MSC Virtuosa

MSC Cruises extends Virtuosa’s 2022 ex-UK season by a month to November

Following a great start to the year, MSC Cruises is extending MSC Virtuosa’s 2022 ex-UK season by a month, now offering 23 sailings between April and November. The ship, which arrives in the UK on 29 April, will operate various itineraries from two-night mini cruises, taking in the popular St Peter Port, to 12 nights

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MSC Virtuosa arrives in Southampton

MSC Virtuosa to return to Southampton in 2022 for summer season

The newly christened MSC Virtuosa will return to Southampton for its 2022 summer season. Today’s news comes as MSC Cruises also revealed its entire fleet of 19 ships will be spending the summer at sea. Offering two-night mini cruises taking in the popular St Peter Port to 12 nights exploring the Baltics or 14 nights

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MSC Virtuosa christening

A Virtuosa performance … Sophia Loren christens her second MSC ship in just EIGHT days

No sooner had the bubbles on the christening of MSC Seashore in The Bahamas gone flat than screen icon Sophia was back in action again, naming her second ship in just EIGHT days. This time it was MSC Virtuosa getting the star treatment in a glittering ceremony at Port Rashid in Dubai in recognition of

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Sophia Loren christens MSC Seashore

Sophia Loren no stranger to MSC christenings as she makes it number 16 with MSC Seashore

Sophia Loren officially named MSC’s newest flagship MSC Seashore yesterday evening (18 November) at a double ceremony which also formally inaugurated the Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve in The Bahamas. It was the first naming ceremony for a cruise ship to be held at a private island and for the Hollywood screen goddess it is

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Chelsea Stamford Bridge

MSC Cruises signs new three-year deal to cheer on Chelsea as its global cruise partner

MSC Cruises today announced it will be continuing as the official global cruise partner of Premier League football giants Chelsea for another three years. Over the first three years of the partnership MSC Cruises has seen brand awareness among the 2.6 million Chelsea fans in the UK and Ireland soar from 14 per cent to

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MSC Magnifica and MSC Poesia

MSC Cruises to stage world cruise double act in 2023 after scrapping of 2022 global voyage

Following the cancellation of its 2022 world cruise, MSC Cruises has doubled up in 2023 and will be sending both MSC Poesia and MSC Magnifica around the globe. They will set sail together with embarkation in Civitavecchia on 4 January and then Genoa, Marseille and Barcelona over the next three days before heading off in

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MSC Seaview

MSC Seaview to cruise out of St Maarten and Barbados as part of MSC’s reconfirmed winter 2021/22 programme

MSC Cruises has reconfirmed its winter 2021/22 sailing programme in the South Caribbean where MSC Seaview will be based during the season for 7- and 14-night cruises from St Maarten and Barbados from 5 December. After the authorities in Martinique and Guadeloupe decided to continue to bar cruise ships, MSC Cruises evaluated alternative options and

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MSC Divina

MSC welcomes ‘tremendous boost’ as international travellers get all-clear to cruise from the US from 8 November

MSC Cruises has welcomed the US government’s announcement that from 8 November international travellers from many parts of the world can enter the country provided they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The world’s third largest cruise brand described the news as “a tremendous boost” for European-based and other international tourists wanting to holiday for winter

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EXPLORA I

Major milestone for Explora Journeys as construction begins on second ship Explora II

Construction work has begun on Explora II, the second vessel of Explora Journeys, MSC Group’s newly-launched luxury brand. The steel cutting at a special ceremony at Fincantieri’s Castellammare di Stabia yard in Italy last week followed on just three months from the start of work on its first ship, Explora I, scheduled to arrive in

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Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve

Sophia Loren to christen her 16th MSC Cruises ship in first ever private island ceremony

MSC Cruises’ new flagship, MSC Seashore, will become the first ship ever to be christened at a private island when she is officially named at Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve in The Bahamas on 18 November. She will kick off her inaugural seven-night cruise and US season two days later. Hollywood icon Sophia Loren will

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