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Reviewed By: brown, broughton on 27th Jun 2009
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| Cruise Line: MSC Cruises |
Times cruised before: 0 |
| Cruise Ship: MSC Lirica |
Sailed:
June,
2009 |
| Destination: Northern Europe |
Age: 56-65 |
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north cape cruise on June 2009. Itinery great, cabin spacious and ship very good, cleaned constantly. Only one restaurant serving a la carte which was terrible, meals barely warm, limited choice, meal times rigidly fixed. If you missed it , you went hungry. Have had better food in motorway service stations. "Working staff "very pleasant and accommodating. Reception staff beligerant. Food in buffet o.k , but cold. Tea and coffee undrinkable because of chlorine taste. No tea or coffee making facilities in cabin, in fact , no running drinking water in cabin. Excursions overpriced and of incredibly poor quality. On board drinks very expensive
Not much to do on board (unless you want to relax), one morning activity was "how to make boxes", the afternoon activity was "how to decorate the boxes you made this morning"
The entertainment in the bars was very poor, being plinky plonky piano music or second rate vocal groups. If I wasn't of sound mind, may have jumped off the back of the ship to get away from it.
Scenery during cruise was wonderful, the weather was great. Cruise spoiled by poor food and rip off prices on board. Other passengers who cruise regularly say they have regreted going on this cruise line because of the facilities on board.
Be warned.
Geoff Brown.
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| Quality of Food |  |
| buffet breakfast, but often unable to find a seat. A La Carte dinner, but choice limited and often repeated, barely warm and sometimes inedible. Sweets a disgrace. Pizza bar, although the pizza base was good, the topping appeared to have been but on with an emulsion roller. (not much of it.) | | Entertainment | |
| Went to one theatre show which was o.k. The rest of the entertainment in the bars was very poor. You were not entertained. | | Shore Excursions | |
| None of the excursions I went on was value for money. They were all very expensive, badly organized and left you hanging around for extended periods of time. | | Staff |  |
| Cabin staff were excellent, as were all the serving staff. | | Children's Facilities | n/a |
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| Nothing for me. | | Cabins | |
| Cabin was excellent | | Overall Rating | |
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