!!! DIVINA !!! Eastern Caribbean ^_^ The Ultimate Review and Complete Pictorial Guide

As you can expect from an Italian cruise line, there are lots of pasta choices.

The pizza aboard Divina is absolutely fantastic!

Wow nice start to the review looking forward to more.

Good start. Thanks for the review, keep it coming :)

That app it's quite interesting

They have some really nice salad here from time to time, you can also add more items to them from the salad bar.

That buffet was kept impeccably throughout the entire cruise.

For those who don't know me, I am a big cheese lover!!! Unfortunately, I am lactose intolerant, but with the help of medicine I am able to eat moderate amounts of it. Divina had a really nice cheese selection on the buffet.

Lamb curry. I am not a fan of curry, but this one was actually pretty tasty. I think my mom got a little.

I actually found some really good items in the kids section. I suggest you go there and check it out, don't be shy, lol. There were a lot of adults there throughout the cruise.

Ironically, the only shrimp that you will see on the buffet are in the children's section by the form of popcorn shrimp. You can see them there. They were really good, I just wish more seafood was available in the buffet.

Wow nice start to the review looking forward to more.

Thank you, more coming :)

Ugh, I can relate with the European websites! When I was living in Italy last year, it was such a pain in the butt using the European versions of OTAs and company sites. I booked Disneyland Paris on their website which is far behind the Walt Disney World website already... add to that the Italian version. And I had the lesser version of the NCL website when booking the Epic. I did end up using a VPN to access the US-version of NCL, but I was really surprised at how far behind Europe seems to be in website development (though that was what our websites looked like 3-5 years ago). I bet Europe would be a great relocation option for a computer science major.

Good start. Thanks for the review, keep it coming :)

 

That app it's quite interesting

The app worked pretty well for us, I would like to see how it evolves.

Thank you for the nice comment :)

Ugh, I can relate with the European websites! When I was living in Italy last year, it was such a pain in the butt using the European versions of OTAs and company sites. I booked Disneyland Paris on their website which is far behind the Walt Disney World website already... add to that the Italian version. And I had the lesser version of the NCL website when booking the Epic. I did end up using a VPN to access the US-version of NCL, but I was really surprised at how far behind Europe seems to be in website development (though that was what our websites looked like 3-5 years ago). I bet Europe would be a great relocation option for a computer science major.

Hmmmm, I have never considered that. I guess I should consider myself that I live in the US. Thanks for input Victoria, it is really nice to see you here :).

You can see your logo in my sig :D

Thank you once again

Wow, that buffet review is extensive! The desserts on our cruise on MSC Fantasia were very good as well. My partner also loved the ribs. And I agree that cheeses were so good :)

Ok, so let's talk buffet food. I will just try to be as honest as possible. I found out it to be ok. A lot of reviewers say it's fantastic. Others say that it is inedible. I thought it was to be just about average. Definitely a much larger selection than I find at home :D, but not up to par with all the other cruise lines that I have sailed on. The main problem that I found was the absence of variety, especially for breakfast. They have about 5 stations with the same eggs and bacon. There was also never eggs Benedict and smoked salmon, you could only get it in the main dinning room.

The taste of the food was good on some items, while others not so much. Personally, I did not care for the burgers at all, the meat-tasted kind of funny and they just seemed like they sat on the heater for too long. Needless to state that the only burger that I tried was that one, and one on Great Stirrup Cay.

The pizza is absolutely PHENOMENAL!!!! The problem is that one cannot live on pizza for 7 days, especially when you have a lactose intolerance problem like myself.

The pasta was good for the most part, but I think I can pull off a better fettuccine Alfredo than the one they have aboard.

The meats are good, tasty and tender, just wish there were more of them.

Fish is rather limited and a lot of the days, and finding tilapia and swai fish is very common. A few times they had mahi mahi and other options. By the way the swai fish smelled horrible, I got a picture of it. No one touched the tray. I think there was one piece missing. Everyone avoided, personally I would not have put that fish out there.

Seafood… Good Luck… Rare sightings, I found calamity once, and like I said popcorn shrimp in the kid’s section.

All that said, you just have to come back and realize how much I paid for the cruise. It was good food, you cannot board a ship of this price and expect the food that I have received in say Disney or Celebrity. The main problem here is that the ship is absolutely gorgeous, it is one of the nicest ships that I have sailed on. So when you have such an amazing ship, with this type of food, it has a tendency to throw you off guard. Well, at least that is what I think. Because the food was somewhat comparable to my NCL Sky food, but for the Sky it was decent food. MSC Divina is in an odd bracket. I will try to talk more about this. They are trying to please too many people from different cultures and ethnicities and that in itself is almost an impossible thing to do. Like I said I will approach this later on.

Oh, by the way the president of MSC USA was aboard our sailing. I never saw him, not a knew what he looked like on the first place.

Here is my food. Everything was enjoyable, but the burger, I took 1/2 a bite and that was it.

We sat and ate our lunch, my uncle and aunt also got more food. Their personal opinion was that everything was phenomenal. I am simply sharing this detail. Mom knew me better, she asked me how everything was, but she already knew how I was about to answer.

That terminal reminds me of the Airport in Denver, very neat!

The terminal is very nice and organized. My family was very excited. Remember this was my uncle's first cruise. He was taking pictures at a faster rate than I was. Funny note one of the security officers asked him to stop and she personally erased the pictures that he took there. Meanwhile, hundredths of people walked by taking pictures of everything. It is impossible to keep control on that. People will take pictures no matter what. After all, it is the beginning of the vacation!!!

 

Guess where mom is?

 

 

They had a delightful stand there with water and juice, the ironic part is that it was not offered at any of the ports while boarding the vessel again. Personally, I much rather have the drinks after a very hot day at the port!

 

We all had a drink. I mixed the pineapple juice with some Pellegrino.

 

 

It was early in the morning, so the line went by quickly.

 

 

Checking in was really amusing! My family is quite loud, and everything that happened was an event. For starters the new Colombian passports are a mess and they don't work half the time. So we were all joking around about it, the lady at the counter told us that we were going to be a fun group. Later on 3 of our nationalities changed to Cameroon, she said that I must have messed up. Um, there is no way in hell that I would have messed up. I triple check everything for errors and I printed the check-in paper like 5 times over the issues with my cousin. Not a big deal, she just had to modify it. I just found it funny that she blamed me, after we all know how useless their website is...

 

After we checked in we found 3 empty chairs and mom took possession of them. She proceeded to give everyone their motion sickness medicine. I declined. Honestly, there was no reason to take them so early. The ship was scheduled to leave port at 7pm. Either way I bought a coke for them and they all took them.

 

There was a nice window there and my uncle and I went to get some pictures.

 

 

Hi Gambee, Have been waiting for your review & here it is today! You & Chris both do the best ones. I'll feel like I am cruising on the Divina & looking forward to your family fun with relatives- Linda:)

The pizza was incredible! I couldn't believe it was that good and was available almost 20 hours a day. We also got a pizza in La Cantina di bacco. It was a step above for a reasonable up charge.

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The corridors are like a maze, there are so many turns and twists. It was kind of funny. We kept turning and cracking up. Anyway, I much rather the long hallways, they look nicer and make the ship easier to navigate.

After lunch, we decided to head back down to the room and check out the rooms.

Mom had a fantastic handicap sized room. It was very spacious and great views. The room itself had less storage than my room, I am not quite sure why, but no one was complaining. The decor of the room was nice and it had an elegant feel to it. It reminded me of the Celebrity silhouette stateroom. The TV was on the small size, and hard to see from the bed.

Like I said the rooms are really nice!

I did take two videos of both staterooms, but I have no idea where they are...

Wow, that buffet review is extensive! The desserts on our cruise on MSC Fantasia were very good as well. My partner also loved the ribs. And I agree that cheeses were so good :)

Lots more to come, I review food thoroughly. Thank you for following along :)

The pizza was incredible! I couldn't believe it was that good and was available almost 20 hours a day. We also got a pizza in La Cantina di bacco. It was a step above for a reasonable up charge.

 

 

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We did not try the La Cantina di bacco, but heard great things about it.

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Hi Gambee, Have been waiting for your review & here it is today! You & Chris both do the best ones. I'll feel like I am cruising on the Divina & looking forward to your family fun with relatives- Linda:)

Hello there Linda, thank you very much for the compliment. I hope this review is as much fun for you, as the cruise was for us :)

Can't wait to read the rest! Love your reviews Gambee!!!!!

That bathroom was huge!!!

I loved this room, I wish I could afford this size rooms during all my cruises. Oh well, LoL

Following too! Thanks Gambee. looking forward to more.

I have been silently following your reviews. They are wonderful. Sorry to hear about your Grandmothers passing. Hope this cruise was soothing for you and your family.

Can't wait to read the rest! Love your reviews Gambee!!!!!

Thank you :)

Subscribing and looking forward to more!

Following too! Thanks Gambee. looking forward to more.

I have been silently following your reviews. They are wonderful. Sorry to hear about your Grandmothers passing. Hope this cruise was soothing for you and your family.

Thank you for your kind thoughts, they are very much appreciated. Hard times as such, merit so time off from everything. Divina did that for us :)

Fllowing along as well love your reviews I remember your Breeze review got me excited for my cruise on it and it was everything you said it was

Just look at the SIZE!!!

Their balcony was really nice and long!

My room was also very nice. The only bad thing about it is that it was right next to a wall. So I basically had no aft view since the wall blocking everything. If I had the option to select a room, I would never book this room, what is the purpose of booking a balcony if half the view is blocked by a wall. Remember, we had balcony guarantee reservations.