Professor Melissa's Cruise Pod
Jul 24, 2026 · 19 min · 11 segments
Which MSC Sea ship is the best value and actually worth booking? In this video, we discuss MSC Seaside, MSC Seaview, MSC Seashore, and MSC Seascape, including what all four ships share, what actually…
First, let's start with what are MSC sea ships? All right, I don't love the way that they name these all because they're very confusing.
And sometimes people will ask me if I've sailed one ship and I'm like, Sally sails seashells by the seashore.
So it can get confusing.
And MSC does us no favors with the name.
Alright, there are actually four ships in this group, but they're really two generations.
So those are the original Seaside-class ships.
They were built from essentially the same design, so think of them as very close siblings.
Well, MSC then took that concept, stretched it a little bit, added a few more things, a little razzle-dazzle, and they created what it calls the Seaside EVO class.
Those ships are MSC Seashore, which launched in 2021 and I just sailed a few weeks ago, and MSC Seascape, which followed in 2022.
The word EVO stands for evolution, And that's a pretty fair description.
Seashore and Seascape, they did not abandon the original design.
They basically just expanded on them.
Now, I have personally sailed three out of these four ships, and two of them I have sailed multiple times.
The only one of these I have not sailed is Seaview.
But because Seaview and Seaside share the same basic design, I feel pretty confident comparing their physical layouts, outdoor areas, attractions, all that kind of stuff, because I have sailed on Seaview.
I can't speak for the quality of the food, the staff experience, but what I found is actually that's so inconsistent.
It's not even ship based, but it can be from sailing to sailing.
And that distinction matters because the entire point of this video is that MSC's physical product, the ships themselves, that's consistent.
It's the onboard execution that is not.
First, let's start with what are MSC sea ships? All right, I don't love the way that they name these all because they're very confusing.
And sometimes people will ask me if I've sailed one ship and I'm like, Sally sails seashells by the seashore.
So it can get confusing.
And MSC does us no favors with the name.
Alright, there are actually four ships in this group, but they're really two generations.
So those are the original Seaside-class ships.
They were built from essentially the same design, so think of them as very close siblings.
Well, MSC then took that concept, stretched it a little bit, added a few more things, a little razzle-dazzle, and they created what it calls the Seaside EVO class.
Those ships are MSC Seashore, which launched in 2021 and I just sailed a few weeks ago, and MSC Seascape, which followed in 2022.
The word EVO stands for evolution, And that's a pretty fair description.
Seashore and Seascape, they did not abandon the original design.
They basically just expanded on them.
Now, I have personally sailed three out of these four ships, and two of them I have sailed multiple times.
The only one of these I have not sailed is Seaview.
But because Seaview and Seaside share the same basic design, I feel pretty confident comparing their physical layouts, outdoor areas, attractions, all that kind of stuff, because I have sailed on Seaview.
I can't speak for the quality of the food, the staff experience, but what I found is actually that's so inconsistent.
It's not even ship based, but it can be from sailing to sailing.
And that distinction matters because the entire point of this video is that MSC's physical product, the ships themselves, that's consistent.
It's the onboard execution that is not.
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