MSC Magnifica Day 1 – The Arrival and Evening

The day started off in the late morning by heading off to work to catch the bus for going to Edinburgh Airport to head over to Southampton airport to catch the showcase cruise of MSC Magnifica, the bus left around 12pm with one more pick-up before heading to the Airport.

We spent about an hour and a half at Edinburgh Airport before catching our flight which ended up slightly delayed.

The flight it’s self only took around an hour which was not bad at all.

We then arrived at Southampton airport waiting for the bags which seemed to take forever and then got on to the coach and headed over to the dock’s to go onto the ship.

When we got around the bend and saw the ship, the very first impression I got was that she is such a lovely ship and very very well designed.

We then had to go into the Cruise Terminal to check-in for the cruise before we could board the ship, there was a very big que to check into the ship but then with allot of people there it was still not to bad but do think that they could of done with allot more staff to check everyone in.

After checking in which only took about 5 mins when we got to the desk we were then able to board the ship that is after we had to go through security.

After we got onto the ship we went straight to the room and even had a porter who showed us to the room and carried the case! (very nice touch!)

After dumping the bags, I then headed down to the Tiger Bar for a drink while waiting to go into the Theatre for a Awards Presentiation by my work, we then got into the theatre and at the door had my hand shook by the Managing Director of Sales for the company I work in!

We were in the theatre for about an hour and after that headed upt o the cabin (Cabin 12022) to get ready for the evening meal and cocktail reception.

The cabin we had was a inside cabin which was very large in size which I found very good!

After this we then headed down to the Topazio Bar for some pre-dinner drinks and cocktails and then it was onto the Restaurant ‘L Edera’ for our dinner and my table was 568.

After dinner we had time to head off for a night to our self, where I went to some of the bars for more drinks as well as onto the disco.

During the whole time of the visit onto MSC Magnifica all drinks were free including the mini-bar we had in the room, i took the time as well to get some nice pics of the top deck in the dark!

More pictures and Day 2 Review will be posted soon.

As I posted earlier as well you can see all the photo’s I took in full at: http://bit.ly/beZdJR