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MSC Divina will not come to the Med in 2016
MSC Cruises will deploy MSC Divina from Miami year-round in 2016.
The 3,502-guest MSC Divina had been set to return to Europe again in April 2016, but instead will stay at its Miami home port.
Its planned western Mediterranean programme will now be operated by the 3,274-passenger MSC Fantasia.
The itinerary, which begins in Genoa, Italy, features seven ports in seven days – Cannes, France; Palma, Majorca; Barcelona, Spain; the newly-added port of Ajaccio, Corsica; Naples, Italy; La Spezia, Italy; and Genoa.
In turn, the scheduled summer 2016 Northern Europe itineraries of MSC Fantasia to the Baltic Capitals will now be operated by MSC Musica
From Miami, MSC Divina will offer 24 seven-night itineraries throughout summer 2016 to multiple Caribbean ports.
The week-long ‘butterfly’ cruises will alternate between MSC Divina’s traditional western Caribbean route and the eastern Caribbean, allowing guests to create longer 14-night voyages.
The decision comes only a month after MSC Cruises revealed that MSC Seaside, the first of its next generation, under-construction ‘Seaside’ class of ships, will also sail year-round from Miami to the Caribbean from November 2017.
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