MSC Virtuosa - 14nts *Solo* Cruise Full Board - Northern Europe - 1st July - £680 @ Seascanner

I was on this in oct but it was during the Scot’s and Irish school break and kids were just everywhere. Even the champagne bar. The buffet was like a feeding frenzy.
Main dining was just loud
Only one bar was kid free but was tricky to get a seat.
The entertainment was below even Butlins standard
Still it was a nice ship and a good price
Was on virgin voyages and that’s just absolutely amazing and zero kids and a whole different level to msc

Found the cruise, but won't share any specific details - the itinerary is decent though, as only 2 at sea days, 6 ports in 8 days is decent. Any less and I'd probably say it's a bit meh for the fjords.

Overall Princess cruises are one of the best service wise, and I'd personally highly recommend them.

The sky princess is one of the more modern ships, which is a good thing in terms of features. Sometimes on other cruise companies ships like the NCL Dawn, you can feel the oldness at times.

Never stayed in that specific room before, but having a look online it seems to be an "obstructed" view balcony cabin, so if the upper balcony is in use your one would be a bit blocked.

You'd probably not spend too much time in the cabin tbh, mostly for sleeping, so if you want a balcony cabin, an "obstructed" one at a lower price would make sense.

I usually aim for £100pp/pn after adding all the extras on. £120 isn't too bad (quite good) but it may drop later on.

All in all, cruises in general are never "bad" imo, the experience is great and 95% the service is amazing. And princess cruises are considered much better than the likes of MSC and P&O. So you should have a lovely time. Might be also worth reading this - cruisecritic.co.uk/rev…180 - some useful info there too

It depends on the cruise line and the boat. Some will offer free water and soft drinks at meal times
However, in most cases, you will have to pay.
Most will also offer a non alcoholic drinks package too - especially for kids

Cheers! I was going to write Spain, but MSC also described it as Northern Europe .

This looked pretty good to me:

seascanner.co.uk/tra…dom

£359/pp for 12 nights, Norway on NCL.

It’s only £1500 for 2A, 2C with free at sea, so sorely tempted to take the kids out school lol. (Aside from the price a bit scared to ruin a first cruise exprerience by doing it during school hols). (edited)

Decent deal overall (especially in the school hols, hard to get full board holiday packages at that cost this year) , although you're looking at £3000 now for baclony as inside has gone OOS. I did see this one a couple of weeks ago at £1600 for a family of 4, so does seem to have gone up. There tends to be a "sweet spot" for cruises and that one seems to have passed for this, although still decent at just over £50pp/pn.

Doubt drinks package would drop, £29pp/pn seems to be MSC standard these days, and when they drop the drinks package the cruise fare tends to go up. Probably likely to sell out, as they've already done for the inside and outside ones.

Yes... I found the same... New price is £736... Is this right ???... Has it gone up ???

don't believe so

With MSC book everything you want before you go its a lot cheaper.

Main consideration is do you add the drinks package with the booking.
Tips are included.
then review the following
the speciality dinner package
spa pass
fun pass
Carousel show(s) if not booked with the dinner package(cheaper)

You can then cruise with Zero on board spending if you want.

15% "service charge" is added to all drinks orders on board, if you dont have a drinks package.