About Msc Cruise Ships

MSC cruise booking and cancellation policy changes.

About msc cruise ships. MSC Magnifica will be the ship of choice when MSC Cruises introduces its first ever world cruise in 2019. We employ 12000 people worldwide and the company is represented in 45 countries. MSC Cruises has no small ships.

As noted above the MSC Cruises fleet includes three of the worlds 11 biggest cruise vessels MSC Grandiosa MSC Meraviglia and MSC Bellissima. They take the kids at good times for the adults to also enjoy the cruise along with the kids. Geneva Switzerland 28 January 2021 2021 will see two new MSC Cruises ships come into service MSC Virtuosa and MSC Seashore the latest ships to be delivered as part of the Companys long-term new builds programme.

Two week ago in articles titled COVID-19 Aboard MSC Virtuosa and Passenger Dies After Super-Spreader COVID-19 Cruise on MSC Virtuosa we reported that there were arround 75 to 100 guests on the MSC cruise ship who contracted COVID-19 during a series of cruises from the UK. Embarking from four ports in France Spain and Italy the global tour will cover 32260 nautical miles and take almost a third of the year to complete taking in 119 calendar days from embarkation to completion. In fact the cruise line refuses to discuss the COVID-19 outbreak with the families of those infected many of who have been admitted to.

MSC Cruises ships range in size from 248 metres long to 331 metres long. It now requires final payments to be made 30 days earlier - from 60-days to 90-days prior departure. Each MSC cruise ship is designed and built with the best technology available and the entire MSC fleet features state-of-the-art technologies and equipment to protect marine and air environment.

The newest is the 6000 passenger MSC Virtuosa while the oldest is the twenty-year-old MSC Armonia which accommodates 2500 guests. The four Fantasia Class ships MSC Preziosa 2013 MSC Divina 2012 MSC Splendida 2009 and MSC Fantasia 2008 are large-size and modern ships. A modern fleet of eleven ships carries 12 million passengers.

In July 2017 MSC changed the companys cruise booking policy. MSC Cruises has 17 cruise ships in the fleet. Compared to other mainstream cruise lines MSC Cruises ships are quite average in size with some mega ships some large ships and a few medium-sized ships.