All joking aside that does not sound right. Should be time on ship for each of you.. Right? Check with them.We love MSC. We have done 11 cruises with them and have two more booked. All of our cruises with them are Caribbean but that is fine with us. Last cruise with MSC Jan/Feb 2020 I found that I am now Diamond but hubby is not, found that is due to me being the one paying for everything, guess we need to put his card on the next cruise.
we did check once on board and it is correct. the reason is MSC counts how much money you spend on board and 100% of our spending is mine as we use a credit card under my name for all purchases, his and mine so I became Diamond.All joking aside that does not sound right. Should be time on ship for each of you.. Right? Check with them.
So next time you're in a suite and he sails in steerage............we did check once on board and it is correct. the reason is MSC counts how much money you spend on board and 100% of our spending is mine as we use a credit card under my name for all purchases, his and mine so I became Diamond.
"... those who are vaccinated and those who are not are treated differently and only fully vaccinated guests are allowed to do and go to certain places. I’ve also heard that those who are not fully vaccinated are treated poorly and verbally abused by other guests..."
What a well thought out response, Walter.....thank you.As relates to MSC USA, MSC does marginalize anti-vaxers but it's only because they've been pushed in to a corner by Florida's governor with threats of lawsuits if they tried enforcing a vaccine requirement (which in my opinion, is the only true and logical way to resume cruising, especially since 1/3 of the country has made refusing to get vaccinated a battle cry.)
But the kinds of things that differentiate a vaxer from an anti-vaxing passenger are a) requiring testing, which is a minor compromise for people who don't wish to make others' health a priority, b) traveling in an "excursion bubble" which means you only go where the guide goes. No dining at restaurants, no shopping in the stores, and c) a compulsory Covid insurance purchase (vaxers get the coverage for free in the US.
All of those things might seem like a pain in the butt, the alternative - being banned from boarding, is worse. But again, you're hearing this from someone who doesn't believe anti-vaxers should be allowed on any cruise ships.
As far as verbal abuse from other passengers, that would only be anecdotal and you would have to just take peoples' word for it. I don't. Again, we're talking about people who have taken an aggressive, confrontational, oppositional stance against cooperating with a Covid protocol. So they would be more suspect, in my opinion for being abusive than people who just go with the program and try to have a cruise without any drama.
I think you want to know if you will be allowed to board. No one here can answer that for you. Check with your cruise line.Hi ! We have a cruise booked on september 11th from Barcelona. We booked the trip on the US website since we live half of the year in Florida, but are canadien residents. We will be travelling from Canada. Will we be allowed boarding since right now only US en Shengan residents are allowed until august 31?