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MSC Cruises was founded in 1990 by its owner and Chairman, Gianluigi Aponte, and currently operates eleven vessels.  MSC Cruises features Modern Italian Architecture and design, distinctive itineraries, and attentive Italian hospitality, complete with Italian lessons.

The moment you step aboard you’ll discover a refined European ambiance, a comfortable understated elegance with impeccable décor and white glove cleanliness.  MSC Cruises has the most modern fleet in the world. The fleet cruises year round in the Mediterranean and seasonally in Northern Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, North America and Canada, South America, the Indian Ocean, South and West Africa.

MSC Cruises invites you to... Relax in their tranquil MSC Aurea Spa; savor freshly prepared Mediterranean cuisine featuring regional Italian specialties; and enjoy outstanding international entertainment night after night. All this, offered at unsurpassed value from the world’s fastest growing cruise line.

As a family-friendly cruise line, MSC Cruises cares about children and in providing a lasting and positive impact in the lives of those kids in need. It recently forged a three-year, million-dollar partnership with UNICEF to fund a community project in Brazil while increasing awareness of this cause onboard its ships. Kids 17 and younger always sail free when sailing as the third/fourth guest in stateroom.

MSC Cruises is the only company in the world to receive the “6 Golden Pearls” award from the Bureau Veritas in recognition of its high level of quality management and environmental protection.

Key Features

  • Fastest growing cruise line in the world with the youngest most modern fleet in the industry.
  • European ambiance with gracious Italian hospitality, a quiet, refined atmosphere, impeccable décor and cleanliness.
  • Italian and Mediterranean freshly prepared cuisine.
  • Outstanding onboard entertainment.
  • New VIP area, MSC Yacht Club, complete with Butler service, private lounges and pool, and complimentary beverages.
  • Kids 17 and younger always sail free as the third/fourth guest in stateroom.
  • Unique itineraries in the Caribbean, Mediterranean and Northern Europe with a wide variety of embarkation ports from which to choose.
  • MSC’s newest ships are ECO SHIPS. MSC Cruises has received awards and certificates form BUREAU VERITAS for it’s commitment to safeguarding the environment, including CLEAN-SEAS2 and CLEAN-AIR, GREEN PLANET AWARD, CIAL AWARD “COMUNI RICICLONI 2008,” and the VENICE BLUE FLAG.

Some content provided courtesy of CLIA (Cruise Line International Association)

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Piano BarIl Transatlantico Piano Bar on Fantasia

Ships in Fleet

Destinations

  • African (Southern)
  • Bahamas
  • Baltics/Russia
  • Bermuda
  • Black Sea
  • British Isles
  • Canada/New England
  • Canary Islands/Northern Africa
  • Caribbean
  • Central America
  • E. Mediterranean/Aegean
  • Europe (Western)
  • Red Sea/Suez Canal
  • Scandinavia/North Cape
  • SE Mediterranean
  • Transatlantic
  • W. Mediterranean