MSC Cruiseline Venice, Italy to Istanbul, Turkey June, 2015

MSC Cruiseline - Venice, Italy to Istanbul, Turkey, June 2015

I don't know how many of you like to do cruises but I was sitting in my apartment, mind you, Paris does not have air conditioning in their dwellings, and thinking, it's getting pretty hot. I gotta get out of here! So, I took a cruise.

I have not done a lot of cruising but I found this European cruise line MSC and looked at its destinations and pricing and said to myself, why not?? I got a stateroom with a king size bed and my own balcony for 9 days for

around $2100 USD. Pretty cheap! And as you

can see, pretty nice.

So, I signed up for some massages,

Incredible!

I walked the ship my first evening. The pool and deck areas were beautiful and fully equipped to entertain their guests.

They also had games and activities on deck

which many guests participated in. 

Since this was a European cruiseline, there were only 22 americans onboard. Lots of Russians, I think I heard over 200, and many other assorted vacationers were on board.

Europeans LOVE the water so all day long there was disco music playing and every beach chair was full!

 They had ice cream and a wonderful smoothie bar too!

I was in the upgraded dining room where we had more meal choices and the food was delicious!

 

 

I loved how, when we left port, seagulls would fly

along side the boat until we got out to sea!  

  

 

There were many shops onboard, and the shopkeepers spoke English which I don't think a lot of the guests did. I learned that they were trained differently to relate to European customers than American customers.

So I had a lot of interesting people from all around the world to speak with. I met shop keepers from Poland, Serbia, Cuba and Bali. The employees make a contract to do the cruises for 9 months, then 3 months off. We had some very interesting conversations.

 So, I would have to tell you, I loved cruising with

MSC cruiselines. Their service was excellent

and I really enjoyed my time with them!