Just booked another cruise . . . .

cruiseduo · September 14, 2006

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Just booked the MSC Lirica (photo is from April 2005 Panama Canal cruise), 12-day Southern Caribbean, $49.37 per person/per day . . . . total cost $1184 for two of us including fees, taxes, etc.! Leaving December 7th! What a deal! Going to San Juan, St. Maarten, Grenada, Barbados, Antigua, Tortola, and Cayo Leavantado (MSC private island).

Going on RCL Mariner of the Seas on October 29th. Now I'm a Double-Double-Digit-Midget

GottaCruz · September 15, 2006

That sounds like an amazing deal, Pat and Howard. Congratulations on your booking. Love the photo. Remember to post your cruise dates to our CruiseCrazies calendar and the Meeting Hall. One day, I hope to be able to take advantages of deals like that.

Oh, and remember the Roll Call Forum.

lilrosie · September 15, 2006

Congratualtions....very nice photo of you both..its nice to be able to put a face to the people I chat with..thanks for sharing.. :smiley:

rogue · September 15, 2006

Congratualtions, cruiseduo. Enjoy the anticipation. :grin:

sailingrose · September 15, 2006

Congrats on the new booking and the great price.

Shari2 · September 15, 2006

Sounds like you got a great deal there, Howard and Pat! Congratulations on the booking!!!

elfed · September 15, 2006

What an incredible deal! I thought I was up on good deals until I read that For MSC. Good for you.

Regards,

James

JoeyandDavid · September 15, 2006

Howard ... Pat....Congratulations on your booking.... I have heard a lot negatives about MSC.. Would you please since you sailed before on them.. Share if you will some of your Positives?!

Mebert · September 16, 2006

cruiseduo,

Congratulations on your booking and what a great photo.

cruiseduo · September 16, 2006

Joey,

We cruised the Lirica in April 2005 on her Panama Canal cruise. It was a wonderful experience. The service was great . . . . cruise people were friendly and accomodating to our needs.

Some people were critical of the shipboard announcements because they were repeated in five languages . . . .english, spanish, french, italian, and german. We didn't find this objectionable . . . . just added to the european ambiance.

Speaking of european ambiance, some ladies decided to sunbath on the pool topless. While this sounds titilating (pun intended) many of the people who opted for this should have kept their clothes on.

I don't want this to be too long, but one more comment. The food was uniquely european. Ninety percent of the time it was excellent. And you could always order a steak or seafood at dinner. A traveling companion order a seafood salad and was suprised to see little octopus tentacles with suckers etc. He didn't eat that. Our biggest food dissapointment was the cannoli. Being born and raised ten miles from New York City, Pat and I know what cannoli should taste like and looked forward to having it on this Italian cruise ship. It was the worst we've ever had.

To summarize, we would go on the Lirica again and again. It's a class ship with class service. Hope this helps.

Howard

P.S. One other comment . . . . when we booked the Panama Canal cruise we booked the cheapest inside they had (Cat#1). We were to sail in January '05. In Oct '04, MSC called our TA and told they had overbooked and would we change our date to April 11th. For the inconvenience they upgraded us to a Category 9 and gave us $1,000 back. This ended up as being the best cruise deal we ever had. It will probably never happen again.