Autumn Cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean! (2)
Cruise the Eastern Mediterranean! MSC Preziosa! (2)
Venice - MSC Preziosa - Bari - Katakolon - Izmir - Istanbul - Dubrovnik - post-cruise Venice - Prague - Marianske Lazne - Karlovy Vary.
Part 1 here: http://blogs. turpravda. en/hessen/105929.html
Bars and restaurants.
Restaurant The Golden Lobster.
A beautiful restaurant in golden tones, very festive, and in general we had a holiday every day, namely, every evening the waiters congratulated the birthday people and sang a song. Sometimes even more than once a night. You look, here and there they go with a cake and sing.
This restaurant is only open in the evening for two dinner shifts. Located on decks 5 and 6. Just there we had dinners, 1 shift, a table for two. We never missed dinner at the restaurant, we liked the restaurant itself and the atmosphere around.
We did not purchase any drink packages on this cruise. Allegrissimo drinks package 23.00/person / the day we had on the last cruise was no longer interesting.
We tried wine there, and the choice is not very large, cocktails too, I wanted something different, ice cream ...if you really wanted, you could order for dinner, which I did almost every day. I've tried everything on offer and it's delicious and delicious. As a result, for all wines, cocktails, beer, coffee ...we spent 186.00 euros.
One of the evenings was an Italian party with a birthday cake, and the whole restaurant is decorated in white, red and green, the colors of the Italian flag. Music played loudly, everyone waved napkins and danced in the hall along with the waiters.
The waiter was very friendly to us. Not to say that he ran smartly, it is clear that he is experienced, because he did not make a single unnecessary movement. But our dinner did not last more than an hour and a half, compared, for example, with the waiter at the next table. I tried to remember some of the most necessary Russian and German words.
On the last day, we left him a tip.
There is another evening restaurant L Arabesque.
Also a beautiful restaurant in lilac-burgundy tones, well, somehow there is not a single photo. In this restaurant, apart from having dinner, you can also have breakfast and lunch.
Free tea/coffee/juice/water for breakfast. For lunch and dinner for money. We've had breakfast there several times and loved it. Despite the fact that the waiters serve, you can order an express menu, and everything will be quick, about 30 minutes. The choice is almost the same as in the buffet on deck 14, but here you can also order salmon for breakfast, well, there is no such running around, noise, no need to look for a free table. In a word, it was comfortable.
Buffet restaurant on deck 14 Inca&Maya.
Open around the clock, all 24 hours. Tea/coffee/water/cream/ice cubes are also available around the clock...
Juice is only for breakfast. This time I liked cold cuts, their choice is not great, 3-4, but every day is different.
Jamon of three different types was very tasty, raw smoked sausage was also delicious ...There are many and different fruits, after Istanbul there was already my favorite persimmon.
The company is not a luxury class, so there is no need to wait for black caviar, escargot and lobsters, and everything else is at a decent level.
Fhoenician Plaza
There are different statues, all without heads for some reason. And yet, everything looks very nice. There are also all sorts of sales of bags, watches, jewelry, cosmetics ...
By the way, there is a Bar Pasticceria Gelateria at Fhoenician Plaza, where live music plays in the evenings, a very pleasant place.
On Splendid, we did not reach it, or rather, we passed by it all the time, but we never sat in it. This time we decided to still taste the cakes that attracted us so much in the windows.
The prices there are moderate, caffelatte 2.20 euros, macarons each 1.00 euros. We sampled all of them, all 5 types that were there, well, nothing, delicious, for some reason I thought that they would be tastier. They paid, as usual, with a ship's card.
As in Splendid, there are enough shops of all kinds here, and the prices are not high, it’s checked.
One of these stores is the Logo Shop, which sells various products with the MSC logo. Chocolates, mice for the mat, glasses, T-shirts / T-shirts, magnets, pens / key chains, backpacks ...etc. There are discounts for club members.
There is a boutique with bags, with clothes. Perfumes are my favourite. There was a sale and not bad, for example, you can choose any 3 perfumes for 95.00 euros. Or any 2 from another department for 115.00 euros. Of course, I stocked up here, because I know what and how much it costs with us. Upon arrival, I checked the prices in the store, and before that I checked with the prices at the Venice airport. In total, the winnings are 67.00 euros. Well, this, of course, in case you need it.
There are also shops with sweets, with cigarettes and spirits...with decorations...
We were able to get around all the shops only when we had a day at sea.
There are a lot of different reflective surfaces in the casino, everything is illuminated, flashing, sparkling, glittering, shimmering ...By the way, this is not only the case in the casino, but in general throughout the ship.
On this cruise, I did not play in the casino, I had a different game - loto. The bingo game took place in the theater before the performance and was hosted by cruise director Francesco.
One ticket costs 10.00 euros, 3 tickets 20.00 euros. Three evenings in a row, after dinner and before the performance, I had a favorite pastime: playing loto. On the last evening of the cruise there was some kind of bonus: for 20.00 euros - 4 tickets.
I have a limit of money to lose, it's 50.00 euros, but this time it turned out a little more. But how much I enjoyed! Yes, it was interesting in general, for example, someone in the hall will converge the numbers horizontally, he shouts: bingo! The whole hall gasps, turns in the direction of this "lucky one" and freezes ...
Francesco sends his assistant to check this ticket, she checks, hangs up, the audience sighs with joy and relief, the game continues!
And so it was not just once. There were many jokes on the part of the cruise director, and in many languages ...the players in the hall also liked to "make fun".
As usual, there was plenty of room for photos. In addition to your photos you chose, you could buy three DVDs about the cruise, the ship and excursions there, information about this is even brought to the cabin.
On some days there were different discounts, but I didn’t really go into details, because we didn’t plan to buy back the photos, almost 15.00 euros for 1 photo, it’s expensive, and you have your own camera.
But photographers harass mercilessly everywhere ...I’m already tired of fighting with them, so as soon as they started molesting, we posed / smiled, but it didn’t go any further, we didn’t even look at the photos, because, as I mentioned above, to buy them didn't intend to.
But after the captain's reception for the members of the club, at which we still took pictures with the legendary captain, I went to see how we turned out there. And it was in the morning, I climbed all the shelves, there are no our photos, then I turned to their recipe. Immediately, with a willingness to help, 2 young men came up to me and began to look for themselves, like I didn’t find myself. I stood aside and looked at them, thinking to myself: well, well, look.
After about 15-20 minutes of a thorough search, they announced to me that the photos were not ready yet, come after 14:00.
Okay, we come with my husband together, we are looking for, again we do not find. And then I saw a girl who took pictures of us. She also recognized us, she says that the photos have been ready for a long time. I went to look for myself ...to no avail. Then I found our photos...on the computer! Okay, we chose 2 out of 6 pictures, after 18:00 they said that they would print.
After dinner they came again, and again there are no photos.
"Firemen are looking for, the police are looking for ... " and no one can find anything. Now they swear they will be ready after 11:00 pm. They came for the fourth time (it was a day at sea), searched for a long time "under the counter", finally found all 12 photos, that is, all photos in duplicate.
I selected only 2 that we liked the most, then asked if they had any discount for me, because I'm coming to them for the fourth time. Apparently they didn’t have any discounts, but it was already the last day of the cruise, tomorrow there will be a landing in Venice, and they have no hope that I will change my mind and come to pick up the rest of the photos. They conferred about something, as a result they gave me 6 photos for 35.00 euros.
Gym, hairdresser, SPA - salon.
Paid sauna, massage rooms...This time we didn't get there. All this is located on deck 14 in the bow.
Tour desk and cruise consultant.
What is located where and opening hours, all this is indicated in the daily newspaper, so it is easy to navigate.
We didn’t buy excursions on the ship, the roads were not justified, but we went there once, I don’t remember why. At that time, a girl from Ukraine worked there.
The cruise consultant, and this was Elitsa, was contacted 2 times. She is from Bulgaria herself and speaks some Russian and German, among other languages. She solves a variety of issues, everything that is somehow connected with cruises.
To be continued.. .
