If there’s one thing you need on your travel list this year, it’s a seascape. An extraordinary experience: world-class hospitality, luxury encounters, tailored itineraries, and an enchanting ambience. This season, MSC Cruises is offering you your dream holiday, where you get the opportunity to sail away on MSC Orchestra from Durban or MSC Sinfonia which will be operating exclusively out of Cape Town.
From the moment you step onboard, you will be treated to fine dining, rejuvenating spa treatments, delightful entertainment and wanderlust destinations. Sea lovers will be spoilt for choice, all while savouring each moment, creating long-lasting memories and soaking in the blue skies, glistening sea and warm sun.
Physical therapy and wellness to help you look and feel your best
If you are looking to relax and revitalise your mind and body, then the luxurious MSC Aurea Spa offers you onboard facilities and treatments that will pamper, indulge and massage you, from head to toe. The tranquil Balinese spa brings you the best of aromatherapy and acupressure to ensure the right flow of energy in your body. You can also enjoy the feel of soft saunas, pools, and saltrooms.
Amid the signature treatments is the Jean Loius David hair salon, and a barbershop, to keep you well-groomed, and looking your best while on board.
And, if you’re into health and fitness, the vessels provide a jogging track, basketball, volleyball and tennis, and a minigolf arena.
The greatest family entertainment on offer
Just as important as looking after your body and wellness is setting some time for entertainment and leisure. Get ready for a memorable experience, unimaginable fun and unparalleled entertainment when you step onboard. The cruise boasts a wide range of options – lots of live music, a theatre, a nightclub, and a casino. So, whether you’re up for a night of dancing, or an ever-changing mix of opera, ballet and drama shows, or want to try your luck at gambling, there’s something for everyone.
Other entertainment facilities onboard include a piano bar, a cigar room, a wine and cocktail bar, a library, and a shopping area.
Cruising is an ideal holiday for families, adventure playrooms and a Teen’s Club to keep children happy, social and busy. Whatever their age, the ship provides all kids with exciting activities and features, such as the video game arcade, that keep them entertained for the entire cruise.

Excite your palate with quality dining
With great entertainment often comes indulging in delicious food. Each of the onboard restaurants promise an excellent dining experience in elegant surroundings, using prime ingredients to create delicious, freshly prepared menus from the Italian, Mediterranean and international traditions. The 20-hour buffet allows you to entice your taste buds with the most diverse, quality dishes onboard a cruise.
Enjoy sophisticated menus and next-level fine-dining, whether you’re having a romantic dinner for two, brunch with your friends, or an afternoon family feast.
Unique destinations for cultural immersions
Although eating different kinds of cuisine is a great way to experience different cultures, there’s nothing quite like visiting a destination to really get a sense of a culture. Sailing with MSC Cruises you get the opportunity for a few stops at historical sites, uncontaminated nature spots, and picturesque landscapes. Discover the best cruise destinations, with a wide variety of itineraries mapped to reveal the sights, sounds and flavours of Southern Africa’s most intriguing cultures.
Experience breath-taking landscapes, from volcanoes to giant reefs of smooth, dark granite rock and soft skies and lagoons suspended in time.
You’re not only guaranteed exquisite wellness treatments, entertainment, dining and travel onboard, but health and safety too.
Give yourself, your family, or your friends the best value-for-money travel experience. MSC Orchestra and MSC Sinfonia will be offering three-, four-, and five-night cruises until April 2023, calling at both Cape Town and Durban. For more information or to book a cruise, go to www.msccruises.co.za.
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