MSC Cruises: the full fleet, from the Yacht Club to the World class ships
Start with good news, because it is rare. On almost every fleet we carry, our list and the line's do not say the same thing: chartered ships, ships that have left, programmes we do not hold. Not here. The line presents its full fleet, we carry it in full, and not one is without a departure on our calendar. What you see on this page is the whole fleet.
What we carry, measured
It is the largest fleet on this site, and the widest spread of routes in our whole catalogue. The number of cruises currently on offer appears at the top of this page.
Where MSC Cruises comes from
MSC Cruises belongs to the MSC Group, of Geneva, owned by the Aponte family. The cruise business began in 1988 with the purchase of the liner Monterey, long after the group's original trade, which is moving freight. You can still see it in how the fleet is deployed: many ships, many basins, tight rotations.
The busiest ship, and the trap in its name
MSC World Asia is the most heavily programmed ship on our calendar, ahead of MSC World Europa. Mind the name: World Asia enters service in December 2026 and spends both winter and summer in the Western Mediterranean, out of Barcelona. World class ships carry continent names to say how far the network reaches, not where they are deployed. She runs on liquefied natural gas and plugs into shore power where the port allows it.
Two things that change life aboard
The MSC Yacht Club is a ship within the ship: a reserved quarter, key-card access, a butler, spaces closed to the rest of the ship. You can sail with two thousand five hundred people and mix with only a small part of them — it is MSC's answer for people the crowd puts off. Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, in the Bahamas, is its private island, opened in 2019 on a former industrial sand-dredging site. Like any private island, it is a beach day run by the line, not the discovery of a country.
What we will not say
What the fare covers. At MSC the formula changes from one departure, market and cabin grade to the next, and we have not measured it departure by departure. Ask your advisor for the written list of the exact departure before booking. Two other ships we carry heavily, MSC Fantasia and MSC Seaview, carry formulas that are not World Asia's.
