Sarah Bretz, ContributorMSC Cruises’ summer 2025 voyages are now open for booking. The line will offer sailings in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and northern Europe, with lots of embarkation ports and itineraries to choose from.
Caribean
Setting the stage for an exciting summer, the brand-new MSC World America will sail her inaugural season in the Caribbean from MSC’s new terminal at PortMiami. Offering seven-night cruises, World America will call to destinations in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Honduras. Sailings will also include a visit to MSC’s private island in the Bahamas, Ocean Cay.
Also sailing from PortMiami will be MSC Seascape, offering three and four-night cruises to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman.
MSC Seashore will sail from Port Canaveral on three to seven-night itineraries, with visits to destinations including Ocean Cay, Nassau, Roatán, Costa Maya, and Cozumel.
MSC Meraviglia will offer seven-night sailings out of New York City with calls to Port Canaveral, Ocean Cay, and Nassau.
Mediterranean
From Barcelona
Homeporting in Barcelona, MSC Seaview will operate seven-night cruises with visits to Cannes, Genoa, La Spezia (for Cinque Terre and Florence), Civitavecchia (for Rome), and Palma de Mallorca.
Also from Barcelona, MSC Seaside will offer seven-night cruises with calls to La Goulette (Tunisia), Palerma, Naples, Livorno (for Florence and Pisa), and Marseille (for Provence).
From May until October, MSC Magnifica will sail from Barcelona on seven-night cruises to destinations including Marseille, La Spezia, Naples, Palermo, and Malta.
From Genoa
MSC Grandiosa will offer an exciting vacation with seven-night itineraries to Civitavecchia, Palermo, Marseille, Ibiza, and Valencia.
Meanwhile, MSC World Europa will explore some of Europe’s most famed cities with seven-night cruises to Naples, Messina, Valletta, Barcelona, and Marseille.
A longer itinerary option will be available on MSC Musica, which will visit Marseille, Malaga and Cadiz (for Seville), as well as Lisbon, Alicante (for Costa Blanca), Mahon (for Menorca), and Olbia (for Sardinia).
From Valencia
Offering seven-night sailings from Valencia, MSC Splendida will call at destinations including Livorno, Civitavecchia, Genoa, Marseille, and Tarragona.
From Civitavecchia
MSC Divina will offer seven-night cruises to explore the extraordinary wonders of Greece with calls in Mykonos and Santorini, as well as other beautiful destinations including Kusadasi (for Ephesus) and Naples.
MSC Orchestra will offer a seven-night itinerary to Genoa, Marseille, Barcelona, Ibiza, and Cagliari in Sardinia.
From Venice-Marghera
MSC Lirica, MSC Armonia, and MSC Opera and will offer seven-night itineraries out of Venice-Marghera, with each ship visiting varied destinations, ranging from breathtaking cities in Italy to the idyllic Greek islands, such as Mykonos, Santorini, Syros, and Corfu. MSC Lirica will also call in the famed old town of Kotor, while MSC Armonia will call in the beautiful seaside town of Split and MSC Opera in the cities of Dubrovnik and Zadar.
From Trieste
Offering nine-night itineraries out of Trieste, MSC Fantasia will visit unforgettable destinations including Katakolon (for Olympia), Piraeus, Corfu, Kusadasi, Istanbul, and Bari.
From Bari
MSC Sinfonia will offer guests spectacular seven-night voyages from Bari to places such as Santorini, Piraeus (for Athens), Katakolon, Corfu, and Cefalonia (for Argostoli).
Northern Europe
One of MSC’s newest ships, MSC Euribia, will sail seven-night itineraries from Kiel, Germany to Denmark’s capital city of Copenhagen. The ship will then venue to the Norwegian fjords, with stops in the Heritage Fjords in the picturesque area of Hellesylt/Geiranger, Alesund, and a scenic sail through Nordfjordeid or Molde Fjord on the way to Flaam village.
MSC Virtuosa will homeport in Southampton, UK, offering two to 14-night itineraries to the fjords, the Northern Pearls cities, the Canary Islands, the Atlantic coast of Europe, and the Mediterranean.
Those looking for a slightly longer cruise can opt for MSC Preziosa from Hamburg, Germany with voyages between 10 and 14 nights. These sailings will allow guests to discover the beauty of Norway including the fjords, Honningsvag, and Tromsø or Iceland cruises with overnight stays in Reykjavik, Isafjordur, Akureyri, as well as the Orkney and Shetland Islands in the United Kingdom. Other itineraries will highlight the Emerald Isle with calls to Cork, Belfast, Liverpool, and Greenock (for Glasgow).
MSC Poesia will set sail from Warnemunde, Germany from May 2025, offering a rotation of seven-night fjords and Baltic sailings to destinations such as Stavanger/Lysefijord, Eidfjord, Kristiansand, and Oslo, Norway and Copenhagen on the fjords route and Gdynia/Gdansk-Danzig, Klaipeda, Riga, Stockholm, and Copenhagen on the Baltic route.
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