Fresh from Dry Dock, MSC Cruise Ship Starts 7-Day Caribbean Cruises with Just One Sea Day

In case you’re wanting into Caribbean cruises which can be full of ports, MSC Cruises simply introduced a 19-deck ship throughout the Atlantic Ocean that would match the invoice.

Shortly after the arrival of MSC Grandiosa, the primary Meraviglia Plus class ship to homeport in america, one other MSC Cruises ship in the identical class is now crusing the Caribbean.

However this ship isn’t crusing out of Florida.  The embarkation ports for this newly refurbished ship will make for some very distinctive cruises which can be unattainable with a 7-day cruise from PortMiami or Port Canaveral.  The truth is, these week-long cruises have just one sea day and go to 5 ports of name.

After a brief, necessary dry dock that solely lasted 23 days, MSC Virtuosa has efficiently accomplished a Transatlantic crusing and is now providing 7- and 14-night cruises out of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Barbados.

Beginning these cruises out of Southern Caribbean ports permit a 14-day crusing to go to locations like Grenada, Tortola, St Kitts, St. Lucia, Grand-Terre, St, Vincent and St Johns.  These two-week sailings will go to a few of these ports twice on the identical cruise.

Even a 7-day cruise out of Martinique will go to Guadeloupe, Tortola, St. Maarten, St Johns, and St Kitts.

A median 7-day cruise from Florida would possibly go to ports like Roatan, Grand Cayman, St. Maarten or St. Thomas.  However any additional into the Caribbean requires an extended period, which is what makes MSC Virtuosa’s positioning so distinctive, particularly for a ship of this measurement.

You’ll be able to anticipate 2 to three sea days on the typical Caribbean and Bahamas cruise out of Florida.  On these MSC Virtuosa sailings, there are just about zero sea days, so it’s a terrific possibility for these eager to expertise extra of the Caribbean itself.

However after all, it is going to require that flight to and from the Caribbean.  Many of the ship’s itineraries will begin in both Martinique or Guadeloupe.

A number of the ports visited on a 7-day cruise on MSC Virtuosa (relying on the date):

Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
Castries, St. Lucia
Bridgetown, Barbados
Kingstown, St. Vincent
St. George’s, Grenada
Highway City, Tortola (British Virgin Islands)
Philipsburg, St. Maarten
Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis
St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda

The Dry Dock

The ship, inbuilt 2021, was despatched to Rotterdam, Netherlands for her dry dock.  This was primarily a technical inspection and for classification functions in order that elements of the ship beneath the waterline could possibly be checked out and maintained.  

After 4 years of service, the ship continues to be pretty new, and no beauty refurbishments or enhancements would have been made. The hull was uncovered and cleaned and coated with an antifouling layer, and all the thrusters, propellers, and stabilizers have been inspected and repaired if needed.

On November 19, MSC Virtuosa left Rotterdam and commenced her repositioning voyage throughout the Atlantic.  The ship arrived in Martinique on December 6 after visiting a number of ports of name all through the Southern Caribbean.

About MSC Virtuosa

MSC Virtuosa is a 181,541 gross ton ship that has a most capability of 6,334 passengers (4,842 at double capability).  It’s a Meraviglia Plus-class ship, which is the second largest class with MSC Cruises, solely to be outdone by the 215,000+ World-class ships.

MSC Virtuosa has simply arrived again at homeport in Fort-de-France, Martinique right now and is scheduled to depart on a 7-day crusing that may go to Guadeloupe, Tortola, St. Maarten, St Johns, and St Kitts.  

That’s a port-packed 7-day crusing that’s solely doable when departing from southern ports like Martinique or San Juan, Puerto Rico.

7-day sailings on MSC Virtuosa begin round $779 per individual, relying on the time of yr.  The ship is scheduled to return to Europe in April 2026.

Simply final week, MSC Grandiosa arrived in Port Canaveral, and this ship gives quite a lot of cruises, from 3- to 7-, and even 14-night durations.