MSC Cruises opens sales for winter...

Season includes Arabian Gulf and Red Sea itineraries among 150 global sailings

MSC Cruises has opened sales for the first batch of its winter 2024-25 season sailings.

The upcoming season will see six ships serving the Caribbean Sea and MSC Cruises’ flagship MSC Euribia operating for the first time in the Middle East.

In the Arabian Gulf, the line’s newest flagship MSC Euribia will make her regional debut in Dubai, departing on seven-night sailings to two other UAE destinations, Abu Dhabi and Sir Bani Yas Island, as well as Doha in Qatar and Manama in Bahrain.

In the Red Sea, MSC Musica will offer seven-night sailings from Safaga, Egypt stopping at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Aqaba (for Petra) in Jordan; Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt, and Sokhna Port for the country’s capital Cairo before returning to Safaga with an opportunity to visit Luxor.

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Other itineraries include:

NORTH AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

MSC Meraviglia will operate from New York with a range of seven to 11 night itineraries to Port Canaveral for Orlando, Nassau in the Bahamas and MSC Cruises’ private island Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve.
MSC Seascape will sail every Saturday from Miami with either seven-night cruises to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Ocean Cay or to Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Mexico and Ocean Cay.
MSC Seaside every Sunday will offer seven-night voyages from Miami, alternating between the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic or Mexico, Honduras or Belize, and the Bahamas.
MSC Divina will also be based in Miami and offer an array of three to 10-night itineraries, all including calls to Ocean Cay. Longer sailings will take guests to Jamaica, Aruba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
MSC Seashore will homeport in Port Canaveral for three- to four- night mini cruises to the Bahamas, including calls at Ocean Cay, and also sail 7-night voyages with additional stops in Cozumel and Costa Maya in Mexico.
MSC Virtuosa will homeport in Fort-de-France, Martinique and embark on back-to-back seven-night itineraries including Guadeloupe, the Virgin Islands, St. Maarten, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Saint Vincent & The Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada, and Saint Lucia.

NORTHERN EUROPE

MSC Preziosa will operate seven-night voyages every Sunday from Hamburg, Germany with calls at Zeebrugge for Bruges and Brussels in Belgium; Rotterdam, Le Havre for Paris and Southampton for London. Additionally, one 21-night long cruise from Southampton will visit the Canary Islands, Madeira and Morocco.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

MSC World Europa will sail every Sunday from Genoa for a seven-night voyage with calls at Civitavecchia for Rome, Messina in Sicily, Valletta, Malta; Barcelona, Spain and Marseille, France.

The line will soon provide details for its winter 2024-25 sailing programmes in South America, Southern Africa and the Far East.

For more information, visit www.msccruises.com