MSC SEASHORE | The Ultimate Cruise Ship Tour
Take a full, guided tour of the MSC Seashore to see everything this MSC cruise ship has to offer. We start on deck 5 of the Seashore and work our way all the way up to deck 20 before ending with a tour of our balcony stateroom and share why we LOVED the location on the back on the ship. Along the way we'll show you the restaurants, bars, pools, entertainment, activities, and everything else that the MSC Seashore has to offer.
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Timeline:
00:00 - Welcome to the Seashore
00:52 - Deck 5
02:53 - Deck 6
05:16 - Deck 7
08:13 - Deck 8
14:11 - Deck 16
17:08 - Decks 18
19:05 - Decks 19 & 20
20:31 - Balcony Room Tour
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Music Credits:
Dan Henig / Savannah Sunshine / courtesy of the KZhead Audio Library
Text Me Records/Grandbankss / Luly / courtesy of the KZhead Audio Library
The Brothers Records / Palm Trees / courtesy of the KZhead Audio Library
Dyalla / Poolside Radio / courtesy of the KZhead Audio Library
Silent Partner / Sunday Plans / courtesy of the KZhead Audio Library
Slynk / X Ray Vision / courtesy of the KZhead Audio Library
Nebulae / A State of Mind / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
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Did anyone else experience deja vu watching this tour? 😆 Are you thinking about booking on the Seashore? Or have a MSC cruise already booked? Let us know when and what you are most excited for in the comments! If you want to see more of the waterslides, spa and Yacht Club be sure to check out this episode next: kzhead.info/sun/bLGgnJqpqoqjd3A/bejne.html Thanks for watching!
Im sailing on MSC seashore on the 1st of april, thanks for the tips and great video
Going on a 3 night cruise on it in a couple weeks. Sure wish it was at least 5 nights, lots to see.
Happy 35k subscribers. Watching with mom on her 90th birthday weekend on her 65” TV. It’s like we are on this cruise with you! Mom took a lot of cruises back in the day but nothing like this one.
Thanks, Bob. We finally figured out a way to be able to edit our massive video projects with 4K footage without bogging down our computer, so the last couple episodes (and hopefully all future episodes) will be in 4K. We hope it looks good on the 65" TV!
Excellent video!! Thank you both for taking the time to create and publish on KZhead. New cruiser here, last month went on our first. We live near Tampa now so did one of those essentially booze cruises simply to prep for our Alaskan cruise in July. Having owned larger boats forever, the cruise ship experience is what I have been looking for for twenty years. Wife can’t break away so I am doing a solo cruise on the Seashore the end of May! Your video is wonderfully helpful. I love how well organized it is and your voice is pleasant and easy to listen to. My wife loves your sun dress btw! Thanks again for your hard work, I am subscribing and looking forward to watching your precious and future videos.
Thank you so much for the kind comment! We recently did one of the Tampa "Booze Cruises" ourselves... but without a drink package 😬. We hope our video helps you make the most of your time on the Seashore! It's a massive nearly brand new ship and is a completely different experience than sailing on any of the older/smaller ships that can fit under the skyway. As long as you aren't expecting quick service or great traditional American food, I think you'll have a great time!
@@Explorcation thanks Jamie! I didn’t do the drink package either. During your video and other reading I’ve noted the service differences, although the great thing for me is I tend not to require a lot of quick service anyway. Keeps my blood pressure lower. And yeah, Grandeur of the Seas is the oldest ship in the RCI fleet, it shows but I wasn’t there for that. Likewise, after watching your video, I feel like I’ll be cruising on the opposite end of the spectrum from Grandeur. Having had no previous experience, we planned to stay aboard in Cozumel and explore the ship. By the time we got there there were no secrets. The Seashore however, wow!! Thanks for the reply!!
Fantastic tour! We're sailing on the Seashore in June and this is by far the best and most thorough ship tour I've found! Feeling so excited (and prepared) for our trip after watching. Glad to have found your channel, just subscribed and looking forward to checking out your Florida videos as well as a fellow Floridian! 🙂
Thank you so much for this incredibly kind and encouraging comment. We hope to increase our cruise related comment over then next several months and comments like these really give us the motivation to do it! We hope appreciate the sub, and we hope you enjoy our other Florida content as well.
Going in June also. So excited. Enjoy your cruise!
I sailed on it last month and had a great cruise. The private island is gorgeous. Very stable ship for smooth sailing. I would sail on it again.
It sounds like you enjoyed it just as much as we did, George. We're glad to hear you had such a great experience.
Great review, thank you. Looking forward to our cruise in May.
Our pleasure. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. We hope you have a great cruise in May... just a couple months away!
Seashore is very similar to the Seaside. Both are beautiful.
Yes, they certainly do have a lot of similarities, and we do agree that both are beautiful ships!
Love the video! You guys always bring it. That snap transition at 5:15 or so was STELLAR
Thank you so much, Bryant. Always appreciate feedback like this!
We are booked on the seashore may 26...can't wait! Great videos
Thanks so much, Carla. We hope our video helps you make the most of your cruise on the Seashore! Have a great time!
We cruised on this ship with a group of friends last January. We book the fantastica experience and we purcahsed the drinking package and wifi. We greatly enjoyed our four days cruise. The best meal was at the Mexican restaurant. The best Margarita was at the bar right across the restaurant, The overnight stay at the Ocean Cay was wonderful, but the light show was cancelled due to technical dificulties. We enjoy our cruise so much that I booked on the next cruise desk for Oct.2025. This time I booked a MSC Yatch Club cabin. We also had booked prior to this cruise a Fantastica balcony for us and a interior cabin for my mom for Oct. 2024. Watching your Seaside video before boarding the Seashore was very helpful in exploring the ship. Thank you again fro sharing your experiences
Great to hear the positive feedback on the Mexican Restaurant. That's the one place we had never really heard anyone talk about eating at, so it's great to hear a positive review! The itineraries that do an overnight on the private island are the best in our opinion, but when you're in the Yacht Club, it really doesn't matter much what the itinerary is because you'll never want to get off the ship 😂 We can't wait to hear about your future cruise experiences!
Thank you for making this video. We are Sailing on this ship in June!
Our pleasure. Thank you for watching it, and have a great cruise!
Going on the Seashore in 3 weeks and found this very helpful. This will be my first time on MSC. Thank you.
We're glad you found the video to be helpful, Michael! We hope you have a wonderful cruise on the Seashore. Three weeks will be here in no time!
Never been on a cruise but your ship tour would be so helpful to anyone planning a trip. You are so thorough and provide lots of helpful tips! Great video!
Thanks Ramune. I doubt we're convincing too many non-cruisers to get on these ships, but we hopefully are helping people prepare and get excited for their upcoming cruises. At least that's the goal!
Your video was fantastic. I like to be well informed before doing anything. So I've scoured FB groups and YT videos. This is hands down the best video for Seashore. No theatrics, just great info. And loved the snap transition.
Wow thank you so much for this incredibly kind and encouraging comment! We always try to keep our videos informational and entertaining without the drama, and we're happy to know there are people out there who appreciate that!
Thank you for making such amazing videos!!! We sail on our first MSC cruise on March 28th. Since we are celebrating our 15th anniversary, we booked the yacht club. We can't wait for the ship, cruise relaxatio, and possibility of a rocket launch before we sail away.
What a wonderful way to celebrate your 15th anniversary. We hope you enjoy the Yacht Club as much as we did! We were lucky enough to catch a rocket launch on our most recent Norwegian Cruise... we had no idea it was even happening until the captain announced it prior to sail-away. It was a pretty awesome experience, and we sure do hope you get to experience it too!
Thank you very much. Great job and very helpful.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment!
Love your show!
Thank you, Scully! Hope you've been doing well.
Thanks for the guide I’m going in September 🥳🥳🥳
Our pleasure. We hope you have an awesome time!
Going on a 7 day in 14 days c love the video
Woohoo! We hope the video helps you make the most of your cruise!
We sailed on the MSC Seashore back in the 1st week of December 2023. The ship is just beautiful, and the service was outstanding! I posted a KZhead video review of our Aurea Balcony cabin with a whirlpool on my YT Channel. We also had a walk-in closet and a bathtub in the bathroom! We will be sailing again MSC Seashore this coming December! I enjoyed your tour of the MSC Seashore! Love that ship!
Nice! Of all the cruises we've been on I think we've only had a bathtub once... and I can't even remember for sure which ship it was on. We may just have to book an Aurea balcony on our next MSC Cruise. We hope you have another great one in December!
That was fun! Another wonderful cruise video...I always enjoy them. As another commenter said, this ship looks a bit too frenetic for me. All the levels and shops and people, oh, my! I would love to see Ocean Cay during the night, though, so I would definitely consider doing an MSC cruise during school days if the ship docked overnight there. I am booked for a May cruise on Virgin Voyages Valiant Lady and am very excited about that! Would love to see y'all do a tour of one of the VV ships. Thanks, again, y'all, for a fun cruise tour! 🙂
Thanks, Rhonda. Yeah, that ship can feel a bit chaotic at times, especially when there are a lot of kids on board. That said, we're getting to know all the ins and outs of these ships by now and are able to avoid the crowds for the most part. We're so happy to hear you booked a cruise! We definitely have plans to sail on Virgin Voyages someday. Once we are confident that the revenue from the videos we make on the ship will at least match the cost of the cruise, we'll be on one!
Please do some whats new St Petes soon! Those are byfar my favorite!
Thanks for this feedback, Teresa. I think we'll have another one coming out within the next month or so.
Did you mean to say March 23 for your next video? Sailing on the Seashore in June- can’t wait! Ocean Cay is by far our favorite!
Yes thank you so much, Kristen. You are right, it should have read March 23. We've made the correction. We hope you have a wonderful time sailing on the Seashore in June!
Hi Jaime and Skylar Thank you for making these awesome videos. I greatly appreciate your efforts and creativity. I really enjoy watching them. Quick question, when you booked with MSC this time, did you receive an email from them again with the offer to bid for upgrade for Yacht Club? I know that’s how you got into YC last time. I’m just curious if MSC excluded you to bid again this time since you were previously successful through bidding for YC last time. Is it one and done with? Thanks for your time.
Thank you so much for the kind and encouraging comment. Yes, we did get an email regarding bidding on the Yacht Club, and once again, we did put in a bid. This time; however, our bid was not accepted. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!
Regarding the drinks package, it's important to recall whether taxes are charged on beverages when the ship is docked at an island for the day. If you opt for a drink, try to remember if there's an additional tax applied or something similar. or its only when you leave the first day of the trip ? thank you.. :)
Thanks for the taking the time to share this tip.
Wonderful job as always! You might actually convince me to try MSC again :) My big question is this. How much of a letdown was it not having all the amenities of the Yacht Club available to you as compared to your last MSC cruise? Did you feel...left out?
Thanks, Dan... and great question. We honestly we quite worried that our most recent cruise was going to seem pretty terrible in comparison, so we were mentally prepared and were telling ourselves that this one was just a "work trip". But honestly we still enjoyed the cruise much more than we thought we would (even without the drink package). But I think for us, any day that we're not sitting at a desk all day is a good day!
@@ExplorcationThose of us who follow you really appreciate all the work you two put into these videos. Looking forward to the dining video!
This will be our 1st MSC cruise. What can we expect as surprise charges? We have the drink package. Carnival we had drink packages plus paid tips upfront. We still ended up with a few hundred dollars in charges on my credit when we got back to port
We've never had any charges on our card other than gratuities on our MSC cruises, other than drinks the one time we didn't have the drink package. That said, I'd still check your balance the morning before you leave the ship to make sure you don't have any extra charges on it. You should be able to view all your charges on the stateroom TV. If you do see any charges you don't recognize, try to get it taken care of at the customer service desk.
I heard there was free soft serve ice cream at venchi around the side that no one really knows. True or not true? Also do we have to do something to connect our credit card? I heard people say something about issues getting off because they did not do something. What do we have to do? We sail in June.
Now that you say that, I think we may have heard something about that as well, but I don't think we ever actually went around the side to look for it. I (Jamie) was able to consistently get soft service ice cream in the main buffet though. There was always a line for it, and it was always good!
We are planning to sail on her in Dec. Just really worried about the food.
We'll have an MSC episode coming out on Saturday specifically discussing our dining experiences on Seashore. We really hope you find it helpful!
Is the water in Pirate Cove heated? Thank you
It felt pretty chilly (but refreshing) to us. Our guess is that it is not heated, but we don't know for sure. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
I know the ship doesn't have a cigar lounge, but where are the smoking areas?
Yes, there was an outdoor smoking area (at least one) that we remember.
Did I see this already?
No... but we certainly understand why you may think so😂. We actually address it in 5:38 of the video, in case you missed that part! We experienced some major deja vu for sure!
This does not look like a vacation to me. Too much stress just trying to get from one place to another. 😂
I think a lot of people feel that way with these massive ships, and understandably so! That's a big part of the reason why we make these tour videos... to help people know there way around a little bit before they ever step foot on the ship!
Does this ship have a teen club(
Yes, we're pretty sure it did.
Did this ship have a teen club?
Yes, we believe so.
Sorry but I just got off the seashore I can’t disagree more. My happiest day was when we got on and when we got off. So basically it was my first and last time on MSc. The closet is small, there is no self service laundry facilities. The MSC for Me app sucks. Web check in needs redesign. The bar service was slow. The buffet was the same every day. Plus whose idea was it to put Guest Services where the main Atrium is located it was so loud you had to yell at the rep.
Sorry to hear about your experience Roger. We do agree that the app leaves a bit to be desired, and that the location of the guest service desk does present from challenges. We also have experienced better bar service on other cruise lines. That said, when the price is considered, we found this to be one of the best value ships we've ever sailed on and would absolutely sail on it again. We are curious to hear which cruise line and ships you enjoy most though, as we do plan on booking a few more cruises in 2024.
I have cruised Princess, Carnival, NCL, Holland America, Cunard QM2. For me and my wife Princess Cruise out shines them all. The medallion that they have now works great. I like the Hi Roger whenever I walk up to the bar or any of the dinning rooms, and it will unlock your cabin door when you walk up to it. The check in procedure is easy and does a whole lot more. It took me several tries to get my security picture taken only to have them take it again at the port. Look I understand that people want value for their dollars. I get it, but for me I feel like I wasted 3 grand. Here one more thing my son and his family joined us on the cruise. No one told him that when you attached your CC to the kids Cruise card that you need to set a limit for their spending and you only do that at Guest Services. His final bill for a 7 day cruise came to 1800.00.
@@rogeryannett7212 WOW... I think we might be done cruising with MSC if we had that experience as well... putting a limit on the kids card is a really good tip that we'll be sure to share with those sailing with kids on MSC. And thanks for sharing about your cruise experience with Princess. We've sailed Celebrity a few times (which we hear is on par with Princess) and loved it, but have been itching to sail on Princess for a while now. We're definitely even more motivated to finally get on a Princess ship after hearing about that medallion. It sounds wonderful.
MSC is not for me. After 50+ cruises we just went on our first and last on MSC
We definitely understand that it's not for everyone Doug. We recently went on a similarly priced Carnival cruise. The Carnival ship was much older, smaller, and there were a LOT of things we missed about sailing on one of the newer MSC ships. That said, the service was great compared to our MSC cruises, and we loved the made to order tacos and burgers and the variety of live music available around the ship. It just reminds us that every cruise line/ship has their pros and cons, and which cruise line is better all depends on where your priorities lie!
I liked your videos, however what I really don’t like is that each video your voice is like Siri, just doesn’t sound natural. No bad intentions, I like your videos, but just hope you can change this. Thanks
What's your beef with Siri? 😂 Just kidding. We always appreciate honest feedback. Thanks for watching!
There's nothing people won't bitch about
The very worst cruise I have ever been on, sorry to say!!!
Sorry to hear about your experience. If you don't mind us asking, what made it so bad?
@shirleycompitello3167 - can you say why?
Why? I see people randomly drop comments like this about MSC and it's starting to make me feel like these people have an agenda against MSC