Like how to turn on the lights! Everyone single person I talked to ended up calling customer service and reporting that there was no electricity in their cabin. Ends up you have to leave your cruise card in a very obscure slot by the door for the lights to work. Also, there is a switch that will turn off the main lights but will let you use the bedside lights at night time. For a while we thought it was all or nothing-dark or bright lights.
Also, don't forget to double bolt the door when you are in your cabin. If you don't have the cruise card in the slot and the door is not bolted from the inside then the cabin steward can walk right in. My roommate left to work out and took her key card while I tried to sleep in and I got a surprise awakening!
Also, there is trash basket in the bathroom in the bottom cabinet. I thought there was only one trash can for the whole cabin for a few days.
The balcony was nice but there was a lot of salt spray. When it wasn't wet then there was bits of dried salt everywhere that came off on your clothes and skin. They did clean them once during the cruise.
The internet is really slow. I bought the 100 minute package and it wasted so many of my minutes for just logging on and off. I ended up going into the cyber cafe and paying the 5.00 for 10 minutes after I ran through my 100 minutes but it was still slow.
I was on the KLOVE Christian cruise so I don't think my experience will be exactly the same as the regular Divina Caribbean cruise. The interaction with staff was very limited as KLOVE provided activities, etc. The ship's staff was polite but very reserved.
I do have to say embarkation in Miami was challenging. It took us 2.5 hours of standing in line before we got on the ship. Also, our first port was Montego Bay and we decided to take the ship's bus excursion to Doctor's Cave Beach. Bad decision. All of the ship excursions were backed up in the terminal and all of us had to stand in line for hours and hours to get on our excursion. The Carnival Magic was also in port and I don't think Montego Bay can handle that many people. Traffic was really backed up and many people were late coming back from their excursions. One of the excursions was so late coming back due to traffic that they had to have a police escort!
Our only other port was Grand Cayman and tendering went quickly both ways. Which makes me think that the back up in Montego Bay was due to the Jamaican excursion staff and not the ship's fault.
The food was good and I stuck to salads for the most part which were very good. Someone mentioned on this forum to stick with Italian food and their pasta and pizza was great.
I think I am going to see if KLOVE goes back to using Carnival after their contract is up with MSC in 2017. I am looking for a little bit more fun for when the bands aren't playing. All in all, it was a great cruise and the ship is just lovely. I so enjoyed the tasteful decor!
Things I wish MSC had told me about the Divina
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Like how to turn on the lights! Everyone single person I talked to ended up calling customer service and reporting that there was no electricity in their cabin. Ends up you have to leave your cruise card in a very obscure slot by the door for the lights to work. Also, there is a switch that will turn off the main lights but will let you use the bedside lights at night time. For a while we thought it was all or nothing-dark or bright lights.
Also, don't forget to double bolt the door when you are in your cabin. If you don't have the cruise card in the slot and the door is not bolted from the inside then the cabin steward can walk right in. My roommate left to work out and took her key card while I tried to sleep in and I got a surprise awakening!
Also, there is trash basket in the bathroom in the bottom cabinet. I thought there was only one trash can for the whole cabin for a few days.
The balcony was nice but there was a lot of salt spray. When it wasn't wet then there was bits of dried salt everywhere that came off on your clothes and skin. They did clean them once during the cruise.
The internet is really slow. I bought the 100 minute package and it wasted so many of my minutes for just logging on and off. I ended up going into the cyber cafe and paying the 5.00 for 10 minutes after I ran through my 100 minutes but it was still slow.
I was on the KLOVE Christian cruise so I don't think my experience will be exactly the same as the regular Divina Caribbean cruise. The interaction with staff was very limited as KLOVE provided activities, etc. The ship's staff was polite but very reserved.
I do have to say embarkation in Miami was challenging. It took us 2.5 hours of standing in line before we got on the ship. Also, our first port was Montego Bay and we decided to take the ship's bus excursion to Doctor's Cave Beach. Bad decision. All of the ship excursions were backed up in the terminal and all of us had to stand in line for hours and hours to get on our excursion. The Carnival Magic was also in port and I don't think Montego Bay can handle that many people. Traffic was really backed up and many people were late coming back from their excursions. One of the excursions was so late coming back due to traffic that they had to have a police escort!
Our only other port was Grand Cayman and tendering went quickly both ways. Which makes me think that the back up in Montego Bay was due to the Jamaican excursion staff and not the ship's fault.
The food was good and I stuck to salads for the most part which were very good. Someone mentioned on this forum to stick with Italian food and their pasta and pizza was great.
I think I am going to see if KLOVE goes back to using Carnival after their contract is up with MSC in 2017. I am looking for a little bit more fun for when the bands aren't playing. All in all, it was a great cruise and the ship is just lovely. I so enjoyed the tasteful decor!