MSC Seascape: 52 Calls a Year, Every One on a Thursday

The MSC Seascape is the ship I see most often: 52 calls over the next twelve months, close to one a week. She tops the schedule, ahead of the Enchantment of the Seas and the Symphony of the Seas.

She is also the most regular ship I have ever tracked here.

Thursday, 52 times out of 52

Not one exception. Every call over the next twelve months falls on a Thursday, at Coxen Hole.

And the hours move no more than the day: 8am to 4pm, on all 52. The MSC World America, who held the regularity record in this file until now, manages 26 identical Mondays. This one does 52.

⚖️ I checked it was not a filling artefact before making an argument of it: not one of those 52 calls carries an estimated time.

Eight hours, and that is the shortest

Here is the fact nobody else will give you, because it only shows up when you compare ships against each other.

One hour less sounds like nothing. On a day in Roatán it is the difference between a full outing and one you have to cut short. An excursion built around nine hours does not fit inside yours, and that is the kind of detail you discover on the way back, not on the way out.

⚓ In practice, on eight hours, I aim for one thing done properly rather than three done halfway.

Her size, and a myth worth breaking

1,112 ft (339 m) long, 135 ft (41 m) wide, 19 decks of which 11 carry cabins, for a gross tonnage of about 170,412. She entered service in 2022, Seaside EVO class.

⚠️ She is the smallest and narrowest of the five ships I keep a page for: 135 ft of beam against the Icon’s 213, and 170,412 tons against 250,800. And she is the one that calls most often.

Frequency and size have nothing to do with each other. The largest cruise ship in the world calls 23 times a year; this one, 52. If you picture the most imposing ship as the one you are most likely to meet here, it is the other way round.

On capacity: 4,540 at double occupancy, up to 5,877, plus 1,648 crew.

Her only sister ship is the MSC Seashore. ⚓ She does not call at Roatán in the next twelve months.

The day in port

She has the pier to herself 12 times out of 52. The rest of the time she shares it, most often with the Symphony of the Seas, and on a median call day the port holds 10,150 cruise passengers of whom she is 45%.

The crowding calendar tells you which of the two days is waiting for you.

Where does she sail?

Seven-night round-trips from Galveston, Texas, in the Western Caribbean.

⚓ Let me be straight about what this page is good for. MSC publishes the full itinerary, better than I ever could. I have one call on that programme. What I have that they do not is what happens during that one day, from the ground, and how many hours you actually get.