MSC’s new cruise ship looks like a condominium – with great views
The European-owned liner Seaside, which sails around Caribbean, is 1,060 feet (323 metres) long, has 15 passenger decks and can accommodate 5,119 guests
That boxy new ship one sees while driving across the McArthur Causeway between Miami and Miami Beach in Florida?
It’s the 5,119-passenger MSC Seaside, the newest vessel from the European cruise line MSC, which is operating all-year round in the Caribbean from Florida.
The ship, which is 1,060 feet (323 metres) long and has 15 passenger desks, has a top speed of 21.3 knots (39.4 km/h or 24.5 mph).
It joins 3,502-passenger Divina, which arrived in 2013, and a half-dozen others that MSC will bring to North America by 2020. (Three of those will be in Miami all-year round, too.)
The 10 ships now on order amount to a US$12 billion investment.
We toured the ship just after it arrived.
Along with a few, first-at-sea features, we found others executed in interesting ways.
(We didn’t sail, so we can’t comment on service or food.)
These notable features have brought it to the top of this year’s awards lists for new ships.