Looking for a different way to spend Easter with your family? How about a cruise! MSC Cruises, the only cruise line in which kids sail free year-round, is offering special rates and a full week of Easter fun for kids and parents alike.
Departing Miami on April 19, 2014, MSC Divina, one of the line's newer ships, will set sail on a seven-night cruise visiting Phillipsburg, St. Maarten; Road Town, Tortola; and Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. Prices start at $299.00, per person for an interior stateroom.
This MSC Divina sailing will feature a variety of specially created “Easter themed” activities, including talent shows, Kids “Easter hunt”, costume parades at the Pantheon Theatre, pool games, line dancing, special productions with MSC dancers and artists, arts and crafts, Easter chef classes and chocolate Easter eggs, of course.
On board MSC Divina and across the fleet, guests will enjoy special Easter menus in the ships main restaurants. Guests can savor a delicious Easter Gala dinner on April 20th, featuring dishes such as swordfish and oven roasted tomato slices with thyme and, an assortment of delicious soups and salads, homemade pasta and risotto dishes, such as risotto with Swiss chard and roasted sea scallops flavored with orange, and entrees including “thyme crusted lamb chops” and “salmon steak au gratin with butter and thyme”.
Featured desserts include Italian traditional Easter Dove Cake, “Pastiera Napoletana” Neapolitan tart with cooked wheat berries, Ricotta cheese and orange blossom water and a mouth-watering Easter chocolate cake. On April 21st, guests will be treated to a special Easter lunch “La Pasquetta,” featuring traditional Italian dishes, such as “Torta Pasqualina”, a puff pastry pie filled with spinach, Ricotta cheese and egg, “Cannelloni gratinati al forno” au gratin filled with salmon and asparagus, and “Mezzemaniche con broccoletti” with broccoli in monkfish sauce with fresh basil, among many other tasty options.
In addition to the many Easter celebrations, guests on MSC Divina can enjoy a slew of exciting features unique to North American cruising. Two dining venues were created in partnership with Italian restaurant emporium Eataly. The upscale Ristorante Italia and spectacular regional steakhouse, Eataly Steakhouse, fashioned after the famed restaurant in Eataly’s Manhattan location, are now available to MSC Divina guests. MSC Divina is also the first ship to offer Aqua Cycling at sea. Also unique to the ship, is the popular Formula 1 simulator, 4-D Cinema, Infinity Pool and new Segafredo Coffee Bar.
Additional seven-night sailings available on MSC Divina in April include:
- April 12, 2014 – Sail to Falmouth, Jamaica; Georgetown, Cayman Islands; Cozumel, Mexico, and the private island of Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. Seven-nights starting at $299.00 for an interior stateroom.
- April 26, 2014 - Visit ports of Falmouth, Jamaica; Georgetown, Cayman Islands; Cozumel, Mexico; and the private island of Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. Seven-nights starting at $369.00 for an interior stateroom.
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