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MSC Lirica <------ Click for MSC Cruises MSC Lirica Cruise Ship page
MSC Italian Cruises Maiden Voyage 2003 Capacity 1,590 Passengers Ship Size 58,600 Tonnage 10/17/2012

MSC Lirica Stateroom

MSC Armonia MSC Divina MSC Fantasia MSC Lirica MSC Magnifica MSC Melody MSC Musica MSC Opera MSC Orchestra MSC Poesia MSC Sinfonia MSC Splendida

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Carnival Fantasy
Carnival Fascination
Carnival Freedom
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Carnival Legend
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Celebration
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Columbus
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Costa Atlantica
Costa Classica
Costa Concordia
Costa Deliziosa
Costa Fascinosa
Costa Favolosa
Costa Fortuna
Costa Luminosa
Costa Magica
Costa Marina
Costa Mediterranea
Costa Pacifica
Costa Romantica
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Costa Tropicale
Costa Victoria
Costa Voyager
Crown Princess
Crystal Harmony
Crystal Serenity
Crystal Symphony
Dawn Princess
Deutschland
Diamond Princess
Disney Dream
Disney Fantasy
Disney Magic
Disney Wonder
Emerald Princess
Empress of the Seas
Enchantment of the Seas
Eurodam
Europa
Explorer of the Seas
Freedom of the Seas
Galaxy
Golden Princess
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Horizon
Independence of the Seas
Insignia
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Island Princess
Island Star
Jewel of the Seas
Jubilee
Kapitan Khlebnikov
Legacy
Legend of the Seas
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Maasdam
Mandalay
Majesty of the Seas
Marco Polo
Marina
Mariner of The Seas
Mercury
Monarch of the Seas
MSC Armonia
MSC Divina
MSC Fantasia
MSC Lirica
MSC Magnifica
MSC Melody
MSC Musica
MSC Opera
MSC Orchestra
MSC Poesia
MSC Serenata
MSC Sinfonia
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Rhapsody of the Seas
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Ruby Princess
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Splendour of the Seas
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Sun Princess
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Superstar Libra
Superstar Virgo
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Thomson Dream
Thomson Majesty
Thomson Spirit
Veendam
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Vision of the Seas
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Our inside stateroom, 8149, shown in photos below, felt much roomier than we expected. This was probably due to the use of mirrors. We were pleased about that. The bathroom was also a bit larger than expected. However, the shower was a bit small, but expected. The storage space was less than most other cruises we have taken, but expected. The stateroom had a safe behind the mirror above your desk, & it also had a minibar (price list shown in images below). A laundry price list was in our stateroom (see below for images of it). We used the electric socket above the desk for our electric shaver, our toothbrush charger, recharging my camera batteries, & our blow dryer. For some reason, our travel companions, Lorraine & Ed, our cousins, had a much noticeably brighter room, 8137. We guess it was the use of brighter bulbs. We joked with them each time we saw them leaving the room wearing sunglasses. All in all, we were happy with our stateroom.

When you boarded, you were given a cruise ID card to go on & off the ship, for any shipboard purchases, & as a key to enter your stateroom. The cruise ID had your assigned dining room seat and your stateroom number on it. We did not like the idea of having your stateroom number on the card because if you lost it, someone would know to which stateroom it gained entrance (hotels generally never have the stateroom number on a key or a magnetic key card for this reason).

MSC has a $2.50 PER ITEM charge for room service which does not include breakfast. We asked both agents if this $2.50 charge was intended as a tip and they said no.   Note, the $2.50 may be removed from the room service charge on the next cruises.   "Your Beach Towel" info sheet was in our stateroom as we arrived (image below). Instead of supplying towels at the pool & at the gangway as you went ashore, MSC is supplying them in your room (blue towels) and replacing them with clean ones as the are used. This requires you to make sure you find your cabin steward if you are going to the pool more than once during the day, or just using the wet towel. In addition, MSC says in the info sheet "Please do not leave the towel at the pool, as towels will be replaced on a one-for-one basis." We wonder if they enforced this on anyone? Of course, this would mean if you left your towel at the pool (or ashore), you would not have one for the remainder of the cruise. We do not believe this was a problem, though, because when we asked for a 2nd towel from Thierry (on days when we used the pool more than once), we did not always exchange the wet for the dry one (the wet towel was sometimes in our room). We talked to someone who just came back from a Voyager of the Seas cruise, & they said they generally had the same towel situation as we did.

Coming out of the stateroom, we often would be headed for the upper decks. One of the four sets of elevators (one of the two in the middle of the ship), only went to the 9th floor. We occasionally got caught by that one & had to go to another.   We noticed on all stateroom decks, the stateroom attendant's practice of unlocking & opening the stateroom doors (& leaving them slightly ajar, sometimes wide open), even though no stateroom attendant was necessarily in them, until they had cleaned the stateroom.

MSC Lirica Stateroom Photos        Click on thumbnail to enlarge
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