Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin At every meal, MSC Yacht Club Waiter John Carlo Driz, left, and Head Waiter Joseph Mathew Calicdan, ...
[+] right, encouraged us to take the moment and taste it. Lois Alter Mark As one of the thousands of Americans to make the trip to Europe to see Taylor Swift this summer, I highly recommend all concertgoers do what my friends and I did and take advantage of the time abroad. Lucky enough to score tickets to see her in Edinburgh, we decided – since we were already paying for international flights – to make the most of it and add on a seven-night MSC cruise from Southampton.
This way, we could spend more time together, fly home from Heathrow (”So Long, London”), which was less expensive, and also get to visit Norway, Denmark and Brussels, enjoying the comfort and convenience of MSC’s Yacht Club as our home base. Honestly, we didn’t care as much about the itinerary as the ship itself because, as anyone who has seen the Eras Tour will tell you, it’s hard to just go back home after being part of this historic experience, especially if you’ve traveled thousands of miles to get there. We had sailed on MSC World Europa last year and found it so relaxing, we once again booked the Yacht Club (MSC’s luxurious ship within a ship) — this time, on MSC Virtuosa.
We knew we wanted a lot of down time, where we could just hang out on our adjoining balconies and rehash every minute of the concerts over drinks and snacks. .
