasaki, Kumamoto or Fukuoka from Shanghai.

There are plenty of options for Chinese tourists to visit Japan and they would rather go to Osaka, Kyoto or Tokyo.

19 minutes ago, spanishguy1970 said:

I have a similar situation. I have  a question for you, did NCL try to charge you more fees for upgrading to a balcony? I booked an inside guarantee on my coming cruise and after final payment the Balcony dropped to the point it was cheaper than my inside guarantee.  I  called my TA and she upgraded my stateroom  to a Balcony guarantee, but then she said NCL wanted to charge me fees for making the change, which quite frankly i kind of doubt that was the case and she wanted to make herself look good that she got me the upgrade for free...🤣

I don't think I paid any fee. The balcony price was cheaper than my interior + bidding to upgrade to oceanview. I guess I would need to pay a higher DSC if I upgrade to a suite.