Behind the Scenes Tour

[Bracarense]

Just one, likely silly, doubt.

 

For our next cruise in a couple of weeks I tried to book a "Behind the scenes" tour that took us to the "backstage" and the commanding zones. I believe it's probably the third time we try to do it but though it's on sale, it ends saying there are no places available. On the other cruises it said the same...

 Are there so few places available or it's just poor luck/incompetence for not trying to do it more than 20 days before...

 

[Brighton Line]

On the Mega about a year ago, they split the Bridge/Engine Control Room tour on a port day from the Galley, Stage, Laundry tour that was done on a sea day. There were two groups of 20, one was on the bridge the other was in the ECR and we passed each other walking between the two.
The Galley et al tour was one large group not split.

Your best bet is to go to Shore-X desk or Concierge early in the voyage to sign up. There was an age limit, don't remember. 

[morpheusofthesea]

59 minutes ago, Bracarense said:

I tried to book a "Behind the scenes" tour that took us to the "backstage" and the commanding zones.

Here is the brochure for the Yacht Club, booked through the concierge desk in the YC. 

[freeon]

19 hours ago, Bracarense said:

Just one, likely silly, doubt.

 

For our next cruise in a couple of weeks I tried to book a "Behind the scenes" tour that took us to the "backstage" and the commanding zones. I believe it's probably the third time we try to do it but though it's on sale, it ends saying there are no places available. On the other cruises it said the same...

 Are there so few places available or it's just poor luck/incompetence for not trying to do it more than 20 days before...

 

On the Seashore last April I didn't see any options to pre book before embarkation. Just went to the excursion desk and booked it there with no problem. You could try the same.

[morpheusofthesea]

The advertising does not mention pre booking.

[Hunter2]

I pre booked mine weeks ago and they limit the numbers so maybe it's sold out???

[Bracarense]

I think that might be the situation.

 

My question was if here were so few places that it would quickly sell out on pre-booking, more than 20 days before the cruise - and it wasn't availablea week before that 😉 

 

But someone said the groups were around 20 people... that explains... maybe in another cruise 😉

[Ryan82]

On Virtuosa in June both were available pre cruise.

 

I've done the behind the scenes tour bridge and engineering on Preziosa. Was good except the engineer was too enthusiastic and we were there forever.

 

The theatre, laundry and kitchen tour on Virtuosa was really good. Highly recommend.

[Bracarense]

MSC can be strange, even with their excursions.

Once onboard I saw publicity to the Behind The Scenes Tour... Went to the desk and was told that the "full tour" didn't exist; the tour for the backstage theater, etc was only on sea day and there were 2(!!!!) bridge and engine control tours on port days.

Went to check with family the prefered schedule and when trying to book on app nothing showed.

Decided to go again to the excursion desk and simply booked "on paper" for one of the port days.

In 4 days let's see if they don't mess it up again 😁

[Corriegr]

On 8/12/2024 at 8:49 PM, Brighton Line said:

On the Mega about a year ago, they split the Bridge/Engine Control Room tour on a port day from the Galley, Stage, Laundry tour that was done on a sea day. There were two groups of 20, one was on the bridge the other was in the ECR and we passed each other walking between the two.
The Galley et al tour was one large group not split.

Your best bet is to go to Shore-X desk or Concierge early in the voyage to sign up. There was an age limit, don't remember. 

We are literally doing that today and tomorrow on Virtuosa

[SwimmingDragon]

Huh. I just signed my family up for this a week ago. We don't sail till end of November. It wasn't an option when I booked the cruise or even in the following weeks. So I guess it's by chance grabbing a spot.