Emma, you are one of the best with a camera, very steady and smooth, you also do a great job with narration. I've never been on a cruise but really enjoy your videos, especially the MSC Meraviglia !!! Thank you for your work.
Another excellent video! We always watch your videos, along with Don's and Tony's. We sailed on the Meraviglia mid October of 2021 and loved the ship. It was absolutely stunning. The food was very good in all of the venues. We really liked that MSC added the heated stone loungers in the thermal area that they didn't have on the Seaside. On this sailing, there was only 786 guests onboard. There was more staff than there were guests. There were no lines for anything, anything at all. Being that the ship was so empty, there was zero energy on board, which was fine since we were looking to spend a week being lazy. We have never had a problem with MSC and we are booked on the Seashore for this September.
Thank you for a great ship tour and letting us know about the status match program, you're amazing!! We will be sailing on her 4/2020 and are really looking forward to the experience, happy sailing.
@@EmmaCruises I got greedy for Italian food and booked a solo NCL from Rome Dec 1-17. I attempted to use your TA but got quoted higher price vs NCL site. Sorry 🥺
It's so cool isn't it?! I bought it with the money I made from UA-cam so really it's thanks to people like you! I'm loving learning more about video making. So fun. Thanks for your comment! 😁💕
The Dome is spectacular would love to see that, we would spend plenty of time in the pub too! As you asked for feedback on Facebook, love your editing, and smooth filming and the titles sliding in and out, only thing is they came and went quick so would of just liked a little longer to read them. It looks a very cool ship! Love your graphics at the end too, great video!
After cruising on Celebrity and sampling some of their specialty restaurants I find MSC's specialty restaurants just ok. Celebrity's specialty restaurants is all you can eat. You can try multiple dishes for one price. When my wife and I dined at Meraviglia's Butchers Cut, I was disappointed that it was not all you can eat. Don't get me wrong, the steak was very good but it was not all you can eat and or could not try other dishes. Strange, I could not find CruisingIsntJustForOldPeople Facebook Group. But I did find your Emma Cruises group. Great review. Thank you for taking the time during your cruise to video and then post it.
Very informative video. I've never cruised MSC but have been curious and it's cool to know MSC does "status matching" from other lines. Definitely an incentive to give them a try. I'm a Celebrity person. Like Celebrity, MSC sports a modern interior design which I favor over something more traditional like Princess.
Hey! Thanks for your lovely comment. Yep the status match is easy to do. I'm trying my first celebrity cruise in May, just a weekend in silhouette but it'll be nice to try them.
Wow, It looks like you are walking around inside a shopping mall on land and not a cruise ship. I noticed there are not a lot of windows to look out of on that deck. When I'm on a cruise I want to feel I'm on a ship not in a mall on land. For sure different from NCL & Royal C. Great Video, I enjoy your channel very much.
Thank you for your tours and tips. I'm on Wonder in the fall and would like to try MSC soon. Is this the ship that is probably the closest to the Wonder of the Seas if I'm going just for the ship? 🙂
@@EmmaCruises Hey Emma. Only AIDAcara and AIDAaura. But will be on AIDAnova in november. She looks great. I actually started with ferries in northern europe like Silja Line, Smyrilline etc. Have a great day.
Maybe I need to wait for part two to have my question(s) answered? I'm confused about the meal (plan?) I realize that there are some restaurants that you will pay for everything but... Can you cruise with basic inclusive meal plan? Are all alcoholic drinks extra? Is the buffet breakfast included in your ticket price? Are most internal activities included or do you pay an upcharge to experience them? For the Meraviglia, what was your daily food budget (excluding alcohol)? Great video and thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Hi Emma. I have had a 7 day cruise on Norwegian Epic and was wondering can I transfer my loyalty points across to MSC Meraviglia and if so how do I go about doing it. Thanks in advance. Mick 👍🥂
If you love the Meraviglia, you should try the Seaside/Seaview ships. They are gorgeous, and the way they are build to not have the lifeboats disturbe the outside views makes them really uniqe in my opinion.
Looks nice but looks like a shopping mall. Why is that the new thing? I can just go to the mall, or a british pub? Where are the windows and the ocean?
Don't know the tonnage of this one, but it looks a bit big for my taste. I have found that on ships of 1000 ft. (300M) or more in length, it is just too tiring walking to everything. Maybe it has something to do with the layout of the ships, but it seems like much of the time what I want to do is at the other end of the ship. I am not lazy, but I am 70 years old, and walking this distance multiple times a day, plus some stairs, is a bit much. Regarding the stairs- I know all of the ships have elevators, but I have also experienced long waiting times to get one. Anyway, I am now looking at ships of 50,000 tons or less. A couple of the best cruises I have ever been aboard were on ships of under 30,000 GRT.
You just said it yourself Emma. You said "It doesn't seem like a cruise ship at all". And I absolutely agree with you. I can save tons of money by just going to any shopping mall in my neighborhood and get exactly the same experience. Cause that's exactly what it looks like. When I go on a cruise , then I want to feel that I'm on a ship and not in a shopping mall. And the interior design throughout the ship is so dull and boring. The colors are mostly grey, beige, more grey, grey and even more beige. And the design of the chairs are boxy and ugly. It's just way to sterile and minimalistic. I think that MSC should find some inspiration by looking at Cunard where all of their ships have a very sophisticated and pretty interior design with a warm welcoming feeling. Cunard are also using a variety of colors and their ships offers a way more luxurious interior design.
You mentioned how many bars there where, one cruise I took I saw 2 older people crawling on there hands and knees up the stairs to the excursion deck and over heard them saying, "your brochure said there was 10 bars on this ship and we only found 9 of them, which one did we miss?" :) You mentioned about having to eat at the rear of the ship over the engines and the vibrations, One cruise I took from Miami to South and central America and Mexico on the way back there was 10' sea's and an issue with an engine. It got so bad the plates where vibrating off the table. Even the waiters where falling down. I've only been on 5 cruises, but everyone turned out to be a disaster. Never once was it the cruise company's fault! 99% of the time I just picked the wrong person to go with. Eg: I paid for my mother and two sons to go on a Thanksgiving cruise, at the last min. my oldest son did not want to go so I changed it to my sort of new girl friend instead. Within an hour all 3 got sea sick (not sure why there was no rough seas) so asked them if they minded if I left them in the cabin while I checked out the ship and they said OK. I came back at 10:00 PM and they where all up and my girlfriend was in the shower. My mother told me she's really pi**ed off at you for not coming home last night. We had an inside cabin and some how she thought it was 10:00 am not PM. She stayed mad at me for 7 days and would not speak to me, even though she was wrong. This lady had 0 money, I'd paid for her cruise, bought all her all new clothes, paid for someone to take care of her two children while we where gone. Guess I'm just a magnet for mental midgets. So sorry for the long vent!
Hey Sheryl, what do you mean pay for everything? The only thing I paid extra for on this cruise was drinks. MSC are also one of the cheapest cruise lines in my experience. Certainly couldn't cruise on many others for the price I paid for this one. Thanks for your comment!
Dear Emma, the thing with pizza&pasta is that I wouldn't necessarily call that Mediterranean food. More like Italian "let's feed a gazillion ignorant tourists" food. It's what you get almost exclusively if you go to any major Italian city's most touristy area. If you want real Mediterranean, or even real, genuine, great Italian food (such as squid prepared in it's own ink for example), you need to "boldly go where no man has gone before", to a small hidden village or some remote back streets where the locals go. The pizza&pasta combo is great, but even with the huge variety within the "genre", it gets absolutely boring in a very short time. I remember after my trip to Rome I got so fed up with that, when I came home I gave a wide berth to every place that had pizza or pasta on their menu for a long time, I didn't even want to see those.
Part 2 is now live! bit.ly/2Z9oevx Make sure you check out the video, we tour the top decks of the MSC Meraviglia. Including the buffet, gym, sky lounge, sportsplex and more.
Come on! Teppanyaki is not sushi although they may also serve sushi. it is often called hibachi in America and various dishes of steak, shrimp and chicken as well as vegetables are cooked at your table usually with the cook offering quite a show as he cooks for you. You should have tried it but at the least due research before your presentation.
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Emma, you are one of the best with a camera, very steady and smooth, you also do a great job with narration. I've never been on a cruise but really enjoy your videos, especially the MSC Meraviglia !!! Thank you for your work.
Thank you so much! You're too kind. 😁♥️
This ship looks so lovely and glam!! I love the stairs lol .Thanks for this great tour Emma , as always .
Thanks Julie, I think glam is the exact word! You've got it spot on 😁👍🏼💕
Another excellent video! We always watch your videos, along with Don's and Tony's. We sailed on the Meraviglia mid October of 2021 and loved the ship. It was absolutely stunning. The food was very good in all of the venues. We really liked that MSC added the heated stone loungers in the thermal area that they didn't have on the Seaside. On this sailing, there was only 786 guests onboard. There was more staff than there were guests. There were no lines for anything, anything at all. Being that the ship was so empty, there was zero energy on board, which was fine since we were looking to spend a week being lazy. We have never had a problem with MSC and we are booked on the Seashore for this September.
This Is my favorite ship actually (12 time cruiser at the time posted)
Thanks again! I'll be on this ship in April for 21 days!
I loved you saying that the ship might feel 'vibratie' if in the dining room at sail away...great description!
It's so sparkly I would need sunglasses inside lol. The ceiling really reminds me of Fremont Street in Vegas
Haha 🤣❤️
Nice tour Emma!! MSC Meraviglia looks like a beautiful Grand Lady
She's a very elegant glamorous lady I think! 😁💕
So many of these ultra big ships with the promenades remind me So Much of the really deluxe Megaresorts in Las Vegas!
Looking forward to sailing her in 2 weeks. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for the fantastic tour. Keep it up!
Great job Emma, will be on the Ship in a few weeks.....Thanks.
Thanks Will! Have an amazing time 🥳👌❤️
What a beautiful ship! I diffently need to cruise on MSC...
Thank you for a great ship tour and letting us know about the status match program, you're amazing!! We will be sailing on her 4/2020 and are really looking forward to the experience, happy sailing.
Looks really cool! Love the chocolate sculptures.
Theyre so so fancy!! Some of them are new from when I was onboard last year too. :)
Just found an 10 day $398 deal for this ship. Almost criminal not to go since I'm near the departure port in NYC 🤔
Bargain!!! Have a great time! 🥳🥳
@@EmmaCruises I got greedy for Italian food and booked a solo NCL from Rome Dec 1-17. I attempted to use your TA but got quoted higher price vs NCL site. Sorry 🥺
@@EmmaCruises Finally booked May 12th 2024. Ready for some chocolate!
Really beautiful appreciate all your videos
I hope to meet you Emma in one of my cruises someday. Your videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Very good tour
As time moves on and your videos become more professional, it’s a pleasure to watch. The new video camera helps a lot.
It's so cool isn't it?! I bought it with the money I made from UA-cam so really it's thanks to people like you! I'm loving learning more about video making. So fun. Thanks for your comment! 😁💕
Beautiful!
Another good video and certainly shows the ship in a good way she looks a fantastic ship
Thank you guys! Thanks for all your shares and things on twitter too 😁💕
What a great MSC Meraviglia tour~Thanks for sharing
Great video and ship looks awesome. RCCL Freedom of the seas had an English style pub that we spent a lot of time at is well.
Love the pub! Thanks for your comment 😁♥️
I loved Meriviglia!
Another great video Emma. The tour was excellent. 👍👍.
Thanks so much Mark! I tried extra hard with this one haha. 😎🎉
I’ve enjoyed all your posts, but I think this one is your best yet! 👍👍
Thank you! I upgraded my camera to a fancy go pro 7 and my editing software too 😁👍🏼
Beautiful ship thanks for all your work 😊
Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼
You must have been up early to get the ship so empty! Beautiful ship 💕 and a great tour thanks Emma
Hey Ellie! Nope this was around 3pm I think... We were docked so most people were on land. Thanks for your lovely comment 😁💕
Thank you so much for a beautiful and amazing ship tour. Sincerely Adventures of David and Aaron
Thank you so much for a beautiful and amazing comment!!
The Dome is spectacular would love to see that, we would spend plenty of time in the pub too! As you asked for feedback on Facebook, love your editing, and smooth filming and the titles sliding in and out, only thing is they came and went quick so would of just liked a little longer to read them. It looks a very cool ship! Love your graphics at the end too, great video!
Showing your age there Carole... Haha just kidding! 😂😂💕 Feedback taken onboard! Thank you.
I was working there in deck 7 , AUREA SPA..very nice and Big ship..
Amazing! Thanks for your comment 😊👍🏼 Don't forget to subscribe.
Booked on this ship in October with 2 of my boys!
After cruising on Celebrity and sampling some of their specialty restaurants I find MSC's specialty restaurants just ok. Celebrity's specialty restaurants is all you can eat. You can try multiple dishes for one price. When my wife and I dined at Meraviglia's Butchers Cut, I was disappointed that it was not all you can eat. Don't get me wrong, the steak was very good but it was not all you can eat and or could not try other dishes.
Strange, I could not find CruisingIsntJustForOldPeople Facebook Group. But I did find your Emma Cruises group.
Great review. Thank you for taking the time during your cruise to video and then post it.
Yess we changed the name, to make it more searchable and to link with this page/my website etc. Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼
Really never new they'll match your status with ncl! Thanks for that!
Nice ship BIG CASINO!! I am in.
Haha! HUGE casino! :D
We're excited to be cruising on this ship in December 2021 just after being on Allure of the Seas in October. First time on an MSC ship.
Sounds good! 😁🥳
This is as good as it gets, what a MASTERPIECE !!!! Simply Stunning
You are too kind! Thank you 😁♥️
I went there for the first cruise in the meditteran it's fantistic espiaccialy the pool area for the kids with the Himalayan Bridge!!!
Yess!! I tried it too. I'll be uploading the video soon 😁🥂 Did you try it?
Very informative video. I've never cruised MSC but have been curious and it's cool to know MSC does "status matching" from other lines. Definitely an incentive to give them a try. I'm a Celebrity person. Like Celebrity, MSC sports a modern interior design which I favor over something more traditional like Princess.
Hey! Thanks for your lovely comment. Yep the status match is easy to do. I'm trying my first celebrity cruise in May, just a weekend in silhouette but it'll be nice to try them.
Hi, do you have a video about the Msc Bellissima? I'll go there in 1 month!
That's exciting!! Nope I don't but Meraviglia is almost exactly identical. Only the colours are different. 😁♥️
@@EmmaCruises ok thanks🌍💥
Thanks Emma 🌟 awesome Great vlogs thanks for sharing!!🚢😎👍🏻⚓️
Thank you Ann! 😁💕🎉👍🏼
Wow, It looks like you are walking around inside a shopping mall on land and not a cruise ship. I noticed there are not a lot of windows to look out of on that deck. When I'm on a cruise I want to feel I'm on a ship not in a mall on land. For sure different from NCL & Royal C. Great Video, I enjoy your channel very much.
Thanks 😀
The cleaning staff must have a lot of work there! 😀
Thank you for your tours and tips. I'm on Wonder in the fall and would like to try MSC soon. Is this the ship that is probably the closest to the Wonder of the Seas if I'm going just for the ship? 🙂
I went on the noriegon (I don’t know how to spell it) getaway 2 years ago, how can I get the free speciality meal?
You have to have the highest loyalty status with NCL. Lots and lots of cruises!
Hi I like this ship I’m disabled are there any lifts on this ship cheers
Yesss lots and lots of lifts, probably 15 or so passenger lifts. 😀❤️
Is my favourite cruise ship as well (so far)
Glad to hear it! Which other ships have you been on? 😁👍🏼
@@EmmaCruises Hey Emma. Only AIDAcara and AIDAaura. But will be on AIDAnova in november. She looks great. I actually started with ferries in northern europe like Silja Line, Smyrilline etc. Have a great day.
OOOOooo! That's an interesting bunch of ships. Have a great day to you too! 😁👍🏼
Is there gourmet coffee anywhere? Can I get coffee with the drinks package? Cruising in December (Christmas).
Voy a ir este año a ese crucero ya esta pagado
Do they have lifts
Is there ice cream 🍦 all day?
Maybe I need to wait for part two to have my question(s) answered?
I'm confused about the meal (plan?)
I realize that there are some restaurants that you will pay for everything but...
Can you cruise with basic inclusive meal plan?
Are all alcoholic drinks extra?
Is the buffet breakfast included in your ticket price?
Are most internal activities included or do you pay an upcharge to experience them?
For the Meraviglia, what was your daily food budget (excluding alcohol)?
Great video and thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Hellooooo! Here’s your answers to what’s included in an MSC cruise >> emmacruises.com/do-msc-cruises-include-meals/ ☺️❤️
I was thinking that it looks like an upscale mall, then you called the MSC Galleria.
Fascinated by MSC. It looks very elegant and less like a "carnival" park. ;)
Haha very elegant indeed! Think that's the right word. Have you cruised on some carnival parks?! Haha.
Hi Emma. I have had a 7 day cruise on Norwegian Epic and was wondering can I transfer my loyalty points across to MSC Meraviglia and if so how do I go about doing it. Thanks in advance. Mick 👍🥂
Teppanyaki is fabulous…no sushi required…
If you love the Meraviglia, you should try the Seaside/Seaview ships. They are gorgeous, and the way they are build to not have the lifeboats disturbe the outside views makes them really uniqe in my opinion.
Ooo yes I’d love to 😀💪🏼
We sailed on the Seaside in 2019 and loved the ship. The amount of outdoor space is amazing. We are sailing the Seashore this September.
I like to buy some clothing with the company/ship name on it. My beloved Dawn Princess cardigan, bought 6 years ago has finally outlived it usefulness
OO yes that's a good point 😁👌
I’d love to go on this ship, it looks amazing! Maybe one day! ☺️
You must! I love Meraviglia 😎❤️ Thanks for commenting. 🥳👍🏼
199.00 person for a four night cruise out of Miami
Emma. this is the ship I maybe on next april 2022. woot. 5800 for a 19 day trans-atlantic.
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How do you get the match from other cruise lines?
Hey Heath! I have a video explaining that here: ua-cam.com/video/UPDF0JOdjP0/v-deo.html
Modern cruise ships look like a shopping mall on the sea to me
Bonjour nous venons de reserver le MERAVIGLIA pour février , il semble avoir de bons commentaires????
Salut! He ne parle pas francais Pardon.
Looks nice but looks like a shopping mall. Why is that the new thing? I can just go to the mall, or a british pub? Where are the windows and the ocean?
Don't know the tonnage of this one, but it looks a bit big for my taste. I have found that on ships of 1000 ft. (300M) or more in length, it is just too tiring walking to everything. Maybe it has something to do with the layout of the ships, but it seems like much of the time what I want to do is at the other end of the ship. I am not lazy, but I am 70 years old, and walking this distance multiple times a day, plus some stairs, is a bit much. Regarding the stairs- I know all of the ships have elevators, but I have also experienced long waiting times to get one. Anyway, I am now looking at ships of 50,000 tons or less. A couple of the best cruises I have ever been aboard were on ships of under 30,000 GRT.
Sounds good! 😁🥳 Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼
What App you said
What?
@@EmmaCruises you said to download one app ? What that iam asking
"It doesn't seem like a cruise ship at all" Why is this a good thing?
I just disembarked on this cruise and it was the worst experience.
You just said it yourself Emma. You said "It doesn't seem like a cruise ship at all". And I absolutely agree with you. I can save tons of money by just going to any shopping mall in my neighborhood and get exactly the same experience. Cause that's exactly what it looks like. When I go on a cruise , then I want to feel that I'm on a ship and not in a shopping mall.
And the interior design throughout the ship is so dull and boring. The colors are mostly grey, beige, more grey, grey and even more beige. And the design of the chairs are boxy and ugly.
It's just way to sterile and minimalistic. I think that MSC should find some inspiration by looking at Cunard where all of their ships have a very sophisticated and pretty interior design with a warm welcoming feeling. Cunard are also using a variety of colors and their ships offers a way more luxurious interior design.
Good job we’re all different isn’t it?
Love the coloring and decor from viewing the videos. The color scheme is "classy" not garish for my taste.
What was your favorite venue?
100000000000000% the pub 😂💕
You mentioned how many bars there where, one cruise I took I saw 2 older people crawling on there hands and knees up the stairs to the excursion deck and over heard them saying, "your brochure said there was 10 bars on this ship and we only found 9 of them, which one did we miss?" :) You mentioned about having to eat at the rear of the ship over the engines and the vibrations, One cruise I took from Miami to South and central America and Mexico on the way back there was 10' sea's and an issue with an engine. It got so bad the plates where vibrating off the table. Even the waiters where falling down. I've only been on 5 cruises, but everyone turned out to be a disaster. Never once was it the cruise company's fault! 99% of the time I just picked the wrong person to go with. Eg: I paid for my mother and two sons to go on a Thanksgiving cruise, at the last min. my oldest son did not want to go so I changed it to my sort of new girl friend instead. Within an hour all 3 got sea sick (not sure why there was no rough seas) so asked them if they minded if I left them in the cabin while I checked out the ship and they said OK. I came back at 10:00 PM and they where all up and my girlfriend was in the shower. My mother told me she's really pi**ed off at you for not coming home last night. We had an inside cabin and some how she thought it was 10:00 am not PM. She stayed mad at me for 7 days and would not speak to me, even though she was wrong. This lady had 0 money, I'd paid for her cruise, bought all her all new clothes, paid for someone to take care of her two children while we where gone. Guess I'm just a magnet for mental midgets. So sorry for the long vent!
Ice cream for free? You mean ' included in your cruise. As you paid for it in your cruise😉
I don't get the ice cream and I would have paid the same amount as she did so yes technically free.
Navio muito grande com poucas áreas comuns, não recomendo.
Can I bring my own pack of cigarettes on board? Or do I have to buy them in-house. 🤔
Patata di Bologna
Beautiful but too expensive, you have to pay for everything.$$$
Hey Sheryl, what do you mean pay for everything? The only thing I paid extra for on this cruise was drinks. MSC are also one of the cheapest cruise lines in my experience. Certainly couldn't cruise on many others for the price I paid for this one.
Thanks for your comment!
Dear Emma, the thing with pizza&pasta is that I wouldn't necessarily call that Mediterranean food. More like Italian "let's feed a gazillion ignorant tourists" food. It's what you get almost exclusively if you go to any major Italian city's most touristy area. If you want real Mediterranean, or even real, genuine, great Italian food (such as squid prepared in it's own ink for example), you need to "boldly go where no man has gone before", to a small hidden village or some remote back streets where the locals go. The pizza&pasta combo is great, but even with the huge variety within the "genre", it gets absolutely boring in a very short time. I remember after my trip to Rome I got so fed up with that, when I came home I gave a wide berth to every place that had pizza or pasta on their menu for a long time, I didn't even want to see those.
Part 2 is now live! bit.ly/2Z9oevx
Make sure you check out the video, we tour the top decks of the MSC Meraviglia. Including the buffet, gym, sky lounge, sportsplex and more.
Yuk, as you say it doesnt feel like a cruise ship, its a shopping centre, yuk,yuk,yuk
Come on! Teppanyaki is not sushi although they may also serve sushi. it is often called hibachi in America and various dishes of steak, shrimp and chicken as well as vegetables are cooked at your table usually with the cook offering quite a show as he cooks for you. You should have tried it but at the least due research before your presentation.