- Two MSC Cruises’ ships depart on world cruise itineraries at the moment – an {industry} first
- Cruise Line welcomes over 5,000 visitors for a journey around the globe on board MSC Magnifica and MSC Poesia
- Cruise Line additionally reveals culinary spotlight with line-up of award-winning cooks who’ve created menus to showcase the easiest of their respective cuisines
COURTESY MSC Cruises: Geneva, Switzerland – January 5, 2023 – MSC Cruises, the world’s third largest and quickest rising cruise model wished bon voyage to visitors aboard MSC Poesia and MSC Magnifica at the moment as the 2 ships departed from Genoa, Italy for simultaneous world cruises – an {industry} first.
Sailing collectively for the beginning of the cruises, the 2 ships will half methods on the fringe of the Mediterranean for various routes across the globe. Guests will uncover the world with out having to repack their suitcase throughout an unforgettable 119-day voyage on board MSC Magnifica and 117-day journey on board MSC Poesia.
World voyage on board MSC Magnifica
Starting in Barcelona with stops in Lisbon, Funchal, Mindelo, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia, Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, Valparaiso, Arica, Callao, Hanga Roa, Bounty Bay Passage , Papeete, Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Cruising Milford Sound, Hobart, Sydney, Mare, Lifou Island, Port Vila, Alotau, Cairns, Darwin, Lombok, Benoa, Singapore, Port Klang, Colombo, Mumbay, Salalah, Aqaba, Suez Canal South, Suez Canal North, Civitavecchia, Genoa, Marseille
World voyage on board MSC Poesia
Starting in Barcelona with stops in Palma de Mallorca, Siracusa, Valletta, Limassol, Haifa, Port Said, Alexandria, Suez Canal North, Suez Canal South, Sharm El-Sheikh, Safaga, Aqaba, Jeddah, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Port Victoria, Port Louis, La Possession, Portuguese Island, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Walvis Bay, Jamestown, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belem, Fazendinha, Manaus, Santarem, Castries, Bridgetown, Fort de France, Puerto Plata, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, Miami, New York, Newport, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, Quebec, Nuuk, Isafjordur, Reykjavik, Belfast, Liverpool, Southampton, Le Havre, Ijmuiden, Warnemunde
~2024: Jan 4th 121 Night – World voyage on board MSC Poesia
Starting in Civitavecchia with stops in Genoa, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Siracusa, Valletta, Limassol, Haifa, Port Said, Alexandria, Suez Canal North, Suez Canal South, Sharm El-Sheikh, Safaga, Aqaba, Jeddah, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Port Victoria, Port Louis, La Possession, Portuguese Island, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Walvis Bay, Jamestown, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belem, Fazendinha, Manaus, Santarem, Castries, Bridgetown, Fort de France, Puerto Plata, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, Miami, New York, Newport, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, Quebec, Nuuk, Isafjordur, Reykjavik, Belfast, Liverpool, Southampton, Le Havre, Ijmuiden, Warnemunde
Guests will go to among the world’s most spectacular locations throughout their cruise whereas discovering worldwide culinary delights. On high of the high-quality, worldwide eating choices that MSC Cruises’ visitors have come to anticipate, these crusing the 2023 world cruises can expertise one thing further particular with menus crafted by a lineup of award-winning cooks.
These cooks will be a part of the cruises at numerous instances to organize a whole multi-course menu, every showcasing the easiest of their respective cuisines from around the globe.
-On board each ships: Veteran Brazilian Chef and Restauranteur Allan Vila Espejo will serve a menu together with genuine Manioc soup and Bahia-style fish stew with candy peppers and coconut milk
-On board MSC Magnifica: Renowned Peruvian Chef James Berckemeyer will serve a spectacular menu together with Peruvian veal cheek and native caramel pudding ‘Suspiro de Lucuma’
-On board MSC Poesia: Internationally famend Japanese-American Chef Roy Yamaguchi will serve a standout menu together with grilled teriyaki pork chop with Hawaiian chimichurri
-On board MSC Poesia: Michelin-starred Swedish chef, TV character and writer Niklas Ekstedt will serve dishes impressed by pure substances and his farm-to-ocean ethos
To add to the distinctive culinary expertise, the cooks may also be readily available to greet visitors in particular person as they style their delicacies within the ship’s principal eating places.
MSC Cruises has additionally fastidiously crafted a particular enrichment program that includes ice carving, champagne tasting, a variety of visitor lectures on specialist matters, greater than 30 full-scale manufacturing exhibits, visitor entertainers, dance courses, language faculties and extra.
Guests wishing to discover far and huge in 2023 can e book the final remaining cabins for shorter segments of the MSC World Cruises 2023.
Cabins are nonetheless accessible for the 2024 MSC World Cruise as effectively, with a surprising new itinerary that features 52 superb locations in 31 completely different international locations spanning the Mediterranean, Red Sea, South Africa, South America, Caribbean, USA & Canada, earlier than returning to Europe through Greenland and Iceland.
One of the standout options of the 2024 world cruise is a section that explores the Brazilian Amazon through the mighty Amazon River.
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About MSC Magnifica
Guests aboard MSC Magnifica journey in consolation and magnificence. Built in 2009, the ship boasts masterful design and relaxed refinement with all of the options that distinguish any MSC Cruises ship. MSC Magnifica contains one of many highest ratios of balcony cabins, contemporary and genuine eating choices throughout 4 eating places and 11 bars, trendy and cozy cabins, a variety of leisure and leisure actions, and a swimming pool with sliding roof—all mixed with prime quality service. From the gourmand eating places serving delicacies ready with contemporary substances to the wide range of world class leisure choices together with a full-scale on line casino, panoramic evening membership, cigar lounge, 4D cinema and way more—visitors will really feel the eye to element that could be a trademark for MSC Cruises.
About MSC Poesia
Guests will journey in model and luxury on board MSC Poesia – MSC Cruises’ “poem to the beauty of the sea.” On board, visitors will enter a refined world of consolation with elegant design. There is a lot to please in, from the spectacular lobby waterfall to the Zen Garden, genuine Japanese Sushi bar and opulent MSC Aurea Spa wellness middle with steam room, sauna with a tempting vary of remedies. For the extra energetic, there’s a basketball and tennis courtroom, shuffleboard, state-of-the-art gymnasium and mini golf space. Three swimming swimming pools, 4 whirlpools and a large poolside cinema display spherical out the ship’s choices.
About MSC Cruises
MSC Cruises is the world’s third largest cruise model in addition to the market chief in Europe, South America, the Gulf area and Southern Africa. It can be the quickest rising world cruise model with a robust presence within the Caribbean, North America and the Far East markets.
Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, MSC Cruises is without doubt one of the two manufacturers that sit inside the Cruise Division of MSC Group, the world’s main and privately held delivery and logistics conglomerate with over 300 years of maritime heritage. MSC Cruises – the up to date model – has a contemporary fleet of 21 vessels mixed with a sizeable future world funding portfolio of latest vessels, terminals and different property. The fleet is projected to develop to 23 cruise ships by 2025, with choices for six extra vessel orders in place by way of 2030.
MSC Cruises gives its visitors an enriching, immersive and secure cruise expertise impressed by the Company’s European heritage, the place they will take pleasure in worldwide eating, world-class leisure, award-winning household packages, and the very newest user-friendly expertise on board.
The line’s primary precedence has at all times been the well being and security of its visitors and crew, in addition to the communities on the locations its ships serve. In August 2020, MSC Cruises applied a brand new complete and sturdy well being and security protocol to develop into the primary main line to return to sea.
MSC Cruises has lengthy been dedicated to environmental stewardship, with a long-term objective to attain web zero emissions for its operations by 2050. The Company can be a big investor in next-generation environmental marine applied sciences, with the target to help their accelerated growth and availability industry-wide.
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~2024: Jan 4th 121 Night – World voyage on board MSC Poesia
Starting in Civitavecchia with stops in Genoa, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Siracusa, Valletta, Limassol, Haifa, Port Said, Alexandria, Suez Canal North, Suez Canal South, Sharm El-Sheikh, Safaga, Aqaba, Jeddah, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Port Victoria, Port Louis, La Possession, Portuguese Island, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Walvis Bay, Jamestown, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belem, Fazendinha, Manaus, Santarem, Castries, Bridgetown, Fort de France, Puerto Plata, Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, Miami, New York, Newport, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, Quebec, Nuuk, Isafjordur, Reykjavik, Belfast, Liverpool, Southampton, Le Havre, Ijmuiden, Warnemunde
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