{"id":2520,"date":"2015-01-19T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2015-01-19T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:19:23","slug":"msc-cruises-offers-guests-a-balcony-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/msc-cruises-offers-guests-a-balcony-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC Cruises offers guests a balcony boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holidaymakers looking to cruise in style this year can now grab a free Balcony cabin upgrade with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msccruises.co.uk\/uk_en\/homepage.aspx\">MSC Cruises.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSC-Cruis-ship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2521\" title=\"MSC Cruis ship\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MSC-Cruis-ship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new offer \u2013 which runs from <strong>January 22 until March 5, 2015<\/strong> \u2013 is valid on selected MSC Cruises\u2019 ships operating in the Mediterranean and comes on top of the current turn-of-year booking promotion.<\/p>\n<p>MSC Cruises executive director UK and Ireland Giles Hawke said the offer was designed to highlight the operator\u2019s exceptional Balcony cabin choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross our fleet we have the highest percentage of Balcony cabins in the market,\u201d he said. \u201cVery often regular cruisers think a Balcony cabin may be beyond their budget \u2013 but not with us! We\u2019re confident that once guests have experienced an MSC Balcony cabin they won\u2019t go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participating ships are MSC Musica and MSC Magnifica (Eastern Mediterranean, from Venice) and MSC Preziosa, MSC Fantasia and MSC Divina (Western Mediterranean, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/genoa\/\">Genoa<\/a> and La Spezia). Free upgrade applies to seven-night sailings between April 2015 and November 2015, from Outside cabin to Balcony only. Guests can upgrade from Inside cabins to Balcony cabins for an additional \u00a3100 per person.<\/p>\n<p>The free upgrade offer effectively adds an even bigger discount to MSC Cruises\u2019 WAVE promotion \u2013 cutting at least \u00a3450 per person from the brochure price.<\/p>\n<p>Sample price:\u00a0A seven-night fly-cruise aboard\u00a0MSC Fantasia, departing\u00a0<strong>April 26, 2015<\/strong>\u00a0from Genoa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/italy\/\">Italy<\/a>,\u00a0calls at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/naples\/\">Naples<\/a>, Italy; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/messina\/\">Messina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/valletta\/\">Valletta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/tunis\/\">Tunis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/barcelona\/\">Barcelona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/spain\/\">Spain<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/marseille\/\">Marseille<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/france\/\">France<\/a> and Genoa. Balcony cabins available for \u00a3649 per person. Price includes return scheduled flights from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/london\/\">London<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishairways.com\/travel\/home\/public\/en_gb\">British Airways<\/a> and transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msccruises.co.uk\/\">www.msccruises.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or call\u00a0020 3426 3010.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 MSC Cruises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holidaymakers looking to cruise in style this year can now grab a free Balcony cabin upgrade with MSC Cruises. The new offer \u2013 which runs from January 22 until March 5, 2015 \u2013 is valid on selected MSC Cruises\u2019 ships operating in the Mediterranean and comes on top of the current turn-of-year booking promotion. MSC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":4482,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[301,198,303,229,117,152,214,213,210,281,406,309,410],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-resort-france","tag-resort-genoa","tag-resort-italy","tag-resort-london","tag-resort-malta","tag-resort-marseille","tag-resort-messina","tag-resort-naples","tag-resort-sicily","tag-resort-spain","tag-resort-tunis","tag-resort-tunisia","tag-resort-valletta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}